Category: Theatre
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Sound Tech in the Theatre
Hypersonic speakers for The Crucible at Studio 58 In a production of The Crucible, I wanted the audience to feel what it might be like to hear voices in their heads. We realized that the best way to achieve this was not simply to focus the speakers from the grid above and point them in one…
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a story about getting it right
The dreaded book dance cue. 5 years. 5 long years. It’s not often that we get the chance as designers to re-work our creations over a long period of time. We are usually constrained by timelines, the influence of the visioneer, etc… I was fortunate to have that rare opportunity to work on a show…
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Sound Design for Interactive Mini-Theatre
The challenge to reinvent the stage for theatrical design has resulted in more interactive and immersive experiences. The selections below represent a wide range of work and these examples, part of a body of work presented at Hive in Vancouver (a unique offering of mini-pieces in the same warehouse space and rotating small audiences) represent one future…
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Live Music and Songs
The productions below highlight some of my ongoing exploration of integrating live and pre-recorded songs into the design using text from the script and coaching actors to deliver. Many productions I’ve been involved in have demanded some kind of live element and/or live, mixed with recorded. This has been a worthwhile challenge and one of balance,…
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Bard on the Beach
My ongoing work with Bard on the Beach in Vancouver over the years has challenged me to compose music and design sound for a tent. Subwoofers beneath audience members, speakers pointed in all manner of places, inside and outside the tent…actors performing instruments, rhythmic voice and choral work using the text as inspiration. All have…
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Virtual Stage
The Virtual Stage is an interdisciplinary theatre company pushing the boundaries of what is and what is not reality. Click here for a short film co-produced by the Virtual Stage for the Vancouver Short Film Festival. The stills below are from our first collaboration. Future collaborations include a combination of live theatre with VR exploring…
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Studies in Motion
Studies in Motion/Electric Company Theatre/2006-2010. Five separate productions based on the life of Edweard Muybridge. 120 Cues. Over 75 originally composed works. Video highlights here. Compositional highlights available here on iTunes: