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[Sold Out!] Opening Night/Butler Night for “Two Mile Hollow” by Leah Nanako Winkler at Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis!!

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It’s a sold out Opening Night for “Two Mile Hollow”!! It’ll also be a special night where we celebrate the Butler University Theatre department as the playwright Leah, the director Mikael, and the sound designer (myself) are all Butler alums! What a treat that we were classmates and friends together at BU and now get to collaborate professionally all these years later! I look forward to seeing all of the Butler folks tonight and celebrating the fantastic work of both the production team and the incredible cast of this show.

I was a total beep-boop-beep-ding-dong and forgot to take any photos of the beautiful set by Inseung Park during tech, so I’ll have to wait until the production photos come out to share them with you. I will be making a follow up post for the run with some samples of my original score, photos and more.

Mary, Blythe and Christopher Donnelly on the stairs of Two Mile Hollow. 📸 @_toneyc_

Two Mile Hollow
by Leah Nanako Winkler, directed by Mikael Burke
runs March 30th through April 30th
at the Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis, IN

Get your tickets now starting at $25, and students can use the promo code “student15” for discounted tickets at only $15. See you there!
Tix >> https://www.phoenixtheatre.org/buy-tickets

From Phoenix Theatre
Don’t miss out on the hilarious comedy, TWO MILE HOLLOW, opening this weekend at the Phoenix Theatre! With beautiful blonde wigs and spectacular costumes, Eddie Dean*, Jay Fuqua, Paige Elisse, Arianne Villareal*, and Milicent Wright* will have you laughing all night. This play features actors of color playing wealthy white characters in a witty and entertaining satire by Leah Nanako Winkler. This play, which is directed by Mikael Burke, is our final production of the 2022/2023 season!

*Denotes a member of Actors’ Equity Association

Removing Ads from this site + more posts soon!

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Dear Readers,

I have decided to remove all ads from this website again. I was hoping it would supply some extra income during the pandemic (since live performances had stopped…). But honestly, I hated the way it looked & I wanted to throw up everytime I saw an ad on this site. And I only made $3 over the course of the year, so fuck that. It was serving the advertisers more than it was serving me!

Anyway – I’ve got a lot more posts, updates, string reviews, videos, theater sound tracks and etc to catch you all up on. I’ll be rolling some of that out over the next few weeks and months! I haven’t been posting everything that’s been going on recently, mainly because there hasn’t been any time to sit down and craft a post or web page.

Since September, I’ve been composing, recording and performing 3 different theater scores for “We Are Proud to Present…”, “Shrapnel”, and “Before the 19th” which will be released soon as Original Soundtracks via GrimmusiK Records.

I’ve also recorded a lot of videos for a new “Setup Madness” video series that I’ll be putting up on the Brian Grimm’s Cello Zone youtube page.

Things are in the works, I’ll catch ya soon!

In the meantime, if you want to support, you can buy some of my recent albums and releases via Bandcamp

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9/7 Sat 7pm $10 Color Field Fest @Freq | Bros.Grimm final show + double-album release

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!

This Saturday, 9/7 will mark the FINAL Brothers Grimm live show for the next couple of years as our beloved guitarist AJ Huckleberry Grimm will shortly head off to Extremadura, Spain.  Furthermore, this is the “double-album release show” of our two Shakespeare scores A Midsummer Night’s Dream [46 tracks 53’12” | w/ db pedersen – May, 2013 Strollers Theatre @ Bartell Theatre] & This Is Not Shakespeare’s MACBETH [37 tracks 94’50” | June, 2013 NoExit Performance] (preview both albums below!).   The Brothers Grimm set starts 7pm at the Frequency as part of the Color Field Festival for Contemporary Music.  We are ecstatic to be sharing the stage with Chicago’s Anubis Saxophone Quartet!

The Brothers Grimm invite you to celebrate the past few years of wonderful music making experiences in Madison with us at the Color Field Festival for Contemporary Music.  With the release of these two albums, let us gather to send off a most exceptional musician and dear friend to many, Huckleberry Grimm.

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Saturday, 9/7 @ Frequency  | $10

COLOR FIELD FESTIVAL FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC  9/4 ᗔ 9/7

7:00pm | Brothers Grimm (Mad)

8:00pm | Anubis Quartet (Chi)

” The Brothers Grimm open with a set of originals, followed by Anubis Quartet, playing adventurous new music for saxophone quartet including Rasch by Franco Donatoni, New York Counterpoint by Steve Reich, and a new work for saxophone quarter and soprano by Monte Weber. “

Color Field Festival also features guest artists TIGUE  percussion trio (NYC) & Clocks in Motion percussion ensemble (Mad)

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

This Is Not Shakespeare's MACBETH

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This Is Not Shakespeare’s MACBETH |Closing Weekend |Behind the Scenes (vid)

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It’s closing weekend, get your tickets!

NoExit Performance
THIS IS NOT SHAKESPEARE’S MACBETH
June 13th through June 29th 
@ The Irvington Office Center (Indianapolis)
William Shakespeare | directed by Michael Burke
Original Foley/Sound-Score
Composed by Brothers Grimm
Performed by BRAIN GRIMMER

Tickets: $20 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior

Thu, 6/13: 8pm – Fri, 6/14: 8pm – Sat, 6/15: 8pm
Thu, 6/20: 8pm – Fri, 6/21: 8pm – Sat, 6/22: 8pm
Thu, 6/27: 8pm – Fri, 6/28: 8pm – Sat, 6/29: 8pm

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Behind the scenes video of the recording session at Bradbury’s Coffee!

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Notes on the Score:

The concept for this score involved setting a foley/sound-design score > No melody & rhythm, but dissonant, atonal harmony, soundscapes & uncomfortable textures.  We began by going into Bradbury’s Coffee (Madison, WI) after hours and recording every sound that triangular room was capable of.  AJ was our sound-guide as we recorded: room noise, beams, ladders, stools, tables, washing machines, refrigerators, espresso machines, coffee grinders, various water drips, toilets, knives, and general kitchen-ware.  With this Bradbury’s audio (recorded by Jon Brumbaugh) and other foley recorded at home, we’ve created roughly 100 Sound Libraries for MACBETH – each library housing up to 128 ten-octave, velocity/pressure sensitive Sample Instruments. The end result is about 2,300 custom-constructed sample instruments nested into one-channel (maximum of 16,384 instruments per channel). Controlling these sounds in real time with Ableton Live 8 through Akai APC 40 & Keith McMillen QuNeo midi controllers, we hope to instantaneously surprise, inspire, pace, & effect the actors performances with our live sound-experiments.  

Macbeth set up: Ableton Live w/ Akai APC 40 & K. McMillen QuNeo

Macbeth set up: Ableton Live w/ Akai APC 40 & K. McMillen QuNeo

||Special thanks to Bradbury’s Coffee for letting us record ALL of the sounds in their space! Also, thank you Jon Brumbaugh for recording audio & Glynnis Ritchie for taking excellent video during the Bradbury’s recording session!
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