This Saturday is our String Quartet Smackdown, produced by Golden Hornet Project and featuring Tosca String Quartet.  Peter Stopschinski and I went through 100 submissions to choose the final 16.  The audience will vote as the pieces compete head to head in NCAA March Madness style brackets.  

Tickets are here:http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/273464

If you’re in Austin, please come!

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As animators do, Lance Myers is spending years of his life making this 20 minute short.  I’m doing a little original music for the film plus Lance is putting in a bunch of old Golden Arm Trio tracks of mine, which are fun for me to hear again.

He just raised $25,000 on Kickstarter so he can hire some folks and speed up the process!

Spacestation 1985 opens this Thursday at the Off Center.  Directed by Jeffrey Mills, produced by Natalie George, sound by Buzz, music by me.  http://www.spacestation1985.com/#!about

In the mixing room for Bernie with the sound and music crew plus some of the other post production folks.  Director Richard Linklater, editor Sandra Adair, mixer and sound supervisor Tom Hammond, music editor Buzz Moran, sound designer Justin Hennard, foley arist Susan, assistant editor Mike Saenz, producer and Detour wrangler Kirsten and more.

Composers don’t usually go to the mix but I love to, especially on the Linklater projects. 

Bernie is still playing in theaters some but the DVD will be out anytime now.  Look for it!  And the soundtrack album is up on iTunes, Amazon, etc.  Thanks!

SPACESTATION 1985

A new play with my 1980’s inspired sci-fi music!

Working on the second iteration of this play, which premiered in NYC a few years ago.  Jeffrey Mills, Jason Newman, and Brent Werzner wrote it, Natalie George is producing.  Buzz is making sound effects.  Puppets in space in the 80’s. 

I’ve got a bunch of music from the original version but am working on several new cues and trying to find the right 80’s sounds.

http://www.spacestation1985.com/

The Night of the Tarantula: Food and music inspired by Puglia, in collaboration with Lucky Sibilla.

I made an album’s worth of new music for this one night this past spring.  We pulled it back out of the closet for the kick off of the Dive Bar series this August.  Now I have to figure out which pieces to pursue for the food album I’m making.

Each track on the album will have a food recipe and a drink recipe.  I’ve been doing an extended series of shows in collaboration with chefs, bartenders, Hank Cathey, and Fusebox Festival.

Redd Volkaert, one of the world’s greatest country guitarists, a Grammy winner, formerly with Merle Haggard, and Austin Legend will join us for the final Dive Bar show.  I’ve worked with Redd on a couple of things.  First thing was the Bernie soundtrack, playing behind Jack Black and then his incredible solo burns up the speakers as the credits run.  He came in another time to record on the Chablis (Peter Stopschinski and Tyler Harding country project) record I produced.  For this show we’ll be working on several works in progress, including the Ballroom Marfa commission that I’m spending a lot of time on.

Also on the gig will be Ricky Davis, former Dale Watson pedal steel player, who’d played on quite a few soundtracks with me, as well as the powerhouse rhythm section of Jeremy Bruch (drums) and Utah Hamrick (bass).  I can’t wait to hear what putting all these people in the same room results in.