Sounds
Being a product of the deluge of musical anarchy that was the 20th Century, There are quite a few sides to my musical expression. This is chiefly divided below into chamber music (instrumental pieces that I’ve composed for classical commissions, films, and commercials) and rock bands (in which I wrote good old-fashioned “songs” with my guitar and sometimes my voice). Yet even in these neat categories there is a world of diversity (the rock music ventures from plaintive and ambient to bombastic and metal-tinged) and crossover (classical violin orchestration can be found in the rock bands and psychedelic effects-processing is used in the chamber music) but ultimately I feel that all of these pieces represent facets of one complex expression. Thank you for listening.
Chamber Music for Film, Dance, and Commercial
Respellatium: Suite for String Quartet in Three Movements
performed by Quartet Opabinia: Hande Erdem, Heather Vorwerck, Emily Packard, Lauren Elledge
Excerpt from 1st Movement – “Passage to Bespin”
Excerpt from 2nd Movement – “Elegy for Windom Earle”
Excerpt from 3rd Movement – “The Redeemers”
Three Cues for a Public Service Announcement on Graffiti
“Graffiti PSA Acoustic”
“Graffiti PSA Techno”
“Graffiti PSA Ambient”
Three Cues for the upcoming film Dark Desert Highway
“DDH Driving Scene”
“DDH Climax Scene”
“DDH Closing Shot”
Alee Karim & The Science Fiction
new band performing psychedelic sci-fi ballads with Agnes Szelag (cello/vox), Marielle Jakobsons (violin/vox), Jordan Glenn (drums), Shayna Dunkelman (xylosynth) and me (guitar/vox); engineering/processing via The Norman Conquest.
“Microsleeps (Early Mix – August 2009)”
The Atomic Bomb Audition
Cinematic metal band featuring me (guitar/vox), Brian Gleeson (drums/vox), Jason Hoopes (bass/vox), The Norman Conquest (electronics/vox)
Holly Caust
(collaboration with The Norman Conquest)