Trailer for "A Bodega"
Courtesy of Sam Mendez.
A trailer for my Harvard VES thesis film: A Bodega. A stop-motion animated experimental documentary examining food access and celebrating comida Latina made with ingredients available at a bodega in Lawrence, Massachusetts. More gifs, photos, and discussion of food access starting in June at http://www.abodega.tumblr.com Check out my Vimeo account for the eventual upload of the film: http://www.vimeo.com/user15152945 Featuring Music by J. Andrés Ballesteros
A Musical History of Death
Tom Allen of CBC Radio 2 talks about the history of the famous Dias Irae Gregorian chant, from the Middle Ages to modern film music.
Website Redesign
As you may have already noticed, the website has undergone some serious redesign and even has a new address! Although it's now a .com website, the old .net is set to redirect here.
Check out the new design on the Music pages (including a new recording of an old piano piece) and feel free to get in touch through the Contact page! I'll continue to make small updates to increase user-friendliness and will post any new recordings here.
Dillon Henry's Flash
Take a listen to Flash, written by the talented Dillon Henry and performed here by the University of Michigan's University Symphony Orchestra.
Harvard Summer Composition Institute
The 2014 Harvard Summer Composition Institute has selected me as one of its resident composers. The Institute, led by Steven Takasugi, will host 12 young composers in Concord and Cambridge, MA during August, culminating in two concerts of premiere works by the composers.
Congratulations Thomas!
A huge congratulations to my friend and fellow composer Thomas Feng on being named a finalist for the 2014 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award for his String Quartet (2013). Listen to more of his music at soundcloud.com/thomasfengmusic.
Upcoming short film
Happy to announce that work is progressing nicely on the music for an untitled short animation by Sam Qualiki Mendez, due to be finished in the next few weeks.
Check out my previous collaboration with Sam, Snow Queen Travel Company, and be sure to check out his other work as well!
Stone Golem recording
I've finally uploaded the much-requested recording of Stone Golem, written for YMedia and based on the short story by Jason Denzel. You can check it out here or visit the Orchestra page under the Music tab. `Andrés
Apologia
I'm very excited to announce that I've been asked to write the music for Jenny Lim's new film Greta, to be released in 2014. This will eventually become the feature-length film Greta, "an experimental feature about mental illness, that combines the fictional world of “Greta” with documentary portraits of a family" (from Lim's description).
[The opening sequence clip is currently unavailable.]
Recent site updates:
- added a live recording of my prepared piano piece six snow sketches
- added remastered MIDI recordings of the string orchestra piece Letters from the War