Author Archives: Mike Conley

Attempts On Her Life Soundtrack List

A lot of people have been asking for a track listing for the songs that we used in Attempts.

Clearly, I can’t put up any of the songs for download, but here is a list of the music that we used…I think I have this right:

  1. Backdrifts – Radiohead
  2. Creep (acoustic live version) – Radiohead
  3. How it Ends – Devotchka
  4. Hyperballad – Bjork
  5. Dream Theatre – Infected Mushroom
  6. Rippin Kitten –  Golden Boy With Miss Kittin “Rippin kitten” (Glove tension dub mix)
  7. Blue Moon – Cowboy Junkies
  8. An Ending (ascent) – Brian Eno
  9. Days Go By (Mitsubishi Eclipse Remix) – Dirty Vegas
  10. Posed to Death – The Faint
  11. Song of Imaginary Beings – IAMX
  12. Creep – Radiohead
  13. Neon Bible – The Arcade Fire
  14. Idioteque – Radiohead
  15. Like Spinning Plates – Radiohead
  16. Proton Candy  – Metro Area
  17. You Look Like Rain – Morphine
  18. Seventeen – Ladytron
  19. Life in Technicolor – Coldplay
  20. Cold Wind – The Arcade Fire
  21. Une Annee Sans Lumiere – The Arcade Fire
  22. Politik – Coldplay

The two original songs that I wrote for the play will be posted soon.  Keep checking back.

Attempts On Her Life photos

Hey all – this past weekend, the show I’ve been working on at the UCDP called Attempts On Her Life wrapped up.  I’m really proud to have worked on this show – it is, without a doubt, one of the most visually stunning pieces I’ve ever worked on.  Just to give a glimpse of what the show was, here are some photos from the show.  Thanks to Douglas Hamilton for permission to post these.

Attempts On Her Life Pic 1

Alex and Tara

Tom and Tara

Tom and Tara

The Camera Loves You

The Camera Loves You

Chantelle

Chantelle

Dress Rehearsal

Rehearsal - lots of computational power in this play...

I worked on sound design, and composed original music for this piece.

I’ve been asked by a few people to post the soundtrack for the show.  I’ll hopefully do that within the next few days.

Open Auditions for Toronto Student Production

Some buddies of mine are holding auditions for a  student production that they’re putting on called The Imbalance of Life here in Toronto at UofT.

Fellow UCDP students Mike Clarke and Tom Davis are holding auditions on the following dates:

Wednesday, Feb 11:  2PM-4PM, 7:30PM – 9PM  (TOMORROW!)

Thursday, Feb 12: 6PM-10PM

I know it’s short notice, but I just found out myself.

Anyhow, email trinity.dramatic.society@gmail.com if you’re interested in getting a time slot.  And they’re also looking for crew as well as cast, so if you’re technically inclined, and want to get involved, send them an email.

Model-View-Controller in PHP: View

I’ve been programming in PHP for a few years now, and after being exposed to MVC through Ruby on Rails back in 2007, I came to realize that I liked the idea of keeping the presentation of data separate from the manipulation of data.

So I built a View class.  Download View Class

Usage:

$view = new View('views/main_page.tpl', array(
       'some_var' => 'This will be assigned to $some_var in the view'));
$view->render();

And like that, data presentation is separated from data manipulation.

Piece of cake.