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Growing Pains
Winner of the Nathan Davis Grand Prize in Composition in the 2025-2026 Daniel Thompson Memorial Competition for Young Composers. Commissioned by the Young New Yorkers’ Chorus, Alex Canovas, artistic director. What does it mean to be alive? What does it mean to grow? To move through time, experience life, and change? In this moment, what…
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Visual Credits – Blood is Blood is Blood
The premiere performance of Blood is Blood is Blood contains several projected images collected and displayed by visual collaborator Beige Cowell. This performance constitutes a collection of individually licensed works; no single unified visual derivative is claimed. The images and photography included are credited below with their respective licenses. Special thanksto Noelle Hanrahan, The National…
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Blood is Blood is Blood
Watch the livestream @ 3/30/26 5:00pm here! Blood is Blood is Blood is a documentary-oratorio for choir, flute, clarinet, piano, e. guitar, and double bass centered around unheard stories of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In collaboration with lyricist Katherine E. Ragodos, the project features newly written libretto intertwined with medical research and publications, quotes from the…
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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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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…