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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)…
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Continue reading →: The sound of a flashback
Originally posted: 7/16/2014 For our production of WIT, I wanted to create something new for several flashback scenes. In the past, I’ve processed an individual actor’s mic with reverb + delay to create this type of effect. But for WIT, the actors were not mic’d. It’s funny how you get…
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Continue reading →: A little music from Romeo & JulietHere’s a first experiment to include music clips directly in a post. This is a little original 1920s-style dance music that the cast used to show off their fancy choreography. And I got a chance to channel my inner Louis Armstrong. Enjoy. If you have a moment, please leave a…
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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