making music for 3.1 Phillip Lim's INTERSECTIONS
photo by Trevor Gureckis
When I was asked to work on INTERSECTIONS, I was thrilled to make music for a fashion designer whose work I love, and to share a collaborative space with incredible artists. INTERSECTIONS aligns with my creative interests and explorations as a composer and interdisciplinary artist, as I often draw inspiration from the quotidian. The composition consists of my own improvisations on synths, my own sarunay samples, midi instruments, which I played as I meditated on the themes of live/love/work/play, and reflected on the imagery and text. I incorporated some field recordings of NYC and wrote a melody for alto sax, which features my friend, the talented musician Aakash Mittal.
Collaborating with 3.1 Phillip Lim was a wonderful and harmonious (no pun intended!) experience. I really felt that they trusted me as an artist while providing excellent direction that made the work as great as it could be.
Along with my music, INTERSECTIONS features the works of Dong Ping Wong and his team at Food Architects; photographer Jiro Konami; graphic design studio Social Species, and original poems by Fatima Ahman, Jessica Kim, Vanessa Niu and Serena Yang.
Good news: the installation is open to the public on February 10th and 11th from 12pm-4pm at 408 Broadway, NYC.
photo by Trevor Gureckis
Tanya Taylor FW 2016
More FASHUN!
Worked on the music for Tanya Taylor's FW 2016 presentation (mostly creative direction and piano) with Trevor Gureckis aka My Great Ghost. He's an incredibly talented composer and producer. In fact, he worked on some of the latest Kanye album, The Life of Pablo, and some of his stuff made it onto the final! Anyway, this show was so beautiful and it's best you see it rather than read about it, so here are photos of my favorite looks...and Beatrix Ost because she was there and I just had to take a picture of her!
SAUNDER AW16 Presentation
FASHUN!
NYFW always brings about some craziness for me, whether or not I'm working on music for a show (which I am...more on that later). It seems EVERYTHING happens during fashion week; perhaps it's just the nature of February.
Yesterday I went from my Target Margin Theater Fellowship breakfast, to workshopping my new piece with choreographer Coco Karol, to the SAUNDER Presentation. Emily Saunders took an interesting approach to her show: models walked in between parallel yellow ropes as a circular runway, a dance performance by Grace Rising Dance happened in the middle of the presentation, then the models re-entered the space in the same way wearing different looks. I also want to mention that the production designer, Benjamin Heller, is Coco's boyfriend...the world keeps getting smaller! I couldn't catch the rest of the show because I had to go somewhere important but a little less exciting: in front of my computer to catch a webinar on corporate giving. Womp, womp!
