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Compositions (mp3s & scores)   |   Theater & Film   |  Live Performance / Installations   |  Recordings   |  Awards
Pine Forest Pond (in progress)

 

 for Shakuhachi
Shakuhachi no Haiku (1-8 of 60) (2008-10)

 

 for Shakuhachi ca. 1 min each 1
2
3
4
5
8

 
Silver Mountain (2009/10)

 

 for Shakuhachi ca. 7 min
The Past is Never Far Away (2009)

 

 for Duduk 4:30 min
Composition for One Voice (2004/09)

 

 for Shakuhachi 6 min
Addendum _able (2005)

 

 Three voices, and/or recorded media      
Seven Words for Seven Performances (2005), a Variation of __ Words for __ Performances

 

 Seven voices 4 min 10 sec  
Soliloquy (2004)

 

 For solo voice    
Composed, Return, Embrace (2004)

 

 Three voices 2 min 16 sec
Compositions for One Voice (2004)

 

 Any instrument or voice in range (1) 6 min 40 sec    
She Saw Seahorses (2004)

 

 Three voices    
Composition for Two Voices (2004)

 

 Any instruments or voices in range (2) 4 min 15 sec
Noise Pieces A, B, and C (2004) Any instruments or voices (3), or two channels projected into an acoustic space

 

   Noise Piece A: 

Noise Piece B:

 
String Quartet No. 1 (2004) Two violins, viola, and cello. 

 

 14 min
Architecture (2003) (Film 2006) Three microphones and loudspeakers

 

 7 min 50 sec Download film (15MB .wma)  
Ten Words, a Variation of __ Words for __ Performers (2003)

 

 Ten voices 5 min 13 sec
_ Words for _ Performers (2003)

 

 _ voices    
P L A I N E (2003)

 

 Construction for Electronic Media 4 min 2 sec  
Study Four (2002)

 

 Piano 3 min    
Second Interpretation of Living Room (2002)

 

 Construction for Electronic Media 59 sec  
Study Five (2002)

 

 Construction for Electronic Media and Piano 6 min 5 sec  
Noumenon Two (2001/02)

 

 Electronic Orchestra 2 min 30 sec  

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Theater and Film / Sound Design
         
The Sound of a Voice Live performance, Shakuhachi  
     Produced by Paragon Theatre Company, Denver, CO.  May - June  2010. "Enhancing the proceedings is the virtuosic playing of the mysterious sounding shakuhachi by Michael Andrew Doherty." - David Marlowe, Outfront Colorado  

Sample from The Sound of a Voice:    Kikyo Genso Kyoku (written by Fukuda Rando): 

 
     
Stephen King's Misery Theatrical soundscape design, composition, and engineering  
     Produced by Paragon Theatre Company, at The Phoenix Theater, Denver, CO.  October 2005.  

Sample from Misery sound design:  

 

  
The Mercy Seat Theatrical soundscape design, and engineering  
     Produced by Paragon Theatre Company, at The Phoenix Theater, Denver, CO.  June - July 2005.  

Sample from the Mercy Seat sound design:  

 

  
The Maze Motion Picture Soundtrack    
     Double Edge Films, 2003.  
     
Iph... Theatrical soundtrack, sound design, live performance, and engineering,  
     Produced by Tir Na nOg, An Irish Theatre.  The Acoma Center, Denver, CO. Spring 2001   
     
Machinal Theatrical soundtrack and sound design  
    Production cut mid-stream, 2000.

 

 

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Live Performances and Installations

Soloist
 

May 8-June 5, 2010. Shakuhachi.  "The Sound of a Voice".  Paragon Theater Company, Denver.

May 1, 2010. Shakuhachi.  "Nothing is Impossible: A Samurai Love Story".  University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
 

April 24, 2010. Shakuhachi.  "Nothing is Impossible: A Samurai Love Story".  Pikes Peak Community College, Centennial Campus Theater.

February 2009. Shakuhachi.  Warner Art Show, opening reception, the Stripes gallery at Hinterland Gallery.

 

Ensemble
 

February 2007.  Duduk, Turkish ney, bloul, laptop / phonography, and other instruments.An impromptu gathering of music featuring Toby Sinkinson and Michael Andrew Doherty.  Naropa University's Goldfarb Studio. Improvisation.

August 2005. Duduk, Turkish ney, bloul, laptop / phonography, and other instruments. Boulder's Fringe Festival, with musicker Toby Sinkinson, and others, as EARMARKINGS.  Trilogy Wine Bar in Boulder.  Improvisation.

June 2005.  Compositional Premiere Concert withRachel Thompson / Jonathan Zorn, and Toby Sinkinson.  Westside Books, Denver.  Presented by Creative Music Works. (Photos).  M.A.Doherty Ensemble: Marissa Tiroly, Dameon Merkl, Jason Scofield, and Merisa Bessinger.
 

2004-2005. Piano and organ. Bad Luck City. Rock band.  Multiple venues and dates.  Opening for a number of top-rated artists, for example, Trailer Bride and New Model Army.  Performed on band's self-titled compact disc.

1994-1996. Keyboards. [Untitled]. Experimental band.  Multiple venues and dates.  Recorded with band on two efforts.

 

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Recordings
         
Grey Sky, Wet Sky (2009)

 

 Sound Dialogue Between Ellerton and Doherty. (2005-09)  
Blue at Dusk (studio works 2005)

 

        
Preface (2005)

 

        
Look for Awakening (2005)

 

 Meditations for tile bells One.      
Architecture, opus one DVD (2005)

 

        
A_B (noise pieces a, b, and c) (2004)

 

        

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Awards
         
Spotlight Award 2005 for Sound, Misery from Colorado Backstage, January 2006

 

  
"Best Avant-Garde Composer" from Denver's arts and entertainment newspaper,  Westword, March 2005. 

 

  

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Press
         
Westword, Denver's Art and Entertainment Weekly.  1995-2010.  
   
         

 
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