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Moving Through the Boreal Forest (2023)
field recordings, percussion, & poetry | Sean Dowgray, Dary Farmer, Maïté Agopian, artists | Listen & Support Here
Moving Through the Boreal Forest presents a sonic ecosystem of field recordings throughout Alaska, found sounds from my explorations throughout In A Time of Change: Boreal Forest Stories (ITOC), and performed sounds of my own creation. The timbral diversity of various percussion instruments combined with the many sounds of the boreal forest presents a sonic dialogue that has been of primary interest to me throughout ITOC as a music performer, a listener, and learner of this particular biome. The field recordings reorient the percussion instruments back to their original material state: wood, metal, stone, earth, and skin. In turn, the performed sounds open up the expressive aspects of the forest itself. At times the field recordings are most prominent, other times the performed sounds are heard alone, and occasionally the two are indistinguishable.
Anniversary Leaves (2023)
field recordings and percussion | Sean Dowgray, artist | Listen & Support Here | Listen on Spotify
Anniversary Leaves is a compilation of field recordings consisting primarily of thunderstorms, wind moving through trees, and vehicles passing over a bridge. The primary underlying recording - which comes in and out of focus throughout "Anniversary Leaves" - was recorded in the late night of my 6th anniversary with my partner, Ida in the anticipation of an oncoming storm (which ultimately never arrived). We were surrounded by trees which were shaken continuously by the heavy winds. Layered onto this recording are many other recordings of leaves put in motion by wind, as well as a small number of other captured sounds and a handful of performed sounds.
Auscultation
works for percussion instruments and feedback (2022) | Andres Gutierrez Martinez, composer | Listen Here
Lasting Shadows
xavier betata, composer; aleck karis & matthew kline, conductors (2020) |sideband records | Listen Here | I Care if You Listen Album Review
Cloud Polyphonies
james wood, composer; michael rosen, conductor (2020) | oberlin percussion group | Listen on Spotify | Read More
Inheritance
lei liang, composer; matt donovan, libretto; steven schick, conductor (2020) | Albany Records | Excerpt Here
The Grand Tour
works by josh levine, christopher adler, lewis nielson, daniel tacke; sean dowgray, percussion (2019)
Time Bound & Timeless - Antinomes
sean dowgray, piano (2019) | Featured on BTR Today
Crossfire at Moniker Warehouse
Art of Elan - solo performance of Temezcal by Javier Alvarez (2019)
Frey & Babbitt Orchestral Works
the windansea symphony orchestra - erik carlson, music director (2019)
Collective Memories
Art of Elan - Consolation of Rain by David Bruce (2018)
Mass for the Oppressed
emerson eads, composer; tess altiveros, toby newman, barry banks, david miller, vocal soloists; concordia choir & ritornello orchestra of the university of notre dame (2017) | Info Here | Excerpts Here