Jesse Olsen Bay

Jesse Olsen Bay has been composing for contemporary dance for over 20 years, scoring dozens of pieces by leading choreographers and receiving numerous awards and grants, including two Isadora Duncan Awards. He has also composed scores for several full-length films, and numerous shorts.

Below, you can find excerpts from some of Jesse's work for dance, film, and other media, demonstrating the range of his composition and sound design. Jesse is available to create original music for any project, and also has a library of over 100 original compositions, most of which are available for licensing/placement. Email tangledmusic@gmail.com for more information.

“Container Quartet” (2013) from the dance piece Harboring by Project Bandaloop.

“Adagio” (2014) from the dance piece Narawala by Tanya Bello/Project B.

“Promiscuity” (2011) from the dance piece The Rambler by Joe Goode Performance Group.

"Diving Music" (2013) from the dance piece Where We Will Turn by the Dance Exchange.

Searching for a vitality and tautness of image, created by the coexistence of sound/silence and movement/stillness. What narratives and landscape are created by these juxtapositions and confluences? Vibrations of light and air, each ripe with its own emotional and cultural meaning, resonating and reverberating together into a state of higher complexity, greater than the sum of its parts...