For clarinet, soprano saxophone, electric guitar, video, and fixed electronics (2025). Written for Jessica Speak and Timothy Rosenberg, with affection and friendship.
For video, electronics, and sustained pitch instruments. Video and composition based on Josef Alber’s “Interaction of Color”. (2024)
Text Score:
Use any sound-making object that can make a long, sustained tone. Play long tones that harmonize with the tones in the tape, usually softly. Once you’ve started on a pitch, don’t change it while playing. Always tune with the tones in the tape to make an interesting interval. Listen more than you play. Take long pauses between each tone.
For string trio, video, and fixed electronics. Commissioned by the Amorsima Trio: Mia Detwiler, Mike Capone, and Kourtney Newton. This commission was made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by the Mellon Foundation.
For clarinet, cello, electric guitar, piano, video and electronics (2022)
For 4 vocalists, piano, cello, percussion, and electronics. Composed during residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the NYU Music Technology studios in the summer of 2021. Recorded for and released on Edition Wandelweiser Records.
Reviewed in The Wire magazine, the Squid’s Ear online magazine.
Radio play on ConcertZender.nl (Netherlands), the RTQE show on WORT (Madison), the Double Bummer show on XRAY.FM (Portland), dublab (LA) Night After Night and more.
Continue reading →Commissioned by the Amorsima Trio for their “20 New Miniatures in Reaction to Beethoven’s 250th Anniversary” program.
I had a ton of fun collaborating with artist Sky Macklay to compose a work to perform with her Harmonitrees installation at the Hand Art Center during her residency at Stetson University. I created the score in photoshop for musicians to play with the different harmonitrees:
I also interviewed Sky about her work and the installation for the Hand Art Center’s archives:
For violin, cello, piano and video. Performed by Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME). Recorded at GROUND Solyanka, Moscow, Russia December 2020. Written for Tenth International Young Composer’s Academy, Tchaikovsky City.
Landscape: Ghost (Home) is a recomposition of Landscape: Home for the Ghost Ensemble. This is another step in the ongoing interest I have to create a mimetic version of Haruki Murakami’s “over there” or “other world” in sound and image. I wrote a paper concerning this, “Mimesis, Murakami, and Multimedia Art: Parallel Worlds in Performance,” that was presented at the 40 Years of Murakami conference at Newcastle University, UK and published in Leonardo Music Journal.
Moving (1) was commissioned by the Wet Ink Ensemble and was premiered on April 24, 2019 in the Second Stage Theatre at Stetson University. Moving (1) is the first in a series of works that are focused on the sensations … Continue reading
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