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written by Leon Garcia, performed by Projekto Karmaloka

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written by Leon Garcia, performed by Projekto Karmaloka

Completed Compositions

2008 Score for “Lunch break”
Composer: Becky Allen
80-minute electronic music score for Sharon Lockhart’s film
Premiered at Secesion, Vienna Austria, November 2008
2007 Surface
Composer: Becky Allen
Foot percussion piece for two percussionists performing in specially designed
Portable foley boxes using foley materials.  Music inspired by Son Jarocho and
Flamenco foot rhythms.
Premiered at Beyond Baroque, July 2007
2007 Unfolding
Composer: Becky Allen
For Vocal pieces for five singers and one guitar
Premiered at Beyond Baroque, July 2007
2006 Four Brass
Composer: Becky Allen
Brass piece for four small marching brass bands
For Look, Hear Music and Art Series
Premiered on University of Southern California campus, September 2006
2006 7 Candidates
Composer: Becky Allen
Commissioned Piece for USC Master of Fine Arts Catalogue
Released on DVD with publication,  Fall 2006
2005 USDA Barbecue
Composers: Becky Allen, David Javelosa, Julie Adler
20-minute multi-media piece for Weber Barbecues and vocals
Live premier CalArts 35th year anniversary
Roy O. Disney Hall, Valencia, CA June, 2005
2004 Ocean Wave Swell Height
Composer: Becky Allen
10-minute piece for 8 female vocalists, 2 Brazilian horns, one didgeridoo
Live premier in Los Angeles for EarJam IV new music festival at
The RedCat CalArts Theater, Los Angeles June 19, 2004
2004 Calls
Composer: Becky Allen
Live Premier in Los Angeles
For the Opening Gala of the RedCat CalArts Theater
November, 2004
2003 LA Skyline
Composers: Becky Allen and Jennifer Hill
10 minute prerecorded tape piece with sculptural installation
Premiered in Los Angeles at the American Composer’s Forum’s
“Twelfth Composer’s Salon”, Los Angeles May 18, 2003
2002 Calls
Composer: Becky Allen
14 minute commissioned piece for trumpets and birds
Installation Premier in Ieper, Belgium June 15, 2002
for “The Lost Past” Exhibition
1999 Teatro Amazonas
Director: Sharon Lockhart
Composer: Becky Allen
Commissioned film sound track for 60 person choir
Premier performance in Manuas, Brazil
Coral do amazonas on June 26, 1999
1994 Extractions
Composer: Becky Allen
Commissioned composer for premier performance of
Dance Kaleidoscope
Premiered electronic pieces in Summer 1994
1993 Khalil,Shaun, A Women under the influence
Director: Sharon Lockhart
Composer: Becky Allen
Commissioned film score for piano
Performed by Becky Allen
1986 Brontosaurus
Composer: Becky Allen
Premiered a capella vocal piece in Cambridge, MA
Performed by Hampshire College Choir

Recordings

“Calls”, produced and distributed by “The Lost Past”, Anno ’02,  Ieper, Belgium 2002
“Teatro Amazonas” sound track, produced and distributed by Trans> Magazine, 1999

Select Screenings

2006

Pineflat
Artist: Sharon Lockhart
Sound Supervisor: Becky Allen
US Premiere Sundance Film Festival, January 2006
2004 The Raft
Artist: Bill Viola
Sound artist: Becky Allen (co-artist with Mikael Sandgren and Tom Ozanich)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Premiered at the Athens Olympics Summer 2004
(The following scores composed by Becky Allen)
2002 Teatro Amazonas:
Tel-Aviv Cinemtaque Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Khalil, Shaun, A Woman Under the Influence:
Cinema Arenberg, Brussels
2001 Teatro Amazonas:
Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Paramount Theater, Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Khalil, Shaun, A Woman Under the Influence:
Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
2000 Teatro Amazonas:
Telluride International Experimenta Cinema Exposition, Denver
New York Film Festival
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Museum of Modern Art Ibaragi, Japan
International Film Festival Berlin

Khalil, Shaun, A Woman Under the Influence:
Museum of Modern Art Ibaragi, Japan
1999 Teatro Amazonas:
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Teatro del Rondo di Bacco, Palazzo Pitti, Florence
1998 Khalil, Shaun, A Woman Under the Influence:
ICA, London
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
1997 Khalil, Shaun, A Woman Under the Influence:
Vancouver Film Festival, Vancouver
1996 Khalil, Shaun, A Woman Under the Influence:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1995 Khalil, Shaun, A Woman Under the Influence:
Soho House, Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London
1994 Khalil, Shaun, A Woman Under the Influence:
Filmkunst-Studio im Schluter, neugerriemschneider, Berlin
   

Interviews and Public Lectures

Composer Interview, NPR, “Theme and Variations”, to be aired Spring ‘06
Visiting Lecturer, School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, March, 2005
Calls, Interview on NPR Europe public radio, June 15, 2002
Teatro Amazonas, Question and Answer at New York Film Festival Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center,  October 2000
Teatro Amazonas, Question and Answer at International Film Festival Berlin, December 2000
Teatro Amazonas, Question and Answer at Teatro del Rondo di Bacco, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, November 1999
Teatro Amazonas, interview with Michel Assenmaker for The Galerie “Mot & Van den Boogaard”, Brussels.  Printed for the November – December 1999 newsletter. November, 1999