by Dan Blake | Oct 12, 2020 | Compositions
Here is some film music, which found a home in this Extinction Rebellion video on Citizens Assembly! Activism is becoming increasingly important to my creative work and I’m proud to serve this amazing organization musically. See that video here And hear the rest...
by Dan Blake | Oct 12, 2020 | Compositions
Dedicated to Jarvis Jay Masters, who has been wrongly held on death row for many years and whose commitment to finding spiritual truth in the most difficult of circumstances (especially as an aging man living in prison during Covid-19) is a true inspiration....
by Ladder Creative | Jan 24, 2019 | Compositions, Dan Blake
Upasiva’s Question is a recent composition. This work sets one verse from the the Parayana (“Way to the Far Shore”), an ancient Buddhist text. The work will be premiered October 26 in Brooklyn, NY by Threeds, a Brooklyn-based oboe trio. Feel free to contact me to...
by Dan Blake | Aug 24, 2018 | Compositions, Dan Blake
Agora takes its name from David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, in which the author muses about a film that consists only of extras who, instead of mouthing and gesticulating silent dialogue in the background, are each fully heard as central protagonists in the story....
by Dan Blake | Jan 24, 2018 | Compositions, Dan Blake
Commissioned by New Music USA and the Jerome Fund for New Music, this work was created for Mivos Quartet and imagines stillness within motion (and vice versa) as both a visual and sonic quality. The Dust Moves (full version/animations only) from Dan Blake on Vimeo....
by Dan Blake | Jan 24, 2017 | Compositions, Dan Blake
Scored for flute, tenor saxophone, piano, and pitched percussion, this work was commissioned by Spring Roll in 2016. The piece invites players to get “stuck” and to find their way out with a variety of improvised structures.
