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Current Events & Recent News

  1. 02.05.11

  2. A few colleagues from the DC Listening Lounge and I did a workshop with members of the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) today. I presented some ideas and the participants played with hue as it relates to timbre.

  1. 02.16.11

  2. Met with Ben Wegman and Sarah Levitt today, resident dancers in the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. An in-progress sketch of their new duet, Hammock, with my score was presented at The Flea Theater in New York on February 5.

  1. 03.08.11

  2. Peter and I installed the Tiny Dance Film Series at the 2011 Northeast Regional Conference of the American College Dance Festival a few days ago. The conference takes place at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. Four kiosks are on view March 8-16. Here’s a quick look at the installation process!

  1. 03.31.11

  2. The Studio Theatre in DC is producing a fantastic festival of Enda Walsh plays and calling it NEW IRELAND. Two of the plays are staged by director Matt Torney with sound designs by Martin Desjardins, whom I assisted. “The Walworth Farce” opens April 6 and “New Electric Ballroom” opens April 13.

  1. 04.08.11

  2. Rebecca and I are helping to organize a fundraising party called KITCHEN OF INNOVATION. It goes like this:


  4. A group of people pay $16.50 each for dinner and entertainment. After dinner they listen to a series of artists give presentations  about their work and a current project. The dinner guests vote for the artist they like the best. The winning artist takes home all the money from the ticket price, promising to use it for the project they presented, and report back at the next dinner party.


  6. It’s a crowd-sourced, micro-financing fund for DC-based artists:

  7. KITCHEN OF INNOVATION

  8. The second ever Kitchen is happening tomorrow night, April 9! Tickets.

  1. 04.08.11

  2. Also this weekend: Peter Kyle Dance is presenting a new duet at the Triskelion Arts Spring Gala in WmsBrgh., BKLYN. on Saturday. I created the score. Go! Say hello to PK & Holley! Then tell me what you think!

  1. 05.10.11

  2. One entire month and no recent news!? Not really. Two plays which I assistant designed just closed at the Studio Theatre in DC. And I designed “Strange Snow” for East 3rd Productions, currently running in New York. And here’s a song for that play which I dusted off recently.

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  1. 06.18.11

  1. 08.24.11

  2. A quick look at the Tiny Dance Film Series.

  1. 09.28.11

  2. Two projects which I'm a part of open tonight, one with a whole lot of speaking and one without any speaking at all. LUNGS is the talkie play, a world premiere at the Studio Theatre in DC; I contributed a short piece of music. DANCES FROM THE STEP DOWN ROOM is the wordless work, an evening of new and revived chamber dances exploring the philosophical, the fantastical and the physical. I scored two of these dances for Peter Kyle Dance; it's presented by Triskelion Arts in BKLYN. Below is a piece called Mai Bild that will be featured.

  1. 10.20.11

  2. Scena Theater’s GREEK by Steven Berkoff opens tonight at the H Street Playhouse in Washington, DC. There are some fantastic performances in it, full of filthy language and raunchy depictions of the Oedipus story. Robert McNamara directs. A selection from my sound design is below.

  1. 12.05.11

  2. I’m putting the finishing touches on my sound design for Chekhov’s THREE SISTERS at the Atlantic Acting School in New York. The production design is magnificent and the acting is superb.


  4. Dec. 7-10 at 8pm

  5. 646-216-1186 for tickets

  6. 330 W. 16th St. NY, NY

  7. Directed by Matt Torney

  8. Sets, Lights by Gabe Evansohn

  9. Costumes by Nicole Wee

  10. Sound by James Bigbee Garver

  1. 12.20.11

  2. I was selected by the Cultural Development Corporation of DC to take part in the 2012 Source Theater Festival’s Artistic Blind Date program. I’ve been paired (tripled, actually) with Visual Artist Kristy Simmons and Choreographer Sarah Ewing. The three of us will work together over the next five months to create a new piece of theater which will have its premiere in June during the festival. Very exciting stuff!

  1. 01.09.12

  2. Peter and I are speaking on Edward Henkel’s MovementTalks panel at the 92 St. Y in New York next Friday, Jan. 27. This iteration of the ongoing series is called “Dancing in the Cloud / Dance for Small Screens.” We’ll be sharing our Tiny Dance Film philosophy, and even screening a few of the films on a humongous screen in the gigantic Buttenwieser Hall at the 92 St. Y. Click the image at right for all the details.