Cabin Fever Orchestra is Graeme Cornies’ passion project where the lifelong television composer is reversing the usual process; instead of writing music for picture, he is creating visual art posted to Instagram, Twitter and YouTube depicting the feelings and mental states of his music.

“Worn” is the first in a series of collaborations between Cornies and the Czech National Symphony Orchestra (CNSO) to be released this year. “For me, this piece is about feeling worn, but not worn out,” Cornies explains. “It’s about feeling the wear and tear of age and experience, but also the feeling that you have so much left to contribute because of it.” Written and performed by Graeme Cornies (piano) at the end of last summer, CNSO performed their parts in Prague on Halloween of 2023. 

Cabin Fever Orchestra explores the forefront of AI and human collaboration with generative art, with Cornies expanding on orchestration ideas he found while working on other visual media, and has served to expand his network of talented instrumental collaborators. Along with his writing partners, Cornies has become one of the world’s most heard composers. The last five years have brought multiple awards from SOCAN and BMI, the Emmy Awards and the Canadian Screen Awards.