Check out the audio clips on the AUDIO page to listen to some original tracks, and below…for some clips from recent gigs. I hope you enjoy...
It's official - 'The Dying Piano' is going to Cannes!
What started out as an international collaboration created by Penang-based artist, Madeleine Ekeblad has morphed into a bigger project. Hong Kong based production company, 72 Dragons, has extended the concept for the short film corner of the Cannes Film Festival. The original version was developed with the assistance of up-and-coming award-winning cinematographer, Emily Tathem, along with original music which I composed. The expanded project is still in production, to reflect a new - and deeply moving - storyline. We're keen to see how the new version unfolds...
“The musical composition for the work chronicles the piano’s process of dying, as it shifts from moments of harmonic serenity to discord and despair. At times, the reach to resurrection seems possible, until death appears inevitable. The end arrives, with increasing dissonance, stilted and gasping, until the final solitary note.”
(Composer's Statement from original short version)
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COMBO GIGS
A bit of smooth jazz from 'Dr M' - that's me and Dave Elston - when we're playing combo
SOLO CONCERTS
Pure Piano Sunset Concert at Macleay Island
Phoenix Sculpture Garden at Mount Glorious
RESTAURANTS
The Blue Parrot, Macleay Island, 2013-2014
OTHER STYLES
House Concert - rockin' out with the boys, 2015