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Each episode features my original theme music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6024a8168e1c8b5d732f925f/85da90e0-9e53-447d-83ba-0e86893fd8e1/Rockabye+-+ARC+%28sam.moff%29-41.jpg Adrian's Composing - Rockabye ARC This dramedy centred on Sidney Jones, a washed-up 80s popstar. I created a catalogue of music to evoke not only the hits from her prime, but also her slowly disintegrating present-day world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6024a8168e1c8b5d732f925f/a11d9791-4533-4b2b-9d53-0466efb5965d/easy+as+pie.jpg Adrian's Composing - Easy as Pie James And Jamesy Productions Although the iconic clown duo initially brought me on board as a sound designer for their new play, my involvement in the piece’s development earned me a co-writer credit. Easy As Pie earned rave reviews at Fringe Festivals in Winnipeg, Orlando and Toronto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6024a8168e1c8b5d732f925f/1613021786096-MRTODXN75IVU1QUQOL3G/gilga+enkidu.jpg Adrian's Composing - Gilgamesh and the Man of the Wild Soulpepper/US Tour This seriocomic international collaboration used sound and music—both live and pre-recorded—to transport audiences from a stylized Mesopotamia of ancient myth to the set of a Hollywood blockbuster and back to contemporary Toronto. For this piece, I shared a Dora Award with Moneka Arabic Jazz Band. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6024a8168e1c8b5d732f925f/11556cb6-7ba2-4aad-8a5e-264e945096a1/Screen+Shot+2023-08-31+at+9.47.32+PM.jpg Adrian's Composing - Chekhov’s Shorts Guild Festival Theatre Tyler Seguin’s adaptation of four of Chekhov’s short comedies featured a full suite of my original songs and accompanying underscore, which blended Baltic folk music with comic music-hall songwriting. 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Listen to the title theme here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6024a8168e1c8b5d732f925f/1613084782415-TJV3QB395WQ6OXH40KCK/box%2B4901.jpg Adrian's Composing - Box 4901 Buddies in Bad Times Theatre This tender, meditative memoir set both in the present and in 1993 was scored by throbbing synthesizers, distant club beats, and melancholy reworks of Céline Dion hits. This design won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Sound Design/Composition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6024a8168e1c8b5d732f925f/1613021930642-1NBAIHKYQFNPXX6D2PZT/Leila_Christmas-36915.jpg Adrian's Composing - A Very Leila Christmas Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts Persian diva Leila experiences her first Christmas as a Canadian citizen in this cabaret-style extravaganza, supported by an original score and brand-new hip hop remixes of carolling standards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6024a8168e1c8b5d732f925f/1613022292111-AYVNXW3GAWFUJSK4DID6/mary%2Bof%2Bshanty.jpg Adrian's Composing - Mary of Shanty Bay Theatre By the Bay In this historical epic, a frontierswoman encounters vibrant wildlife, sails stormy waters and braves her first Canadian winter backed by a lush sound design and an original score inspired by Canada’s earliest surviving sheet music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6024a8168e1c8b5d732f925f/1613022715621-RBGKWTUT5O6ZC62QCZFJ/continuum.jpg Adrian's Composing - In the Continuum Obsidian Theatre (Workshop) This searing drama set in Harare, Zimbabwe and South Central Los Angeles was enhanced by an original score, evocative ambient sound design, and remixed hip hop, Afrobeats and folk songs from both Africa and North America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6024a8168e1c8b5d732f925f/1613022816978-BG2CAIVQJ8EMATPI7046/Thunderfoot_4x4inch-768x768.png Adrian's Composing - Thunderfoot International Fringe Tour This Nordic fable featured sweeping Disney-style ballads, a sprightly original score, and an enchanting fairy-tale soundscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6024a8168e1c8b5d732f925f/1613022922754-9NLW5WGC3O2LYAKUM71R/hht-fake-nerd-girl.jpg Adrian's Composing - Fake Nerd Girl Toronto Festival of Clowns This comic solo show saw its titular superhero encountering fierce dragons, anthropomorphized computer viruses and even Captain Picard himself thanks to an energetic sound design. 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