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City: Nevada City
State: California
Country: US
Saturday, November 25, 2006 
NOTES ON THE MUSIC & SOUND WORKS I HAVE POSTED HERE

Short Sampler Parts 1 & 2 • 27:36 total
this is a short 27 min sampler collection featuring various excerpts of works composed between 1988 & 2000 for a variety of films, live theater including works in progress.
If you would like more information on the various individual pieces please let me know and I will post it here or forward it along to you via email.
 Please Note: some of the pieces in these samplers have pauses and or develop over a few minutes and may not sound right away when you first click on one.

The Lost Tango 4:35
composed for an early 2006 winter NCCC "Meet The Composer's" evening where each of the NCCC composers composed a Tango. Mine is not a classic tango by any stretch, in fact I find it to be rather disturbing in places like a surreal nightmarish tale full of a loose and abrupt musical madness, and in many ways perhaps a reflection of where my own mental and emotional state happened to be during the time of its conception and subsequent execution enjoy or don't, clearly its your choice ;)

What Do I Need Jesus For? 2:59
have a listen, its pretty obvious... oh and btw the spoken word is actor Brad Dourif taken from John Huston's Wise Blood film released in 1979 which I highly recommend you watch if you have not already...


previous posted work info...

Invisible Life • 2002 • 11:26
this is a piece I composed about a restaurant in Germany where those that have sight are served in pitch black by those that are blind, the concept of which totally fascinated me when I heard about it. It was first performed for the Nevada County Composers Cooperative "Summer Fest" in 2002. There is also a second version which includes text feature my my long time collaborator John Deaderick. For more information about dining in the dark check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindekuh_(restaurant)

Falling From A Comet Into The Sea • 2003 • 9:07
this work was first performed at the 2003 NCCC Festival Of New Music and featured a Chinese Flute solo by Bill Douglass which has been omitted here, also there was a beautiful set and movement choreographed by my good friend and artistic partner Menlo Macfarlane. It is loosely based upon a commentary about falling from one reality into another. The version here is an abbreviated excerpt.


thanks for checking out my work here on myspace... mikail

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