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04/23/10 Lucky Life premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival tonight!
| I'm in England with Rufus Wainright again launching the premiere of his opera at Sadler's Wells. Come and see it! | 04/12/10 |
"Lucky Life", a film I scored directed by Lee Isaac Chung just got accepted to the world narrative competition at Tribeca! It premieres on April 23rd but has 4 showings. Would love to see you there...< |
03/15/10 |
Moved to the BK :) |
01/01/10 |
| I'm in Cuba learning new grooves! | 12/10/09 |
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Compositions performed.
This is a demo of the first movement of the ballet, From the Margins, This, Unmentioned that will be going up in October at the Brooklyn Lyceum. In this particular movement, electronics will be playing a crucial roll as the idea is to create illusions of tranquility and/or stasus that the electronics will assist in inevitably destroying. The work is based on the poetry of my dear friend, Kat Mandeville and here's the poem this movement was based on:
Ambition Visits a Small Town Cutie
I began modest in your stomach rolling
to touch your ribs each night. Then wandered
from the outside down back roads
unoticed, moving as a harvest
through your town. Leaking gasoline
lighting matches.
I'm growing immense, into a climate
sticky in your creases. Compress me
in this village and we are poison
in their well with our slanting
eyes and wicked grin, eating
ozone, droping air pressure until
there's nothing left standing.
Look - we could do that. Look again,
we already have. Leave with me.
Or we'll burn this town down
out of vengence, a hobby.
We will enjoy doing it.
Fever Dreams // Coming to Grips (2008)
Tape piece for violin, piano, saxophone, percussion, and electronics
This work was created after my first collaboration with choreographer, Bronwen MacArthur. Initially, the idea for the dance work was initially a study of characters from the film Laura, but soon evolved into something quite different. In many ways, the final result was much more akin to a dream than anything else (it's a good thing I wasn't being graded), and Bronwen's fabulous choreography truly completed the work with her subtile pastiche of different dance syles.
Not Not Music :: Semantics (2008)
Piano Solo
At one point, a friend of mine introduced me to the concept of Not Not Architecture. And if I recall correctly, I went to some lecture and a professor from Columbia described it as such (if memory serves me correctly):
Take a cup, and when you turn it over, you have architecture: enclosed space. Take
that same cup, and then crush it, and you have not architecture. Which
he went on to say is also an example of modern architecture. The reason being is that
the remains of the cup, or "structure" could still retain the fundamental elements of architecture;
it can still in some ways provide a space that other things must engage with. It also
illuminates the mythical junction of where art, sculpture, and architecture collide yada yada(by now
you know I'm no authority on the topic). At any rate, the professor then proceeded
to rehsape the cup from its crushed state and announced that we had now arrived
at not not architecture. But of course his double negative beauty, didn't quite resemble
the initial cup, but hey, you could drink out of it.
As he went on to discuss how this could be an approach to construction, I figured,
why not give it a whirl in my world.
Photostuttering II :: In Technicolor (2008)
Full Orchestra
This piece was a followup to my initial Photostuttering, but this time I drew inspiration from film music. The thought was that photomontagists can choose whatever photos they like to create their collage with and in the same way I could pull from different styles of music. Also at the time, I was thinking about Matthew Barney's The Cremaster Cycle, and how some of the beauty of the images can so be quickly be distorted and subverted in an almost macabre absurdist fashion.
Choir and String Orchestra
This work was commissioned by the Norfolk Music Festival and gave me another opportunity to collaborate with
my friend, Lucy Teitler. The poem goes as follows:
I thought then
What did I think then?
I thought then I would say someday
thought then it would last forever.
Rubberbands and Bouncing Football (2003/2007)
Piano Trio (Midi)
At the time I was working on this piece, I was living in Argentina and had found a classical music CD store that sold stuff at such a discount that I probably bough 100 CDs, no joke. One CD was a recording of Pierre-Laurand Aimard's rendition of the beloved Ligeti Piano Etudes. I really wanted to see if I could create something for piano trio as nutty as Disordre, and in the end I sort of created a mess but what can you do.
Full Orchestra
This piece was my thesis at Carnegie Mellon as an undergrad. At that time, I began thinking about photomontage from artists such as Romare Bearden, and films of images being collaged together. As a means of creating a vibrant and colorful pastiche, I was inspired by the negative of photos, and began to look at ways of creating opposites in rhthym, style, dynamic, and contour among others.
Piano Solo
I was lucky enough to have this piece commissioned by the ever wonderful, Lisa Moore. So I figured, why not give her something that she could have fun with and speak on like her incredible rendition of Rweski's "De Profundis". Lucy Teiler's poem, "Hometown, Narcissus" with it's fantastical imagery provided the wonderful impetus.
Mixed Ensemble
This piece was born out of a collaboration with poet/writer/friend, Lucy Teitler during a residency at the Norfolk Music Festival in the summer of 2005. Her Poem, "Accident on the Pacific Coast Highway", inspired me to take a closer look at an accident I had been in when I was 17. The idea was create a collage piece that almost programatically recreates a car accident, and have her text be an ephemeral account of what musically transpires.
Piano Solo
This was my first piece! I loved Berg, can you tell?
Individual compositions.
This song was written as sort of an aesthetic starting point for the "Lucky Life" movie score.
While this is a song, it first appeared in Kohta Asakura's fabled movie, "Planet" as the title track. I'm waiting for "Planet 2" to come out.
Scores for film and video.
Trailer for the film Lucky Life (2008)
directed by Lee Isaac Chung
Not quite done.
Nothing ready to show at the moment...
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SOUND
Compositions performed.
Ambition (2009)
Fever Dreams or
Coming to Grips (2008)
Not Not Music :: Semantics (2008)
Photostuttering II ::
In Technicolor (2008)
Rubberbands and Bouncing
Football (2003/2007)
Individual compositions.
Scores for film and video.
Trailer for the film, Lucky Life (dir. Lee Isaac Chung) (2008)
Not quite done.
Nothing ready to show at the moment...
11/10/09
"From the Margins, This, Unmentioned" went amazingly and we sold out all 3 shows! Here's a clip from the hour long documentary Margarita Jimeno made.
10/15/09
Today "From the Margins, This, Unmentioned", an hour long work for ballet I composed, kicks off it's 3 day run.
This work was truly a labor of love and 33 people are involved in the production. The work is a collaboration between myself and Bronwen MacArthur, a fabulous choreographer. The work is based on the poetry of my dear friend, Kat Mandeville. Please check out her work here.
07/11/09
Rufus Wainwright's "Prima Donna" premieres! I've been working on this production for essentially a year as Rufus' lead assistant. It's been a lot of work and I'm really excited to share it with everyone. If you're in Manchester please come!
07/10/09
I appeared on BBC 1 this week as part of the Prima Donna documentary. George Scott, an amazing director and wonderful friend shot it and it'll eventually go to DVD. So far no one who I bump into calls the encounter a celebrity sighting but things may soon change.. hah.
05/21/09
"Sonnets", a production that Rufus Wainwright and Robert Wilson collaborated on (and I wrote music for), will be getting dvd-ed. This is a truly inspiring production that truly opened my eyes as to what theater could achieve. I'll be excited to see how the taping works out!
05/20/09
I graduated from the Yale school of music. Finally! Walking July 25th. Smellya later!
05/01/09
"From the Margins, This, Unmentioned", a ballet I've written, will be going up at the Brooklyn Lyceum from Oct. 15 - Oct. 17th. Bronwen MacArthur will be choreographing the work and my buddies Nikolai Antonie, Kohta Asakura and Jimmy Sakai will be creating art installations for the production.
Tickets at: http://brooklynlyceum.com/
04/03/09
"Prima Donna", Rufus Wainwright's Opera that I assisted him on will be premiering at the Manchester International Festival on July 12th.
Tickets will be available from:
http://www.mif.co.uk/events/prima-donna/
I've been working on this project for quite some time, so it will be
great to see the work
finally mounted! In conjunction with project, I'll also be in a documentary
on the BBC to air a few nights before the production.
03/17/09
Lucky Life, a feature directed by Lee Isaac Chung and I scored has finally wrapped up production. Time to hit the festival circuits...
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ABOUT
Bryan Senti is a composer and producer based out of
NYC.
He co-founded Found Objects Music Productions, with Trevor Gureckis and Jay
Wadley.
