Scott Marshall music & sound design

2004 — (73;00)
Fourteen tracks, all music, all original compositions. Thirteen guitar-driven instrumentals, one collaboration with singer/songwriter Karen Gollrad, one collaboration with experimental instrumentalist Eric Leonardson. Very melodic, moody, and on the melancholic side of things. Evocative of upstate New York twilight images and rural places.

2003
Disc 1 — (68;'01)
Disc 2 — (56;01)
A double-CD of audio collage. Newly constructed melodies, rhythms, satire, media barrage, and the complete 21-minute commissioned score for Scott Rink’s ballet of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”

2002 — (73;28)
Creating a spoonerism from the title of Amos Tutuola's 1954 literary masterpiece "My Life In the Bush of Ghosts" (as well as the 1980s LP of the same name by Brian Eno and David Byrne), My Life in the Gush of Boasts is 73 minutes of new rhythm-and-collage, ambient electronica and original field recordings. Flavorings of roots dub reggae, acid jazz and trip hop, as well as Eno-esque ambient burblings, shimmers, and gaseous synth drones.

2002 — (36;01)
In collaboration with singer-songwriter Jenny Lombard, Rank Stranger is a foray into old-timey folk music and odd contemporary covers. Exploring the darker side of American indigenous music as well as a few contemporary chestnuts, Marshall and Lombard also contribute one original ballad. Marshall plays all of the instrument tracks while Lombard contributes vocals and lyric adaptations. Eleven tracks of straight-up music, with an alt-bluegrass feel.

2000 — (69;35)
When world-renowned choreographer Lar Lubovitch first set eyes on The Orensanz Center for the Arts in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, he knew he had found the setting for his next dance piece. The dramatic neo-Gothic structure was originally constructed in 1849 as a synagogue. After many years of use and neglect, the building was rescued from oblivion by sculptor Angel Orensanz in 1986. In restoring it, Orensanz retained all of the gloriously beautiful decrepitude and rich history while developing it into a multi-use arts, production, and performance space. Lubovitch set Men’s Stories in that rich atmosphere and commissioned the audio score.

This CD contains the score for the original production of Men’s Stories, and six other selections; including the accompanying music for two of my short digital video experiments.

Click here for what the reviewers said about the score for "Men's Stories".

2000 — (60;00)
This CD is a single, one-hour long deep ambient track featuring original music and site-specific field recordings from outside of the rural Illinois village of Pawnee. Mellow, meditative, and melodic.

2000 — (44;00)
Eleven tracks of original music, some of which became the soundtrack to my video (Un)intended Nature (which was funded, in part, by the Brooklyn Arts Council). Melodic and rhythmic ambient-electronica.

MP3

from the video
"(Un)Intended Nature"

theme (2.8mb)

1999 — (32;00)
Thirteen “best of” tracks of experimental audio and collage (1989-99). Most tracks previously released on various national and international compilations. Includes the three tracks produced for the Woody Allen movie “Small Time Crooks” (released May 2000).

MP3

from the film
"Small Time Crooks"

The Modern Dance (900K)

1995-98 — (55;38)
After producing numerous cassette and vinyl projects throughout the 1980s, this was my first self-produced CD. Seventeen tracks that feature a variety of projects in collaboration with some of Chicago’s leading experimental musicians. Ranges in style and content from acid-jazz to afro-dub to dark ambient to language poetry to harsh collage. Includes: soundtrack music to my 42-minute film and video experiment from 1997 entitled “Desire"; four tracks in collaboration with the SLAPP Orchestra djembe and percussion ensemble; a crazed re-mix of Jeff Kowalkowski and Marko Ciciliani's multimedia opera "Bosch Tapped the Gas Pedal and the Caprice Moved Forward"; and one completely interstellar out-there track in collaboration with poet Elizabeth Harper and multi-instrumentalist Geoff Greenberg. Also includes my highly treasured crank phone call (c.1994) from clownish PoMo poster boy Bruce Nauman.

MP3s

from the video "Desire"
Dance of the Spirits (3.4mb)

"Bosch Tapped the Gas Pedal and the Caprice Moved Forward"
Remix Part 1 (2.3mb)

from the video "Desire"
Outro with crank phone call
from Bruce Nauman (1.6mb)