Dinner Date

A sparse restaurant.
The place is fairly empty except for a woman sitting a table. She stands out in the environment in a red dress, her hair big, teased, and backcombed, resembling a lion’s mane. Over her shoulders she wears a fur stole. This is OLIVIA.

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Stains

You remember that night, right? I spent all those years trying
to get you to notice me. It felt like torture, and you’d just
walk by me without noticing me. I’d just stand there like an
idiot wondering what to do next. I’m glad you finally started
looking at me once we grew up, I don’t know what I would’ve done if we weren’t … Are we still awake?

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Restoring Romeo

Restoring Romeo The script won second place in the William Faulkner Literary Competition: One-Act Play, New Albany, Mississippi, 2022 and is published in "London: Smoke, Blokes and Jokes of Foggy Town", Red Penguin, 2022. There have been Zoom readings in New York, Nashville, West Hollywood, Cocoa Beach (Florida), West Hollywood and Paris (France). Celebrated actor… Read More

Suite for String Orchestra

https://apricitymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Suite_for_String_Orchestra_and_Piano.wav 'Suite for String Orchestra' is a an original contemporary orchestra composition score with audio. Creator Commentary Patrick Riley, though an undiscovered compositional voice, has been a very active educator and performer of music throughout his career. As a composer, Riley often attempts to incorporate elements of the styles he performed frequently, which include jazz,… Read More

A Sound Premise

Creator Commentary Patrick Riley, though an undiscovered compositional voice, has been a very active educator and performer of music throughout his career. As a composer, Riley often attempts to incorporate elements of the styles he performed frequently, which include jazz, Latin, and rock. Riley’s compositions are vastly worthy of musical and intellectual analysis for his… Read More

Tendai Rinos Mwanaka Compositions

These Imitations https://apricitymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Tendai_Mwanaka_These_Intimations_Instrumental.mp3 Logbook Written By a Drifter https://apricitymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Logbook_written_by_a_drifter.mp3 Huya Titambe https://apricitymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Huya_Titambe.mp3 These compositions consist of Marimba inspired music, that combines several keyboard sounds like Flute, Horn, Harp, bells, sticks, drums etc and poetry Credits Tendai Rinos Mwanaka is a multidisciplinary artist who works across several forms, literary, musical and visual. Tendai Rinos Mwanaka Compositions… Read More

And Maybe A River Will Come

Rose is convinced that she had found the promised land and crosses the desert with a band of followers to settle on it. When they arrive and there is no water source, they are skeptical of Rose’s sanity, who is trying to convince them that if they build the town, the river will come shortly after.

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Girth

A 50-something woman is about to undergo a rather personal medical procedure and her new 40-something boyfriend is not sure how he feels about it – as if it’s any of his decision?

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long radio

‘long radio’ is a sound tapestry marrying analog feedback and electronics with manually arranged loops, originally recorded on cassette tape. It features FM radio, feedback mixing, saxophones, micro cassette, the human voice, and a hardware synth keyboard burying and reviving each other in a rotating manner.

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