COMPOSITION
(songwriter project releases documented here.)
Chamber Pieces
Gather, Together
Released as a studio album in July, 2018, Gather began as an immersive concert featuring video art, sets design, and audience interaction. To see/read more about the project, hear the full album, and view and the music videos, click here. Below a selection from the original staging, performed by Justin Park.
There Are No Words
Composed for a concert in the Beinecke Library exhibition on the Harlem Renaissance, this duet for marimbas is a response to photographs of the "Silent Parade" of 1917, which was one of the first major protests to jim crow. A crowd of thousands of African-Americans gathered on 59th St. and marched in silence down 5th Avenue in a powerful gesture of solidarity. Performed by Matt Keown and Jeff Stern
No One Owns The Water
Jack was commissioned to compose a piece responding to the Yale University Art Gallery's exhibition on the Yosemite Valley. The result wastes piece for two classical guitars, upright bass and cello.
Thinking Too Much or Not Thinking At All
Composed in 2016, this duet for prepared nylon string guitars was part of a multi-movement piece titled “I’ve Only Been Young.” Both parts performed here by Jack.
Film Scores
Olive & Lynn
A short film written and directed by Helen Handelman (2021)
Jack’s music, which features Jasper Dutz on clarinets, won honorable mention for best original score at the Independent Shorts Awards
Freehand
A short film written and directed by Adam Turkel (2018)
A police sketch artist works with the survivor of a sexual assault to come up with a drawing of the suspect.
tailor shop
A short film written and directed by Giovanni Pugliese (2020)
A tailor relives the memories of an old love as he prepares to retire and sell the shop that he has once called home.
Official Selection of Indie Short Fest 2020 & and IndieX Film Festival 2020 award winner.
39 Across
A short film written and directed by Adam Turkel (2016)
A housewife begins to suspect her husband's fidelity when she encounters a frightening clue in a crossword puzzle.
Leaves and Grass
Video art project by Jack Broza and Leonard Galmon
Leaves and Grass was a spontaneous and collaborative artistic collaboration with painter Leonard Galmon. The 18 minute video, is constructed in four sections; the first two flow directly into each other, there is a moment of silence at the midpoint, and then last pair unfolds continuously to a dramatic finish. The musical composition blends live instruments -- violin, cello, clarinet, guitar, piano, drum kit, voices -- into dense studio soundscapes that integrate synthesizers, voices, and noise.