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Check my new Album. It's entitled The Organ•ism. It's a collection of works exploring timbre and rhythmic dissonances using primarily my Hammond M3 Organ. Take a LISTEN. It's very different from you might be used to from me.
https://madcomposerlab.com/the-organism

Yo, what's good? Check this out!
Opera Realness.. Excerpts from Madame Theremin are being performed by West Edge Opera in Berkley and San Francisco March 2 and March 3, 2024!
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SNAPSHOT | West Edge Opera "expressive, insinuating, full of enigmatic fervor... Each excerpt includes passages that make one intrigued to hear the work at fuller length"

New works from fiction to stranger-than-fiction...
•Composer Kennedy Verrett and librettist George Kopp
Madame Thereminbased on the true story of Black ballet dancer Lavinia Williams, who was married to the Russian electronic music pioneer Leon Theremin.Composer
•Matt Boehler and librettist Tony AsaroThe Road to Wellville based on T. C. Boyle's novel, a Dickensian cast of characters persue the magic pill of longevity—and the profit to be had from manufacturing it.
•Co-composers Hovia Edwards and Justin RallsLibretto by Sacajawea’s great-great-grand-niece Rose Anne Abrahamson Nu Nah-Hup: Sacajawea's Storythe extraordinary Agai-Dika/Lemhi-Shoshone woman of the historic 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition, from the oral history of her familial descendants.
•Late composer Loren Linnard and late librettist Donald Brigg unearthed by Linnard's son, Dean Linnard.Least of my Childrenthe first documented musical work about the AIDS crisis - written here in San Francisco - exploring a catholic family's confrontation with a new disease in 1989, and the miracle of 'Our Lady of Guadalupe' in 1531.
•March 2nd and 3rd, 2024Tickets on sale Mid-JanuaryCasting to be announced in November
•West Edge Opera Music Director Jonathan Khuner:
'The creators of our four scenes have a unifying concern with the dignity and transcendence of individual experience within the constraints of American social history. Within this unifying theme, our four scenes cover a wide range of musical/theatric styles, from Sacajawea’s embroidery on Native American folk art, to Madame Theremin’s spin-off on jazz, reggae and hip-hop elements, then Least of My Children’s classical orientation with modern non-linear stagecraft and The Road to Wellville’s farcical pop-style tilt.'
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Oo this is going to be a blast. So excited! Hope to see you there!

Reflections from yesterday.

How blessed am I to have such beautiful people surrounding and supporting my ‘madness’ and ‘realness’.

The day was sweet, the evening just as sweet. Dare I say it was perfect!?

It’s quite nice to see another solar return and to shed new layer only to gain a new one of perspective, change, and wisdom.

Anyway, I’ve been doing these B-day selfies for a few years and it’s nice to see the evolution and the uncracked black.

Soundscape observation.

I hear the sounds around me, but I feel the vibes from the roots that ground these trees.

Sounds observed: geese, various water foul, cars, machinery at the docks, water waves, ship sounds, wind as it wrestles the crisp dead leaves left over from autumn, Sehna rumbling in the bushes and the river, my shoes in the cold mud, other dogs at play

I feel the vibes of the wind and it’s origin.

The balance, definitely a lo-fi situation. Sounds clash, finding no place to rest comfortably, but there is evidence that it is sorting itself through adaptation and reconciliation, finding the balance. In the meantime, peaceful chaos.