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Continue reading →: Those amazing unused music cuesThe first major set of music cues in Romeo & Juliet is during the big fight at the end of ActI/Scene1. This is where the Montagues and the Capulets call each other out with famous lines like “Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?” and ends with a physical…
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Continue reading →: Fight Call: Like a beautiful little danceFight Call: Like a beautiful little dance #theater #theatre #sounddesign #performingarts
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Continue reading →: Moving music tools to a new laptopI’m very excited to finally have a brandy new MacBook Pro. But migrating the music plugins (AU, VST) is a daunting task. #music #sounddesign
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Continue reading →: The friendly mic guyOriginally posted: 1/1/2014 [4/27/2025 comment – I don’t do many shows that require mics any more but I’d like to think my friendly/collaborative approach still holds. bw] Why work so hard at being a grump?In addition to my work at the black box theatre, I do sound for The Norton…
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Continue reading →: Termination ShockI just finished reading Neal Stephenson’s Termination Shock – another of his 700-page epics. I’ve fairly recently tapped into the whole #SolarPunk thing (I wonder if this will show as a legit hashtag in Bluesky and Mastodon). I was fully immersed in the Cyberpunk movement back in the day. Stephenson’s…
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Continue reading →: Wordland – just a quick experiment
Just a test to try out Dave Winer’s Wordland. It’s sorta nice to not have to type into that teeny tiny little text box. Hmmm… I guess I misunderstood though. I thought this was going to allow me to post to Bluesky directly but the only option (at the moment…
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Continue reading →: Flashback – a Dead Man’s Cell Phone balletOne of the few remaining endearing qualities of Facebook is the History tab. It’s been reminding me for the last few days that five years ago we were performing Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone. I composed and recorded a significant amount of music for this show. But it all…
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Continue reading →: Tuning things upI’m trying to freshen up my online presence. My WordPress site is slowly coming back to life. I’m using this post to investigate the ability to automatically cross-post to several social media sites – specifically Facebook, Threads and Mastodon. Maybe I’ll get a Bluesky account too because… it’s a thing.…
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Continue reading →: Something wicked this way comes
As we get ready to open our second, and final weekend of Macbeth I thought I’d use this as an excuse to share a bit of the original music from the show. The show itself is set in the 1970s which provide lots of inspiration for the sounds and music.…
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Continue reading →: The witch caveWell… here we are at opening night for Macbeth. It’s been a fairly huge amount of work getting all the new music finished and designing/refining all the sounds effects. As time goes on, I find one of the things that consistently provides joy to me (and hopefully to our audiences)…
Bruce Webster
Sound in a small room
Bruce Webster’s atmospheric original score for “Romeo and Juliet” was a remarkable blend of tracked material and live instruments, underscoring scenes and transitions. This ambitious and successful effort, rarely attempted by most theaters, perfectly fit the director’s 1920’s concept. The music enhanced the emotional arc of each scene, adding a cinematic feel and unique fluidity without distracting from the dialogue.
EMACT / DASH Consultants Award speech – August 2024
Hello. I’m Bruce
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