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March 13, 2023
World Premiere film release of 1939 today.
Very proud of everyone involved!
Details at Stratford@home
World Premiere film release of 1939 today.
Very proud of everyone involved!
Details at Stratford@home
April 16, 2022
Wayne has been invited to return to Stratford this season as composer/sound designer for the world premiere of Jani Lauzon / Kaitlyn Riordan's play 1939. Previews start in late August. Runs from August 23rd till October 29th.
Wayne has been invited to return to Stratford this season as composer/sound designer for the world premiere of Jani Lauzon / Kaitlyn Riordan's play 1939. Previews start in late August. Runs from August 23rd till October 29th.
Feb 11, 2022
This is Wayne's latest release of jazz piano standards!
This is Wayne's latest release of jazz piano standards!
Bio
Wayne Kelso has spent the last thirty years performing, composing and producing. He has toured throughout North America with a diverse group of performers, including José Feliciano, Jimmy Rankin, Michael Burgess, Kim Stockwood, Dianne Heatherington, and Billy Newton-Davis.
As a composer, Wayne has written scores for numerous plays for both CBC and live theatre. His score for Factory Theatre's production of 'The Leisure Society' was nominated for a Dora award in 2005.
Wayne is keenly interested in the relationship of visual imagery and music. He has spent the last seventeen years developing a real time software animation engine that explores the possibilities of this new form of artistic expression.
A complete list of credits can be found here.
As a composer, Wayne has written scores for numerous plays for both CBC and live theatre. His score for Factory Theatre's production of 'The Leisure Society' was nominated for a Dora award in 2005.
Wayne is keenly interested in the relationship of visual imagery and music. He has spent the last seventeen years developing a real time software animation engine that explores the possibilities of this new form of artistic expression.
A complete list of credits can be found here.
Listen
Selected Compositional Works for Live Theatre
Selected Works as Music Producer / Arranger
Find Me - written/performed by Jennifer McIntosh
Come Back This Way - written/performed by Ryan Van Belleghem
I Don't See You At All - written/performed by The Tone Crooks
The Joke - cover/performed by Missy Jacobson
Angel Eyes - written by Gord MacBain feat. Jason Simmons
Till You're Mine - written by Gord MacBain feat. Jason Simmons
All Over You - written by Gord MacBain feat. Laura Lynn Mergel
Watch - Solo/Trio Jazz Piano
Transcriptions
A complete transcription of Wayne Kelso's solo piano recording of Jimi Hendrix's classic song 'Little Wing'.
- 9 pages
- Level: Advanced
- Format: pdf
- File Size: 218K
Visual Music
Wayne has always been a keen student of the symbiotic relationship between music and light. As a young boy, he was fascinated by the piano players who performed live to silent pictures. He wondered if it would be possible to invert that relationship by empowering the pianist to somehow paint onto the screen the visual imagery that musicians hold in their mind's eye.
In 1995, Wayne began his journey. Completely self taught, he immersed himself in various computer programming languages and 3D animation theory and set out to build a real time software animation engine uniquely suited to his own musical and visual sensibilities.
The work has evolved over the years alongside of the technological advancements of 3D graphics hardware. Wayne is currently experimenting with a new musical deep learning / neural net interface that shows promising results….stay tuned!
In 1995, Wayne began his journey. Completely self taught, he immersed himself in various computer programming languages and 3D animation theory and set out to build a real time software animation engine uniquely suited to his own musical and visual sensibilities.
The work has evolved over the years alongside of the technological advancements of 3D graphics hardware. Wayne is currently experimenting with a new musical deep learning / neural net interface that shows promising results….stay tuned!