BRIAN
HELLER
audio engineer - composer - technician - educator
brian (at) whattheheller (dot) com
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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CURRENT & RECENT PROJECTS:
- Writing an article for Electronic Musician magazine on tricks with DIY microphone polar patterns
- The score for my piece (Ready to Use) Illustrations of Women's Heads was
published in the recently released book Notations
21. It's a beautiful and unique
anthology of graphic musical scores from the 21st century. If
you're interested in a copy, it's available at Amazon, or I can get you one
for a discount!
- Preparing and traveling as the composer's assistant and technical support for Janika Vandervelde's Music By Kids For Kids project.
- Working on a piece for strings and old 78 RPM records
- Ongoing: Recording, mixing, and tech work at the PCAE Arts High School
- Ongoing: MCTC
Sound Arts Faculty & Tech -- Sound Arts 3+4 (Advanced Recording & Production)
- Learning to play my new pedal steel guitar!
- Editing & mixing George Tsontakis's Gymnopedies for release on Innova Recordings
- Reading Glenn Watkins new book, The Gesualdo Hex
- House sound reinforcement for the run of Zeitgeist's spring concert, For the Birds, with composer Victor Zupanc and playwrite Kevin Kling
- Still getting to know my new Novation 49SL MkII MIDI controller
- Starting an orchestral re-arrangement of Neko Case's Deep Red Bells. In the process, studying scores for Liget's Atmospheres and Stravisky's Firebird Suite
- Working through the JuxaPositions film series on contemporary composers (most recently Gyorgy Kurtag and Pierre Henry)