Here’s one convenient place to listen to all of the incredible original music Satellite Collective has composed for its shows.
Satellite Collective’s Original Music Organized by Show
Composers and musicians from both coasts advance classical music with soundscapes and new rhythms. The Satellite Ensemble grows and changes under new music direction each year, with musicians from all over the country performing and recording original music in collaboration with poets, artists, choreographers and architects.
Emergence
Original live music from Brooklyn Academy of Music performance, May, 2014. The unsettling of Spring grounds inspired this piece. Cycles of growth, searching, pain, and tenderness
Composed by Nick Jaina. Amanda Lawrence, Viola / Nick Jaina, Piano and Production
Music box trepidation. Under a vast, starry night, a twirling dance. Sudden chaos, soothed by strings. A stranger whistles through a dark tunnel. Wanderers, lonely and enterprising, walk at night. Light flickers fast, flickers out.
Time and Again
Original music from the Satellite Collective 2015 Summer Residency, September, 2014
Composed by Richie Greene. Catherine Hancock, Soprano / Mitchell Falconer, Piano / Richie Greene, Violin and Production
Tentative, skipping piano. Deep strings ground down, then rise. A reaching out, a lengthening, a hopeful extension. A terse engine moving forward, lightening, becoming tender.
Intense layers of texture and voice. An anxious, invading chant.
Twin Star Event
A short film that tells the story of Apollo and the birth of his sister. Scored to an experimental quintet by Ellis Ludwig-Leone.
Composed by Ellis Ludwig-Leone
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Blurred, smeared, burning strings, playful and menacing. They are beaten, plucked, ripped, stretched, swollen, and breathing.
Edie Leaves Twice
Edie Leaves Twice is the second in the Satellite Collective series of short films — the story of a young woman leaving her home twice — once as she leaves her mother, and again when she must return to get her child.
Composed by Ellis Ludwig-Leone
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Tender and filled with longing, anxiety, and tension. Feeling uncertainty and doubt, bound by familial ties. Coming apart, unprotected. Risking everything for a sense of safety and home.
Epistasis
Original Music for the Ballet, “Epistasis”
Composed and Performed by Nick Jaina, Nathan Langston and Amanda Lawrence.
A perfumed and gracious environment, welcoming and vast, alive with movement.
Thief
Original Music for the Ballet, “Thief”: A thief of memories considers his love for a woman, how he might be helpful to her, and how he might convince her to trade her future for the wonderful past he has collected behind her.
Composed by Nick Jaina. Kevin Draper, Libretto / Nick Jaina, Lyrics
A trotting pace, a sense of excitement. A shift into a more somber mode. Pain and regret trudging forward. Fear and trepidation. Finally, a sense of acceptance of a painful reality.