Music

Here's one convenient place to listen to all of the incredible original music Satellite Collective has composed for its shows.

Satellite Collective's Original Music Organized by Show

Composers and musicians from both coasts advance classical music with soundscapes and new rhythms. The Satellite Ensemble grows and changes under new music direction each year, with musicians from all over the country performing and recording original music in collaboration with poets, artists, choreographers and architects.

Emergence

Original live music from Brooklyn Academy of Music performance, May, 2014. The unsettling of Spring grounds inspired this piece. Cycles of growth, searching, pain, and tenderness.

Composed by Nick Jaina. Amanda Lawrence, Viola / Nick Jaina, Piano and Production

Rituals

A dance for six, with multimedia. "Ritual" dives into the volcanic beginnings of families.

Composed by Nick Jaina. Amanda Lawrence, Viola / Nick Jaina, Piano and Production

Cosmonaut

Original live music from Baryshnikov Arts Center performance, September 2012

Composed by Nick Jaina, Nathan Langston and Amanda Lawrence. Kevin Draper, LIbretto / Nick Jaina, Lyrics / Kaylee Cole, Vocals

Time and Again

Original music from the Satellite Collective 2015 Summer Residency, September, 2014

Composed by Richie Greene. Catherine Hancock, Soprano / Mitchell Falconer, Piano / Richie Greene, Violin and Production

Twin Star Event

A short film that tells the story of Apollo and the birth of his sister. Scored to an experimental quintet by Ellis Ludwig-Leone.

Composed by Ellis Ludwig-Leone
  • Blurred, smeared, burning strings, playful and menacing. They are beaten, plucked, ripped, stretched, swollen, and breathing.

Edie Leaves Twice

Edie Leaves Twice is the second in the Satellite Collective series of short films — the story of a young woman leaving her home twice — once as she leaves her mother, and again when she must return to get her child.

Composed by Ellis Ludwig-Leone
  • Tender and filled with longing, anxiety, and tension. Feeling uncertainty and doubt, bound by familial ties. Coming apart, unprotected. Risking everything for a sense of safety and home.

Epistasis

Original Music for the Ballet, "Epistasis"

Composed and Performed by Nick Jaina, Nathan Langston and Amanda Lawrence.

Progress

Original Music for the Ballet, "Progress"

Composed and Performed by Nick Jaina, Nathan Langston and Amanda Lawrence.

Thief

Original Music for the Ballet, "Thief": A thief of memories considers his love for a woman, how he might be helpful to her, and how he might convince her to trade her future for the wonderful past he has collected behind her.

Composed by Nick Jaina. Kevin Draper, Libretto / Nick Jaina, Lyrics
  • Spilling, cascading notes. The trickster lays the groundwork, surveys the landscape, and makes his plan.
  • A trotting pace, a sense of excitement. A shift into a more somber mode. Pain and regret trudging forward. Fear and trepidation. Finally, a sense of acceptance of a painful reality.