My work divides roughly into 4 categories:
•sound design & composition for theatre
•playing live and producing/recording albums & EPs
•scoring film and television
•being in other peoples’ live and recorded projects
Your downward scrolling will be well-rewarded with a sonic feast…
Sound Design & Composition for Theatre
Goodnight Desdemona – GCTC (2024, Directed by Hugh Nielson)
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is an exuberant comedy and feminist revisioning of Shakespeare’s Othello and Romeo and Juliet. It takes us from a dusty office in Canada’s Queen’s University, into the fraught and furious worlds of two of Shakespeare’s best-known tragedies, and turns them upside-down.
Blood Offering – Burnt for Beacons (2024, Directed by Jacqui Du Toit)
Blood Offering follows a Muslim high school teacher, Mr. Naqvi, and his student, Farid, who have bonded in grief over the tragic murder of another student, Kayla, in a mass shooting.
Benevolence – GCTC (2023, Directed by Eric Coates)
Gilles Jean, big-time lawyer, returns to his hometown of Benevolence to try a troubling case involving the child of an old friend. But with the ghosts of his deceased brothers and father peering over his shoulder, and his mother asking after the state of his soul, homecoming is no easy thing.
Shorelines – TACTICS Ottawa (2023, Directed by Nicholas Leno)
A small military-occupied community sits, waiting, parched of natural water while nearby levees hold the rising global shoreline.
The Unplugging – GCTC (2023, Directed by Katey Wattam)
In a post apocalyptic future, two women venture into a frozen world after being exiled from their village. Relying on one another, they revive their Indigenous knowledge and traditions to survive the harsh winters and create a new community between the two of them. Everything’s going well until a man shows up.
Get Better – Buzzkill Creations (2019, Directed by Callie Presniak)
Life changing concussions aren’t just for football players. What happens when a busy perfectionist bumps her head too many times? Get Better is a quirky, and dark look into the emotional journey of recovering from a minor traumatic brain injury.
Unsafe – Canadian Stage (2019, Directed by Sarah Garton Stanley)
Everybody Dies in December – Broken Turtle (2019, Directed by Ulla Laidlaw)
What I Call Her – Crow’s Theatre (2018, Directed by Sarah Kitz)
Marina & The Cryptids
13 Hands – Alumnae Theatre (2017, Dir. Claren Grosz)
Film & Television
To secure her promotion, Nancy just needs to make it through a dinner party but office gossip makes every word take on a double meaning.
Albums (as leader)
Perdidox (2019) – Born from the sessions that produced Another Helpful Medicine, behold Perdidox. Unlike AHM, which comprises of Aurochs’ improvised tracking sections skilfully chopped up and reintegrated by Jean Martin, Perdidox is our original playing, unedited.
Another Helpful Medicine (2016) – The second release from Aurochs, and the first that includes the electronic live-processing of Mike Smith. Designed to be heard as a single long track, the album is also the 4th release on the at-the-time new imprint of All-Set! Records.
Never Get Lost For Long (2016) –
Rational Animals (2014) – First album by Aurochs, an improvising group with a concept loosely formed around those of The Necks and Dawn of Midi, where we aim to create independent layers that gradually interact rather than react. I journey into the realm of extended piano with the support of longtime friends and fellow ex-Muskox, Pete Johnston on bass and Jake Oelrichs on drums.
Kaleidoscope (2010) – A second collection of compositions by the same band as the previous with the addition of trombonist Tom Richards.
Hyprovisation (2007) – My very first album project with my very first band (Arkana Music) as leader and composer. I play piano, Mark Laver plays the alto sax, Gord Mowat plays the bass, and Jake Oelrichs plays the drums.
Albums (as sideman)
Klezfactor – Songs from a Pandemic Winter (2021)
Jessie Dara – Cyanotype Child (2021)
Mike Smith Company – Famous Wildlife Movies (2016)
Alessandra Naccarato – The Wild Hunt (2016)
Karyn Ellis – More Than a Hero (2013)
Roland Hunter – Toronteros (2012)
Muskox – Invocations/Transformations (2011)
Earthtones – Worm Songs (2010)
Muskox – Five Pieces (2009)
Toronto Jazz Orchestra – The Path (2009)
Ethnocity – Autumn Dreams (2008)
Jessie Kussin – Cry Rumble (2008)
Klezfactor – Klezmachine (2008)
Muskox – Gallantries (2008)
Juan Alzate – Minnewanka (2005)
Klezfactor – The Golem of Bathurst Manor (2005)
