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SOOJUNG KWON (PICTURED IN A THEATRE) PUTS A SPIN ON KOREAN DANCE IN MUSEUM PIECES. MUSEUM DANCES choreography by Natasha Bakht, Moving Dragon Dance Company and Soojung Kwon (CanAsian Dance Festival). At the Royal Ontario Museum (100 Queen’s Park). May 14-16. Free with ROM admission. Toronto NOW: THEATRE REVIEWS Museum Dances REAL GEMS BY GLENN [...]
Biography
Billed as “one of Canada’s most audacious new composers” (The Western Front), Michael has collaborated in a number of contexts spanning from concert music (New Forms Festival, Sonic Boom, Toronto New Music Festival, CanAsian Dance Festival, InFringing Dance Festival, National Arts Centre BC Days), contemporary Dance productions (Mascall Dance Company, Moving Dragon Dance, Off Centre [...]
Performances
Jack Premiere! January 8 2009 – 7:30 PM New work for the TorQ Percussion Ensemble and CD Venue: Walter Hall, University of Toronto, Toronto Ontario 80 Queens Park, Toronto, ON, M5S, CA Concert includes a world premiere by Canadian composer Christos Hatzis ******* Gouldberg Variations January 21 2009 – 12:00 PM Plunderphonic (11’11″) University of [...]
Discography
Flusterblush FlusterBlush A spoken word/music recording by Barbara Adler, featuring works from many Vancouver collaborators. I composed and produced Little Museum, with text and spoken word performance by Barbara Adler, which explores memory and technology. TRACK LIST: 1. Harlequin Sunrise; 2. Music; 3. Exit Slowly; 4. Well; 5. Onward; 6. Birth of Comedy; 7. 24 [...]
Press
MUSEUM DANCES choreography by Natasha Bakht, Moving Dragon Dance Company and Soojung Kwon (CanAsian Dance Festival). At the Royal Ontario Museum (100 Queen’s Park). May 14-16. Free with ROM admission. Toronto NOW: THEATRE REVIEWS Museum Dances REAL GEMS BY GLENN SUMI When in ROM… check out a dance show? That’s the brilliant idea behind this [...]
Publications
Playing With Words Playing with Words: the spoken word in artistic practice is a collection of responses from over 40 leading contemporary composers and artists who have been invited to represent aspects of their creative practice with words, and in particular, the spoken word, for the printed page. The book concentrates on the kinds of [...]
News
Summer 2010 New piece! Slow U Smile for tape August, 2010 This is a new piece based on a rendered song by Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber called U smile. It is the same exact piece, but slowed down 100 times, thus stretching it into a new sonic experience. By slowing it down we can [...]
Museum Dances – review
Here is another review from our show last week in Toronto Now. Reprinted below for your reading pleasure. MUSEUM DANCES choreography by Natasha Bakht, Moving Dragon Dance Company and Soojung Kwon (CanAsian Dance Festival). At the Royal Ontario Museum (100 Queen’s Park). May 14-16. Free with ROM admission. THEATRE REVIEWS Museum Dances REAL GEMS BY [...]
New Animation Score
This is a very short project I did the score on for computer animator Victor Rucareanu. The film is called 4205. Enjoy. [ Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn it on and refresh this page ]
Interview w/ TO Live with Culture magazine
ROM Artifacts Inspire Museum Dances WRITTEN BY CHRISTOPHER JONES The CanAsian International Dance Festival moves into the Royal Ontario Museum this weekend and next transforming select galleries into glorious site-specific performance spaces. Curated by CanAsian’s Artistic Director Denise Jujiwara, each of the four commissioned companies was invited to choose a space or artifact as the inspiration for a [...]
Tombeau For an Ancient Chinese General
Here is a review of our piece at the International CanAsian Dance Festival this past weekend at the ROM. Reprinted from here Fresh moves in the museum A new dance production makes dramatic use of the ROM galleries Paula Citron From Tuesday’s Globe and Mail Museum Dances (Ancient Inspiration, Contemporary Interpretation) CanAsian International Dance Festival [...]
This Bitter Earth On The Nature Of Daylight
This: Plus this: = this:
Patrick Grant Group
fIELDS aMAZE (excerpt) kEEPING sTILL
For Young Composers
“It is a great mistake for young composers to study too much. People with a little talent nearly always kill it by too much learning. Learning kills instinct. It is just as dangerous as too much reflection.”–F. Delius
LOOOOOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOL?
That’s a lot of Lolz. Is he laughing at us? Wait for the falsetto D @ 1:26! This is insane! More lolz? Oh I get it…. this is not Lolz. It is a Russian “vokaliz,” a cognate of the English “vocalise” or vocal exercise. Vokaliz is not, however, a vocal exercise but a style of [...]
Moving Nicely
Spring is almost here, and the snow is becoming squishy and loosening its grip. Since moving back to the east, I am reminded on what four real seasons feels like. Coming from coastal British Columbia, there is really on 3 seasons, fall spring, and summer, with only hints at a real Canadian winter. I like [...]
Inside Joke
“How many members of the Philip Glass Ensemble does it take to change a light bulb?” “onetwothreefouronetwothreefour….”
Mozart’s Vajayjay
I’ve often thought a shot of a tattooed woman with a big hairy vagina would make a perfect album cover for Mozart’s Requiem. And by god here it is:
