I really wish I can say more than “I am developing a non-musical ensemble comedy about California’s Proposition 8.”

Often, people will ask me, “What are you working on next?” to which I respond with “an ensemble comedy about Prop 8.”

“Oh, cool! A musical about Prop 8!”
“No, that’s been done. This is a non-musical.”

It’s always around that point when they lose interest, which is why I make sure to say “non-musical”, now. I know I probably shot myself in the foot by doing two musicals in a row, but I think that Clockwise is going to kick ass, but I’m keeping my mouth shut for a while. In the meantime, here are a bunch of videos to whet your appetite.

Melodica will be my fourth album and will be recorded using binaural microphones for a 3D headphone experience. It isn’t necessary to use headphones to listen to the new album, but you won’t experience the spatial recordings as I recorded them unless you do so. Plus, it’ll sound pretty frickin’ cool.

Here is a flattened, non-binaural recording of one of the tracks from Melodica.

IT’S BEEN A LONG DAY

ersatzdesign.com

ersatzdesign is
Mark Del Lima, Jef Cunningham, Keiko Chaffee and H.P. Mendoza

ersatzdesign has been the design company behind high profile ad campaigns, national educational campaigns and next generation video-games.

ersatzdesign is branching out into different territory, now, with film–feature and short, narrative, documentary and experimental.

ersatzfilm has been formed with Fruit Fly being its first project.

under construction.

www.ersatzdesign.com

H.P. Mendoza

Films

* 2006 – Colma: The Musical – screenwriter, lyricist, composer, actor
* 2007 – Option 3 – screenwriter, lyricist, composer, editor
* 2008 – Abuela – co-director, composer
* 2008 – Fruit Fly – director, screenwriter, lyricist, composer, editor, actor
* 2008 – Great Hymn of Thanksgiving/Conversation Storm – co-director, cinematographer, editor
* 2009 – A Lower Power – composer
* 2009 – PIA – actor, sound designer
* 2009 – Blossom – composer
* 2009 – Victor Yang – sound editor
* 2010 – Clockwise (IN DEVELOPMENT) – director, screenwriter

Television

* 2009 – LALA (TV) – director, composer, editor (8 episodes)

Theater

* 2004 – Magic At – co-writer
* 2007 – The Necessity of Hank – cinematographer
* 2008 – I’m Yours! (or Deranged by Love) – lyricist, composer, musical director

Discography

* 2003 – Family (limited release)
* 2004 – Everything is Pop
* 2006 – Nomad
* 2007 – Colma: The Musical (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
* 2007 – Whiskey and Wine (limited release 2CD set)
* 2008 – Fruit Fly (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
* 2009 – Elsewhere
* 2010 – Melodica

H.P. Mendoza on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.P._Mendoza

H.P. Mendoza on IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2208558/

H.P. Mendoza can be contacted via e-mail at hp@hpmendoza.com

H. P. Mendoza (born March 13, 1977, San Francisco, California) is a Filipino American writer-director, and singer-songwriter based in San Francisco best known as the screenwriter and composer for the film Colma: The Musical, directed by Richard Wong. In 2006, he was listed as one of the Top 15 Creative Talents of 2006 by UCLA Asia Pacific Arts. His most recent work, Fruit Fly, premiered on March 15, 2009 at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and is the winner of their Best Narrative Feature Audience Award. Fruit Fly is his directorial debut.