The composer Nate Wooley, who views his trumpet as a "sound-making machine," performs his score in a corner.
During the last two decades, Philip Glass and his ensemble have toured widely, performing his scores for "Koyaanisqatsi" and other films, with the films projected above the band.
To carve out its niche in a crowded festival circuit, Middleburg will spotlight film music: Composer Mark Isham ("Crash," "42") will be honored this year, with the Shenandoah Conservatory performing his scores live to projected film clips.
The early-music specialist and composer William Lyons and his small band perform his score – from its opening trumpet fanfares to its final dance and flourishes – in Jacobean costume, from the balcony directly above the stage.
In 1972 he composed the multimedia opera Four Letter Scenes from Gulliver using equal tempered 12-, 16-, 16-, and 23-tone scales; a synthesizer was required to perform his score.
Its soundtrack fared no better: Zappa was poised to perform his score for the movie with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall in February of that year, but the RAH, appalled by the piece's lyrical preoccupations, cancelled the concert at three days' notice, dismissing it as "filth for filth's sake".
For End of Ages, Larkin was unable to afford a full orchestra to perform his score, so he combined individual instrumentation with an array of synthesizers.
Loren Dempster performs his rich score with his father, Stuart.
"HeavyLight" was a collaboration with the composer Steven Mackey, whose ensemble, Mosaic, performs his meandering anecdotal score, and with the video artist Andrea Star Reese.
Luke Bateman who plays one of these creatures also performs his own attractive score in which water phone and Tibetan music bowl add startling shimmers of the uncanny.
