- Mergurs Ehd Ffleweh Bq Nsolst - Ecstatic death chants from the planet Mercury. Performed by Sukato.
- Aftermath - vague, dark, ambient, questions with no answers . . . . .
- Abstraction 1 - a meditation for solo violin and drones, performed by Gabriela Diaz
- Abstraction 6 - solo saxophone, Just Intonation electronics, and hyperactive, malfunctioning laser guns, performed by Eliot Gattegno
- Out Of - solo piano and dark ambient electronics, an attempt to rise from the deep, performed by Marilyn Nonken
- NanoSymph - 4 movement sympony in one minute
- Walking Down the Hillside at Cortona, and Seeing its Towers Rise Before Me - shards of sonic stained glass for 2 microtonal pianos, performed by Jacob Barton and Ju Ri Seo
- Abstraction 2 - a meditation for piano and violin, performed by Shiau-Uen Ding and Maja Cerar
Live performance of
Meditation 4
from 3/28/09, featuring Aaron Krister Johnson on keyboard.
Live performance of Sonata from 1/23/09, featuring Jacob Rhodebeck, can be heard here:
Click
here
to hear Timelash for piano, violin, cello and clarinet, in a performance (June 2009) by the
Kolot Ensemble.
Click
here
to hear an amazing live performance of Abstraction #4 for piano, an old-school modernist kind of piece.
Shiau-Uen Ding is the remarkable (as usual) performer. Listen closely. . . after every jagged gesture a
luminous, elusively mysterious harmony resonates. I really love those chords . . .
(Here's
a MIDI version.)
While working at I-Park this past summer,
I finished an ambient application-work called Thanksgiving,
a dark, haunting piece with texts by Chicago-based writer
Molly Thorsen Connolly. (Written for
a concert of Untwelve.) If you
are a Macintosh user, you can download the ambient
app
directly, and run it to your heart's content. If you aren't a mac user, you can hear some audio
here. The voices in the piece are of
Adrienne
Hecker
and
Loren Schwerd.
Click
here
to hear a wondrous work of musique concrete that I wrote
in 2007 as part of a residence at
Harvestworks; it's a piece that remains sorta untitled; if you have an
idea for a title, let me know . . some people have let me know ideas already,
and I'm getting closer . . . .
Click
here
to hear the MIDI demo version,
or
here
to hear the live, slightly messy, but highly exciting performance of
Ditty, a silly fun thing for 2 pianos tuned in 19-TET.
Click
here
to hear an excerpt of the electric-guitar version of
Arc of Infinity, for guitar and recorded-electronics, as performed by
the amazing
Carsten Radtke, guitar. The complete performance is on an album
from Konnex Records, which you can see
here and
here.
Sonata for piano is now
available on CD. Here are some excerpts from the astounding
recording by Jacob Rhodebeck:
A CD with Balladei (for piano and electronics), in an amazing
recording by Shiau-Uen Ding, is now
available.
Click
here
to hear a short Waltz in 17-tone Equal Temperament. (for
2 pianos).
Click
here
to hear a short work for choir (also in 17-tone equal temperament), based on poetry by
John Monroe.
An exciting, new, re-mixed version of
SL II:
Ooogaaah: Dungeony Specimen Spaceship
has been released as part of the
Electric Music Collective's second album,
Defiant,
which you can purchase from amazon.com. To
hear an excerpt from the new Ooogaah, click
here.
Click
here
to hear the dress rehearsal
or
here to hear the performance of
Meditation on the Lake .
(performed by String Orchestra of New York City, Alice Tully Hall, NYC)
Improvisation I, Dein Kuss has been realized in 3 different formations. You can
hear the 3 different versions here:
Click
here
to hear the synthesized version of Improvisation II, Kiss of the Gamelan Goddess.
Click
here
to hear 8 Terrains, peformed at Cincinnati Conservatory. For 2 electric guitars, 2
piano/kbds, 2 saxes, bass and live electronics.
Click
here
to hear Piano Piece For 4 Players.
Listen to excerpts from
Ow, My Head
and
Duude. The complete works
have been released on
Incandescence,
the first album of the
Electric Music Collective, available at
amazon.com .
The SL series:
Click
here
to hear an excerpt from a recent little techno ditty, with
vocal stylings by the amazing Hilary Poriss. (This will be released soon
as part of an album of tunes . . all of which I'm presently working on. . )
Click
here
to hear a little piece
In Memoriam Lou Harrison for
MIDI instruments (Roland XV-5050).
Click
here
to hear The Quiet Play of Lights on my Grandmother's Bedroom
Ceiling for piano, 'cello, and violin.
Click
here
to hear The Quiet Play of Busy Pipes for piano, violin, cello,
electric guitar, percussion, flute and
live electronics (performed superbly by the
NeXT Ens).
Click
here
to hear Untitled for solo piano.
Click
here
to hear a "Latin" version of a passage from Mahler's
9th Symphony, 1st movement.
Click
here
to hear the theme song for the
DORKBOTNYC
electronic artists' forum.
Click
here
to hear the theme song for the
Artbots
robotic artists' forum.
Click
here
and
here
to hear some techno-ish improvs I did as The Artist Currently Known As
Ambient Tuna, part of a piece eventually to become
Prelude to Southside, which forms a massive prelude to
Brad Garton's
beautiful
Southside Silence.
an ambient piece: Columbus Day
The Stuffed Ones
a brief set of character pieces about my stuffed animals.
I
II - Variations
III - Scherzo
IV - Finale
I
II - Variations
III - Scherzo
IV - Finale
and a version of the 1st movement, tuned adaptively
to 7 limit-Just Intonation by
John DeLaubenfels, available in
MP3
format, which sounds a lot better
than the the midifile version.
Here is a live recording of the work from 1/23/09 at Bates College in Maine.
Constrained Improvisations:
(note: though all performances were excellent, for recording quality reasons, I prefer nos. 1, 3, 2, in
that order.)
Musique Concrete:
Click
here
to read about and listen to the gigantic
Sand.
Listen to excerpts from
SL I: Conceptual Study
and
SL II: Ooogaaah: Dungeony Specimen Spaceship.
The complete works have been released on the
Electric Music Collective's second album,
Defiant,
which you can purchase from amazon.com.
Click
here
to hear a fugue (Baroque-style, more or less) I wrote as an Xmas present
for someone.
Here's
a little tune I wrote in order not to scare my sister, age 4
at the time of writing.
Here
and
here
are a couple of wild techno thingies that I did a few years ago.