caticonslite_bm_altGOOGLE CHROME now everywhere


Agency: Google Creative Lab

caticonslite_bm_altHONDA perspectives


Agency: RPA Los Angeles

caticonslite_bm_altSUNDANCE narco cultura

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With editor Jay Sterrenberg, director Shaul Schwarz, and editor Bryan Chang at the Sundance Film Festival

caticonslite_bm_altBEATLES, BIRDERS, BEARS and SQUIRRELS

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It has been a tornado of activity lately and short of giving myself a Moto Guzzi for Christmas, I had to pretty much say bah humbug to the holidays. But I’ve been very fortunate to be involved with some really …

caticonslite_bm_altSAM COOKE nothing can change this love


A song to close out the year…

caticonslite_bm_altLACMA art+film gala

lacma 2012

Accompanying the lovely and talented Evan Rachel Wood in Los Angeles, Oct 27, 2012

GOOGLE john butterill’s virtual photo walks


Agency: Google Creative Lab, Director: Henry Lu

caticonslite_bm_altNEW GIRL


Montage scene from Harry Grows Up, directed by Mark Nickelsburg. The score was written for Brooklyn Rider and Anthony McGill

TRANSITIONS & the hum

Met

There are times in life when one starts to hear a certain hum. It begins as a faint buzz that can occasionally be tuned out, but then crescendoes to a point where it no longer can. At a young age …

caticonslite_bm_altGQ comedy issue


British GQ Comedy Issue (cover of the iPad edition) Directed by Gavin Bond, Edited by Owen O’Neill

caticonslite_bm_altDISCOVER movies


Agency: The Martin Agency

caticonslite_bm_altHALLMARK motherbird


Agency: Leo Burnett Chicago

caticonslite_bm_altthe big THREE

James Murphy

Best new restaurants!  Top sports plays of the week! 100 greatest guitarists of all time! There seems to be an awful lot of lists these days so I guess I’ll finish off the year with a little one of my …

GALA week

LACMA

When I decided to take some time off from the Met Opera this year, I naturally presumed that my wardrobe would do the same. Fewer tuxedos and more hoodies. Fewer shiny dress shoes, more sneakers. Like if Mr. Rogers changed …

caticonslite_bm_altBROOKLYN

Brooklyn

Photo by Gavin Bond.  Suit by Simon Spurr.

caticonslite_bm_altJT harry grows up

Harry Grows Up

A cue from the upcoming short film ”Harry Grows Up”, directed by Mark Nickelsburg.  Performed by Brooklyn Rider and Anthony McGill

up NORTH, back EAST, & out WEST

Bear Lake

After a whirlwind start to the summer that was spent in Tokyo, Los Angeles, and New York, I was happy to have one of my flights finally land at Cherry Capital Airport in Northern Michigan.  ”Up in Michigan” (as Hemingway …

caticonslite_bm_altJT nautical lullaby

thesea

Song for Ernest Shackleton, or what I imagine Emily might have sung to him before he departed (minus the theremin solo of course).  All parts performed and recorded by Jeremy Turner. Mixed by Abe Seiferth.

caticonslite_bm_altLEAVING THE ISLAND


Short film directed by Lance Ferguson. Music composed, performed, and recorded in collaboration with Abe Seiferth at Spacebar Studios in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

caticonslite_bm_altland of the RISING SUN

Nippon

Sorta like the Olympics, the World Cup, or a Presidential Election (unless you live under the rule of a brutal dictator) The Metropolitan Opera visits the island nation of Japan every four or five years.  I always look forward to visiting …

caticonslite_bm_altMAINE

Jump!

Ogunquit Beach, ME, 2009

caticonslite_bm_altHEAR JT is here

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Welcome to hearjtcom!  Hear you will you will find music, film and commercial scores, photos, and occasional musings by composer and musician Jeremy Turner.  There will be much more to come in the days and weeks ahead, but in the …

caticonslite_bm_altSCARY samples

I wanna play violin!

Just as Garageband and an iPad can turn the average 10 year old into a musical genius- “Honey look!  Little Jimmy has recorded a full length pop album without even playing any instruments!”-some of the samples and programs that are …

caticonslite_bm_altGREY skies above

The Empire State Building....what you can't see it?

You know those people who say it rains all the time in Seattle?  That you’d never want to live there.  That you can go weeks without ever seeing the sun.  And that the reason grunge was so grungy, was a …

caticonslite_bm_altgood MUD

Fine Mud

How best to prepare for the final week of the opera season?  Why, go run a Tough Mudder of course!  Tramping 10 miles on Mt. Snow, climbing 7,000 vertical ft, and completing 28 obstacles makes playing Die Walkure seem fairly …

caticonslite_bm_altthe way of the GEMINI

Gemini

I’ve never been into astrology, but I suppose that being a Gemini has it’s advantages.  This past month I’ve played so many different parts that at times I’ve felt like Val Kilmer’s character in The Saint.  (What, you didn’t see …

caticonslite_bm_altMIND GAMES


Short film directed by Gavin Bond for Bullett Magazine in association with Simon Spurr

caticonslite_bm_altNEW YORK

Wabbits Session

Apparently a deep moment of reflection while conducting members of The New York Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for the GEICO Wabbits session.  Avatar Studios, 2009

caticonslite_bm_altMARLIN DRIXAN framed alive

Screen shot 2011-04-19 at 12.32.27 AM

caticonslite_bm_altJT intermission

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What happens when you mix a Casio SK-1, a lap steel guitar, and an old cuban sample from an M Tron?

caticonslite_bm_altDVORAK silent woods

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The Auckland Philharmonia with Jeremy Turner, cello and Marc Taddei, conductor Live Performance from Radio NZ, December 18th, 2005

caticonslite_bm_altGOOGLE parisian love


Agency: Google Creative Lab

caticonslite_bm_altGEICO wabbits


Agency: The Martin Agency

caticonslite_bm_altEXPIRATION


Award winning short film directed by Mark Nicklesburg

caticonslite_bm_altTOYOTA prius projects


Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi LA

MCDONALD’S wake up


Agency: Leo Burnett London

REESE’S doll


Agency: Arnold Worldwide

caticonslite_bm_altAUTISM SPEAKS times have changed


Agency: BBDO New York

caticonslite_bm_altHALLMARK grandpa


Agency: Leo Burnett Chicago

caticonslite_bm_altAUCKLAND, NZ

Town Hall

With the Auckland Philharmonia at Town Hall, 2005

caticonslite_bm_altMARLIN DRIXAN night of the ninth

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caticonslite_bm_altNEW YORK

JT

New York City, 2005

caticonslite_bm_altMICHIGAN

Playback

Circles Are Landing sessions, barn in Northern Michigan, 2004