Category Archives: Multimedia

After Hours in the Parlour Room

By Sam L. Richards | Published: October 30, 2009
At long last, I’ve secured a video recording of the University of Oregon Repertory Dance Company’s performance of After Hours in The Parlour Room, featuring music I composed in collaboration with choreographer, Alex Taylor. Featured in this performance are dancers Emily Baumann, Karta Purkh Khalsa, and Emily Leonard. This recording is from the Saturday, April [...]
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Faster Than a Speeding Bullet, Performance Video

By Sam L. Richards | Published: September 27, 2009
I have posted a low quality video of the dance performance at the Faster Than A Speeding Bullet reception this last Friday, September 25th. Other than being a rather cramped space for dancers to perform in, I think it all went rather smoothly. Click here, or the picture below for a video featuring the entire [...]
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There Are No Words Here

By Sam L. Richards | Published: August 20, 2009
After months of being side-tracked with projects (very worthwhile ones, I might add), I have finally got around to editing the video and audio recordings of ECCE’s ANIMA concert that occurred in May of ‘09. Besides being the artistic director and curator, my own contribution to the program was a piece for solo viola, with choreography [...]
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Death Rides a Horse

By Sam L. Richards | Published: July 23, 2009
Hot on the heels of the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium was the live performance of an original score written by Gracin Dorsey and myself for the spaghetti western classic, Death Rides a Horse. As stated on the film’s Wikipedia entry, the film has landed itself a special place in popular culture, not to mention [...]
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ECCE-:-ANIMA

By Sam L. Richards | Published: May 18, 2009
  As the director of the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble (ECCE), I am thrilled to announce its latest production: ANIMA. A concert of new compositions and choreography created in collaboration between graduate students of the School of Music and Dance at the University of Oregon. Two showings, May 29 and 30th @ 7:30pm in the newly constructed multimedia and [...]
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Tall movies (and other dimensions too!)

By Sam L. Richards | Published: May 4, 2009
I think most of us have experienced the frustration of shooting a film, and then, considering our familiarity with still cameras, try to turn the video camera on its side to change the orientation to a “portrait.” Alas. As we all know, that never works, and if we don’t catch ourselves before we get too [...]
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Performances, April 17th & 18th

By Sam L. Richards | Published: April 11, 2009
Next weekend, April 17th and 18th, two of my works will be performed as part of the UORDC’s spring concert: The More We Get Together, a collaboration with choreographer Valerie Ifill, and After Hours in The Parlour Room, a collaboration with Alex Taylor. Come see the work of the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance Faculty along [...]
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