It happened to be a sunny day in Portland when this picture was taken. Supposedly, one of the FEW days that it is sunny in Portland from what all my friends that live there say. I have a love/hate relationship withe Sun. I was born in the desert of Arizona, Tucson [...]
Retrolandia (2010) [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
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Playing with Amy X Neuberg and Andrew Juris Moe! Staiano is sitting doing nothing (intentionally). Thanks to Herb Heinz at This Here Show.
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One movement piece that was originally going to be part of a three movement string quartet. I had a change in direction as far music goes so I decided to keep this movement as a piece in itself and let the other movements become another string quartet. [...]
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This piece was composed as part of an assignment I gave to my students to last year to concentrate on melodic writing. IT turned out to be far productive if we all started with the principal idea and then write the accompaniment.
I am proud to announce that one of my composition students just scored his first movie project down in Hollywood. Jasha Klebe studied with me, writing two pieces, Piano Quintet in A minor and L’eau, Carry Me for Orchestra. I like to wish him the best of luck and [...]
This video is from August of 2008. I did a fundraiser for the dance company, Double Vision. The piece, Tower of Babel, is originally for 7.1 surround sound, but for this show, this is the stereo mix. I was surprised how well the music held up in a different setting. The piece was originally [...]
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