New music (for a good cause!)

I’ve got a brand new track, “Unusual Capsule,” on Prosthion Recordings’ compilation This Machine Confuses Fascists: An ACLU Benefit Compilation. It’s available on Bandcamp for just $5, and that gets you 35 tracks from some of my favorite Twitter friends as well as some new-to-me musicians. Proceed to a good cause, aka human rights.

M4DMV Wins IMA Best Concept Album

Music for the DMV was honored at the Independent Music Awards this weekend by being nominated in two categories–Best Concept Album, and Best Longform Video. And I’m so excited to share that we took home the win for Best Concept Album!

Thank you to the Independent Music Awards for an amazing evening. It’s incredibly affirming to meet so many talented and dedicated self-released/indie artists, and to be able to celebrate each other’s accomplishments. Congratulations to all of the nominees!

Concert Music on Yeah I Know It Sucks

The always delightful Yeah I Know It Sucks has a very flattering review up of Concert music for orchestra, chorus, and chamber musicians, 2005​-​2010, an artificial album made up of live recordings of some of my pieces over the years. An excerpt:

I could imagine wordless theatre shows taking the music up and build entire complimenting performances around them. I bet the theatres would flourish and turn into newly generated fan machines. Normal person goes in – hears an amazing show – gets hooked on the excitement – comes out as a super fan of this very fine composer. They all will be my new friends, and the excitement as a person could also team up with their excitements & we all live happily in a world dominated by the inspiring concert music. Animation series and movies will be made with them as their core of inspiration, dance moves will be choreographed and everywhere you go the sounds will come out to greet you lovingly.

I don’t think it gets any more flattering than that 🙂 Read the full review here, and be sure to check out the whole site–YIKIS routinely spotlights some of the most interesting and adventurous indie music out there!