Scoring
Lanier’s scoring work includes feature-length documentaries and animated short films as well as podcast and radio work.
Installation
As an installation artist, Lanier focuses on sound work as a solo artist and collaborator in both interactive and fixed media contexts.
Concert Hall
Lanier composes for ensembles of all sizes with a particular focus on works combining acoustic and electronic elements and works including audience interaction.
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Film Scoring
Lanier’s scoring work includes the feature-length documentary A Land for War, directed by Enid Ryce, and animated shorts by Tim Orme and Soyeon Kim.
fulcrum, dir. Timothy David Orme
Drawing the Perfect Brain, dir. Timothy David Orme
A Land for War, dir. Enid Ryce
Noir, dir. Soyeon Kim
Hansel + Gretel, dir. Soyeon Kim
Podcasts and Radio
You can hear some samples of Lanier’s themes and interstitial music for podcasts and radio on the right. Credits include Physical Kids Weekly, Story Behind the Story, Never Have I Ever Hosted a Podcast, Get Your WIT Together, and music for KSQD.
Installation
Lanier served as the first Participatory Performing Artist-in-Residence at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History and created the piece Triplum there. His Spoken/Unspoken, in collaboration with Hospice of Santa Cruz County, occupied one of the museum’s galleries for four months. He also served an Arts Works residence and created interactive musical works with visitors to the galleries. He has created portable, interactive installation works with Wes Modes and Brent Townshend (Co-related Space) and with Peter Traub (Panta Rhei).
Black Rock Station
Atmosphere (sound for Enid Ryce)
Spoken/Unspoken
Lines and Waves
MAH Art Works Studio
Co-related Space
Triplum
Panta Rhei
Art Works Residency
You can hear some samples from one of Lanier’s Art Works Residency projects, Drawn Music, on the right. In Drawn Music, visitors to the gallery listened to some short compositions from Lanier and drew in response to what they heard. Lanier then created new compositions based on their drawings, which future visitors could respond to in turn with drawings of their own.
Concert Hall
As a composer, Lanier’s music often explores ideas like audience interactivity, improvisation, the intersection of popular and classical musics, and the pairing of electronic and acoustic sound. His concert works have been featured at venues and festivals around the US and abroad as well as on EcoSono’s Agents Against Agency release and Post-Haste Reed Duo’s Beneath a canopy of angels…a river of stars album. He has written for ensembles and performers including Wayla Chambo, Nebula Ensemble, the University of Virginia New Music Ensemble, Jason Calloway and Juraj Kojs, Friction Quartet, the Talujon Percussion Quartet, counter)induction, the Da Capo Chamber Players, and Rêlache. He has also written for youth ensembles including the Youth Orchestra of Salinas, for which he wrote Gathering the Sun based on the poems of Alma Flor Ada, and the Youth Orchestra of Charlotesville-Albemarle Flute Choir. His music has received awards from NACUSA, ASCAP, RenegadeEnsemble, and SEAMUS.
Pieces for Audience
Lanier’s dissertation, Audience Interactivity and the Concert Hall Audience, includes a substantial collection of audience interactive concert hall pieces. Those pieces were premiered by Dana Jessen, Michael Straus, Kyle Bruckmann, and Giacomo Fiore. The video to the left documents their performance of the pieces at the Center for New Music in San Francisco.
Hear More
Click below to stream or buy Post-Haste Reed Duo’s debut album featuring Lanier’s Some thoughts about time. “Bound,” one of the movements from the piece, is included in Spotify’s Next Classical playlist, highlighting “the 50 best tracks of 20/21st century classical music.”
You can also find more recordings of Lanier’s concert works in the playlist to right.
