Fictive Music

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  • audio portfolio

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    WUOL “Breathe” Imaging promo. Writing, editing, mixing, and voice-talent coaching WUOL Covid Imaging promo. Writing, voicing, editing, and mixing Louisville Orchestra broadcast promo. Writing, voicing, editing, and mixing Excerpt of Louisville Orchestra broadcast. Writing, voicing, editing, and mixing WFPL Legal ID and sounder. Writing, music composition, editing, mixing, and voice-talent coaching

  • New Album

    New Album

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    Out now, a new album with Piano Trio No. 2 “Payne Hollow” and the electronic soundscape winterloops. Find it on Bandcamp, where you can also get a limited edition 12″ vinyl (available for shipping in late 2025). The album was recorded and mixed by Dave Chale, produced by Evan Vicic, liner notes by Jessica K.…

  • A Q&A with writer and curator Jessica K. Whitehead

    A Q&A with writer and curator Jessica K. Whitehead

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    My next work is a piano trio (violin, cello, and piano) called “Payne Hollow,” premiering on February 25, 2025 at the Filson Historical Society in conjunction with the launch of “Driftwood: The Life of Harlan Hubbard” by Jessica K. Whitehead. Jessica provided the impetus for the trio, along with tirelessly advocating to funders and those…

  • Profile in Voice-Tribune

    Profile in Voice-Tribune

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    Thank you you to Bill Doolittle and Matt Johnson for this profile in the Voice-Tribune

  • Back to the earth again

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    The Irish poet Æ called Jesse Stuart’s The Man with the Bull-Tongue Plow, from 1934, the greatest collection of American poetry since Leaves of Grass. These five songs premiered ten years ago today, at KMAC Contemporary Museum; and the recordings below (recorded at St. Francis in the Fields, Louisville), sensitively sung by Steven Paul Spears and played…

  • Apropos six years

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    …since living at Copland House in Cortland Manor, New York (the last residence of Aaron Copland). 2017. Late summer. Three weeks. The world was different — at least mine was. Earth’s curvature hiding what was beyond the horizon. Surrounded by Copland’s (Aaron’s?) earthly treasures, came this “miniature” for Lara Downes: a dialogue between two people…

  • The Giver of Stars a few years later

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    I wrote “The Giver of Stars” at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in 2020, just on the eve of pandemic shutdowns and disruptions, confusion and the pervasive smell of hand sanitizer. The text by Amy Lowell, could be read on two levels: a prayer of supplication, and/or an allegorical love poem. Being only one…

  • Music with Wendell Berry

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  • The Porch Over the River

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    Wendell Berry’s prophetic words in “The Porch Over the River” describe a pastoral scene which becomes darkly reflective of our human footprint. It’s as though the sounds of the river, frogs, phoebes, and trees are momentarily interrupted by the passing sound of traffic or the distant whine of a jet engine. But our focus returns…