"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 an electronic collage of incidental music I composed for a 1987 production of William Shakespeare's Macbeth (c.1606). The original incidental music was composed on a Synclavier II, an early digital sampling workstation by New England Digital, at the University of Southern California School of Music's Synclavier Studio. The following year, I composed this collage on 8-track tape at the Northwestern University School of Music's Electronic Music Studio. This work was digitally remastered in 2026 at the University of South Carolina School of Music's Experimental Music Studio.
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– William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 3
Fuseli, The Weird Sisters (c. 1783) {Art UK}
Pilkington, University of Notre Dame, Theatre Chronology 1986-1987, William Shakespeare's Macbeth, April 20 – May 3, 1987. {Notre Dame}
Wikipedia, Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The original Incidental Music for Shakespeare's Macbeth was composed for a Notre Dame/Saint Mary’s Theatre production of Shakespeare's Macbeth which directed by my father Reginald F. Bain, Sr. The production took place at the University of Notre Dame, Washington Hall, April 20 – May 3, 1987. The world premiere of Mirrors in the Mind, for 8-track tape, took place at Northwestern University's Pick-Staiger Concert Hall (Evanston, IL) in the spring of 1988.
Updated: January 4, 2025