After three of my film scores premiered at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Film Fest (The Fishing Hat Bandit, LUKi & the Lights, and Rectangles), I started taking stock of all the music I have sitting on my hard drives. Should I post 5 albums at once? No, more like 10? Actually, hang on...
TWENTY FOUR ALBUMS worth of music to release!
The game ideas have really been flowing this past year! I have five games signed with publishers and many more games seeking publishers. Three recent ones I'm most excited about are Ringyō, Shades, and the Troubadeck.
My love of music, games, and drawing are all coming together in this new project I've been working on - The Troubadeck!
I've started a new podcast called The Tabletop Takeaway with my game design friends Ananda Guneratne and Trevor Muller-Hegel. We have 20-minute conversations about a game we just played (like chess, Kingdomino, Carcassonne, etc.) and talk about our takeaways as game designers. It's pretty nerdy, but check it out if you're into board games and are curious about what makes them tick.
We have a new & bigger venue for this year's Film Score Fest screening! Hope you can join us for 16 new MN-made short films scored live by our orchestra.
Wednesday is my 37th birthday! It's been a fun year, and I wanted to share some highlights from year 36...
Thanks to the pandemic, it took us a long time to safely bring our orchestra together and have an in-person screening for Film Score Fest. But it finally happened! On Saturday, Sept. 4, hundreds of people gathered outside at Mears Park in St. Paul to watch 18 new short films. Our 16-musician orchestra scored the films live, led by conductor Kurt Hattenberger.
I challenged my friends to do covers and remixes of my album 2020. Their songs included every style and instrument imaginable: 80s synths, resophonic guitar, Brazilian piano, and Javanese gamelan. It was a refreshing experience to hear my songs in a totally new light.
Stories I Didn't Know, the documentary I scored last year about the entanglement of Irish immigrants and Native people of Minnesota, will be airing on TPT - Twin Cities PBS.
Below zero temps in Minnesota are making me pretty jealous of the dancers in my new video for "No Turning Back."