MUSIC
Works
April (2018), multimedia music drama for three singers and pre-recorded chamber ensemble mixed with electronics and video
Plot Holes (2017), for string quartet
Streams (2016), for solo piano
Fading Still (2014), for string quartet
Floodlights (2014), for solo piano
Polarity (In Three Parts) (2013), for chamber ensemble with pre-recorded audio/video
Autumn Day (2012), for mixed choir and solo piano, with a text by Rilke
April
April is a multimedia music drama by Dominic Mekky and Franky Rousseau. Adapted from a play by Samuel Bronowski, April tells the story of a singer in her early thirties who is irreparably losing her hearing, and the ensuing toll this takes on her and her two close, but unhealthy, relationships. Through a series of scenes and episodes, employing many different modes of storytelling, the plot unfolds in fragments, narrated by one of the characters in hindsight. April can be watched as a film, listened to, or staged live; nothing essential is lost between the media.
The film work of Pier-Louis Dagenais-Savard is a constant temporal navigator, always spinning and moving, connecting different periods of time and allowing us to “see” memory. We see the characters as they were and are, remembered and imagined.
Plot Holes, for string quartet
Streams, for solo piano
Arrangements of:
Love Song by Sara Bareilles
Before The Deluge, performed by Renée Fleming, Alison Krauss, Rhiannon Giddens, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin
