brad muirhead music

creative bass-trombonist & sousaphonist, improvisor, recording artist, composer, interdisciplinary performance artist

photo: Graham Ord / BM

Music from Brad’s projects - originals & features

Brad’s main projects have their own pages:

Urban Bandscape demo

There’s No Place Like No Place

Colin MacDonald’s Pocket Orchestra

“Critical Mass” © Brad Muirhead 2019

  • It is recommended to listen to the music alone before viewing the video version. The intent of the piece is “order from chaos, once a limit of tolerance is reached” (or something like that)… The video accompaniment is cool & fun but suggests a different, somewhat similar, theme…

Critical Mass
© BM 2019 / compilation recording 2021 ~ 2022

Watch on Vimeo for full credits: https://vimeo.com/725035875

TREESONG BRASS - one of Brad’s covid iso-projects: Otherwise unrecorded Treesong music multitracked on bass trombone - each track EQ’d to mimic the Fuhorn it replaces.

A Celtic ballad (along with some pics from the family vacation) composed on the Isle of Skye in 2018. The Gaelic title translates to “There Are No Trees”.

PROPULSION (Brad - sousaphone)

2860 BC
© BM 2008 / 2013 demo recording
The Lone Crow
© BM 2012 / 2013 demo recording
24th & Fraser
© BM c. 1989 / 2013 demo recording

New Orchestra Workshop (NOW)

23 Bamboo
Brad Muirhead 2021 / inspired by Douglas R. Ewart short text for the collage film "Eternally Now"

YouTube link to “Eternally Now”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfRXp_b_Uew

Additive trio collaboration with Maggie Brown, John Paton - online concert series 2021

Additive sextet with Darius Savage, Yves Chaurest, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, John Paton, Maggie Brown - online concert series 2021

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IDVERB (music & spoken word)

Collage of Short Pieces
(text: Kedrick James / music: Idverb) 2014 demo recording
Charmed Shut-ins
(music: Kedrick James & Brad Muirhead / text: Kedrick James) 2014 demo recording
The Hanging Man
(text: Sylvia Plath / music: Idverb) 2014 demo recording
The Phoenix and the Turtle
(music: Brad Muirhead / text: Shakespeare) 2014 demo recording

KOAN (Chinese & jazz influenced world music)

Erhu Blue
© BM 2007 from the CD "Who Hears?"(2009)
East South West
© Jared Burrows 2007 / Koan demo recording (2008)
Burmese Python
Koan - improvisation (2007)
Chang E's Dance
© BM 2008 / from the CD "Who Hears?"(2009)
Who Hears?
© BM 2009 / from the CD "Who Hears?"(2009)

PRIMAL ORBIT

Rosie, Norma & Hugh
(BM 1996) from the CD "Ignition" (2002)
The Gentle Reminder
(BM c. 2000) from the CD "Ignition" (2002)

EAST VAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA

In
© BM 1999 / live performance, 2007

BRASS ROOTS (Brad - sousaphone)

24th & Fraser
© BM c. 1989 / from the CD "BRASS ROOTS" (1992)
Tuba Ruba
© Dennis Esson 1991 / from the CD "BRASS ROOTS" (1992)
Wallowin'
© BM c. 1989 / from the CD "Laconda Rift" (1993)

MISC.

Heavy Traffic (revision of the BRASS ROOTS original)
© BM 1992 / revised 2008 / Brad's Hockey Night In Canada theme song submission
The Oasis
© BM 2008 / composed for Youth In Motion Dance Company