Nike // DONT DO IT

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Honored to score Nike’s new spot taking a stand //

“As the country continues to reel from racism—the American Psychological Association issued a statement calling racism a pandemic—brands appear to have taken a silent or measured approach in their response.

Today, however, one of the world’s most iconic and impactful brands, Nike, has taken the boldest step so far in a new ad.” - Ad Week

https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/nike-boldly-takes-racism-head-on-in-new-ad/

AEON RITUAL AT MASS MOCA

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New residency/collaborative project at MASS MoCA with composer/performers William Brittelle, Emily Wells, Daniel Wohl, Ian Chang, Hanna Benn, Topy Lyo, and Darian Thomas, presented by Infinite Palette, art directed by Andrea Hyde , produced/curated by Kate Nordstrum.

Meta Music with Wild Up

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Played with LA contemporary classical ensemble Wild Up at the Soroya in LA! We played some awesome pieces by composer Ted Hearne, an amazing arrangement of Julius Eastman’s If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich, as well as Bjork, Messiaen, and more.

SHORT FILMS BY THE ROOS BROTHERS

Scored three, amazing humanist portraits of people living in small town CO by The Roos Brothers. Here is the first titled Aaron.

Recording At Fox Studios

Back to California early from the Holidays to work with a 50 piece orchestra at the historic Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century Fox for an amazing new :90 Nissan Titan commercial by directed by Mark Molloy.

Here's a pic from the session with incredible orchestrator Dana Niu and amazing  recording/mixing engineer Greg Hayes. Here we are seated in front of their awesome Neve 88 console!

This was an incredible group of musicians! The piece features a beautiful, minimal solo piano part played by the legendary Randy Kerber - who you may have heard playing piano on family favorites Star Wars, Titanic, Harry Potter and a lots of others.  

SFX Orchestra at dobly theater

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Working on set at the Dolby Theater (home to the Oscars) with the coreographer for a new composition I wrote for AT&T this week.  The piece is an orchestra of everyday sounds like delivery guys and zombies of course. More soon on this....

L I G H T N I N G 0 0 2 Announced

So excited to announce L I G H T N I N G 0 0 2 - a new batch of 5 incredible recordings by Pontiak, Algae & Tentacles, Chris Forsyth, American Culture, and Sam Amidon. 

You can preview them over at Tiny Mix Tapes //

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/lightning-records-taps-pontiak-chris-forsyth-and-more-massive-fallwinter-batch

Band Dialogue 1 // NC

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Debut performance of new multi-band piece Band Dialogue happening at Hopscotch Festival this year!!!!

Hopscotch Tour Notes

First Cy Dune East Coast tour was so much fun. Inspired by a trip to the awesome Hopscotch Festival in Raleigh, NC, I put together a band of some of my favorite NYC musicians – Andrew Barker and Greg Fox on Drums and Tim Dahl on Bass.

We started out in NYC playing a show with MEMs featuring Greg from Deerhoof. Then headed down the coast. Touching base with the awesome Richmond VA crew and then to Hopscotch. Of course heard amazing music there – Merzbow/Wolf Eyes/Daniel Bachman/Pissed Jeans/Charlemagne  Palestine – saw Kid Millions drum with Spiritualized, talked on a panel with Low and Matmos, and held a multi band happening.

Our trip back up north included an awesome show in Asheville at the amazing Apothecary Gallery with the brilliant Leverage Models (Shannon Fields new project), and ended up in NYC with a 40 drum performance in Greenpoint. There reconvening with the mighty Pontiak that played on both big pieces!

Thanks to all who played and helped and came out. More soon!!!