I like to picture that there are an infinite number or realities, all running in parallel. The entirety of my existence, everything I have ever known is but one of these. I represent a single point on this infinite line.…
Although this idea/piece is a couple of years old now, I realized I’ve not written about it in any detail (although I have talked about it on several occasions). So this is that. But more than that, I want to…
The Black Box project is a project that involves Pierre Alexandre Tremblay on bass/electronics, Patrick Saint-Denis on robotics/electronics, Sylvain Pohu on guitar/electronics, and myself on drums It’s a four-way collaboration that has gone through two residencies (in Montreal and Huddersfield), to work out…
dfscore 2.0 is here! dfscore 2.0 is a much improved and completely rewritten version of dfscore that I started working on a couple of years ago. The dfscore system is a realtime dynamic score system built to display a variety of musical material over…
A Possibility: Title as prophecy. The art and muck that you are involved with bends around you, is bigger than you, is smarter than you. It points in a direction that you could not conceive. That you could not imagine.…
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Table of Contents Background Development Implementation Analyses The Future /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Background It started with a simple question: “Why compose at all?” At the time I was working on what would later become iminlovewithanothergirl.com and was trying to figure out how to…
Here is the 3rd iteration of my ongoing series of pieces ‘Every. Everything at once. Once’. Before I gib gab about it, here is “Everything Everything at once. Once. (3a)”: The idea for these pieces is to focus my creative process…
Very happy to post this full-length version of iminlovewithanothergirl.com. Even though I’ve talked about the piece several times, and have posted multiple versions of it, I didn’t have a full-length ‘studio’ version of it. Until now. Behold: It was an…
Here is a short video introduction of the dfscore system, which I’ve been working on for some time now. The dfscore system is a dynamic score display system built to function over a local network to display a variety of musical material. The…
The last few months have been both slow and busy at the same time. In that time I’ve been slowly working on multiple pieces/projects simultaneously. I figured it might be interesting to make a blog post about things in progress.…
Back in October of last year I came up with a new idea on how to approach some of the music I’ve been making. The basic idea was to put the creative or ‘compositional’ focus on the instrumentation part of…
Some more me & you action, this time live. Oddly enough, even though we’ve been at this for a while, this was our first live performance. The set went really well, to a full house at The Noise Upstairs. Still working…
I’ve been working on a duet project (me & you) with Sam Andreae for well over a year now. We started shortly after he moved back to the UK after spending a couple of years in Scandinavia. It started off…
Early in 2013 a close friend of mine, Linda Jankowska, asked me to write her a violin piece. Despite her being an amazing and dedicated violinist, I told her no. I added “I don’t believe in violin”. I don’t think she…
Following on from the compositional ideas I had been developing in my .com pieces (form as content) and Battle pieces (challenge as content), I’m working on a new set of pieces where the choice of instruments is the composition. Instrumentation as…