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The Puppet Show
Thank you for participating as a member of our live studio audience! Please enjoy the immersive taping of your favorite sock puppet pals on their latest bout of hijinks and shenanigans. Featuring new guest, Atlas, and as always, hosted by your human friends PJ and Beige! Script, Music, Puppeteering, Live Performers – Beige Cowell, PJ Mooney Puppets, Props, Lighting…
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Tiny Travelers
“Tiny Travelers” is an interactive soundwalk experience set in Quakertown Park in Denton, TX. The project explores two different sound worlds, one realistic and one hyper-realistic. Tiny Travelers is hosted on the MyCity-MySounds application, which uses the listeners’ location to play various sounds of the assigned locations; this application also has two different modes: one…
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Ashes of Life
A mentor once told me, “You don’t have to change the world, you just have to make your corner of it a better place.” For years I have tried to do this through my own music, but sometimes I struggle. Sometimes the words don’t fit or the music doesn’t motivate me. Sometimes I even question…
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I want like to tell you a story
This project visually explores retrofuturism, where the ideas of the future meet today’s technological advancements. The piece examines themes of obsolescence, purpose, and humanity’s accelerating pace toward mechanization and globalization. Music: PJ Mooney Visuals: Sam Sanchez Premiered November 3, 2024 at Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater
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A Twisted Tale
A Twisted Tale (2024) is an extended technique voice piece for solo baritone and theatrics, originally written for UNT’s Composer’s Forum 24/24 event. The piece tells a humorous, jumbled fairytale where Little Red Riding Hood, the city mayor, is attempting to eminent domain the land where The Three Little Pigs have built their houses. Little…
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Death is a Dialogue
Program Notes Emily Dickinson’s “Death is a Dialogue” conveys an interaction between the “Spirit” and “Death.” Throughout, Death and the Spirit discuss the ending occurrences of life; Death argues that one’s existence will simply dissolve away, while the Spirit reveals a hopeful life after passing. These intertwining elements of relief and hope against manipulation and…
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want2play?
want2play? uses recordings of various game-related materials like dice, board-game pieces and boxes, keyboard and gaming consoles/controllers. It loosely follows the story of an individual who discovers magical dice that, when rolled, transport the individual to a new “world.” As the individual continues to roll the dice, these worlds become more and more hostile, eventually…
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Haunted
Program Notes Haunted is an extended vocal technique composition that tells the story of a man being stalked by a creature as he makes his way home at night. With aesthetic inspiration from Lachenmann’s Guero, the piece uses a custom graphic notation structure with the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) system I experimented with during my…
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Requiem for a Poisoned Earth
Requiem for a Poisoned Earth is an environmentally driven oratorio for orchestra and chorus, featuring four soloists and saxophone quartet. The work aims to educate audiences on the dangers of hazardous PFAS “forever chemicals.” Developed in the early 1950s, these chemicals have been released, buried, and dumped into almost every ecosystem worldwide. PFOA, a specific…
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Reflections…
Reflections… was created as an accompanying score to a short film that explored visual reflections and repetitions.