Going All Interior
One of the fringe benefits of my work is that when ensembles program my music, I get excuses to visit places I’ve never been [...]
Fasten Your Seatbelts, It’s Going To Be A Brazen Night
This past weekend I was in Kamloops, nestled in British Columbia’s Thompson Valley, for another outing of my alto saxophone concerto Brazen, with soloist [...]
You Quickly Forget The Camera Is There…
During the Listen Up! tour of the Northwest Territories last November and December, documentary filmmaker PJ Marcellino followed Carmen Braden and me as we [...]
The Parts Are In The Mail
Well, the next phase of the Listen Up! project has come to a end: the composing and arranging is done. After three months’ work, [...]
Real Time Art
Last weekend I was in Calgary for the Forms of Sound Festival at the University of Calgary. The closing concert of the Festival was [...]
Risk It, Put the Words Down
Last fall, Yellowknife-based filmmaker Joel Maillet took on the task of documenting some of the poetry component of the Listen Up! NWT project. He [...]