"Fair is foul and foul is fair.
Hover through the fog and filthy air."
* * *– William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 3
Henry Fuseli, The Weird Sisters (c. 1783), oil on canvas
Credit: Royal Shakespeare Company Collection {Art UK}
Mirrors in the Mind (1988) is a digital collage of incidental music I composed for a 1987 University of Notre Dame Theatre production of William Shakespeare's Macbeth (c.1606). The original incidental music was generated on a Synclavier II, an early digital sampling workstation by New England Digital. The work was produced in the University of Southern California School of Music's Synclavier Studio. The following year, I composed this collage for 8-track analogue tape at the Northwestern University School of Music's Electronic Music Studio. The work was digitally remastered in 2026 at the University of South Carolina School of Music's Experimental Music Studio. The work is dedicated to my father Reginald F. Bain, Sr.å
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* * *– William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 3
Folger Shakespeare Library, Macbeth {Folger.edu}
Fuseli, The Weird Sisters (c. 1783) {Art UK}
University of Notre Dame, Theatre Chronology 1986-1987, William Shakespeare's Macbeth, April 20-May 3, 1987. {Notre Dame}
The original incidental music was written for a Notre Dame/Saint Mary’s Theatre production of Shakespeare's Macbeth. The production, which was directed by my father Reginald F. Bain, Sr., took place on April 20-May 3, 1987 at the University of Notre Dame's Washington Hall. (Notre Dame, IN). The world premiere of Mirrors in the Mind, for 8-track tape, took place in the spring of 1988 at Northwestern University's Pick-Staiger Concert Hall (Evanston, IL) .
Updated: March 2, 2026