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In 2012, David Lang spent so much time racking up awards — from Carnegie Hall’s 2013-14 Debs Composer’s Chair to Musical America’s Composer of the Year — that it’s a wonder he was able to wrangle a project of the size and scope of death speaks. Commissioned by Carnegie Hall and Stanford Lively Arts to [...]

Arranged Strings

“”In bridging the very old and the very new on a handful of albums and collaborations, [Sam Amidon] has managed to meld the rural and the urban, the organic and the synthetic, the oral tradition and the written score. -Pitchfork

Gathering around him the entire Bedroom Community collective for the project, Valgeir Sigurðsson creates here an ambitious score that echoes the documentary’s vast themes and visual impact… “”The Milk Factory

Remixed Weapons IV

By the Throat reaches right out of the thought bubble and punches you out of your skin. -BBC Music

Arranged Year of the Dragon

A feast for repeated listening, Veckatimest yields the kind of eccentricities a fan can spend months winding and unwinding. – Los Angeles Times

As music, it’s simply exquisite–more controlled and considered than anything Antony and the Johnsons have done and sure to linger in the minds of listeners for more than a season. -Los Angeles Times

Brass, string, and piano arrangements. Sam recorded all the raw tracks in Iceland while I slept in the choir loft above him. Then, I made & recorded the arrangements & Valgeir mixed them while Sam was in Nepal.

“…many many piano and keyboard parts & string arrangements & made notated sense of my own arrangements” (more »)

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Conductor for Pneumonia

Assistant conductor

I helped out with some of the arrangements and did some MIDI programming.

At last, Will Oldham as Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy has given us a record of cryptic romanticism to complement the silver-rimmed bleakness of his 1999 masterpiece I See A Darkness. -Paste Magazine

Pianist on “Oceania.” Full piano part heard on the Piano and Vocal mix, found on the “Triumph of a Heart” DVD. Here’s a mini-interview about my involvement in Medúlla.