Douglas Geers
Works

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Each highlighted title in the list below is a link to a pages with more information about that piece, including program notes, audio clips, and sometimes more. Titles followed by an asterisk indicate works that are available in their entirety in MP3 format. A list of recent performances is available here, and pages with information on acquiring scores and recordings of Geers' music are available here and here.

For a quick audio taste of Geers' music, go here.

Selected Works:
Year Title Instrumentation
2007 How Long  (excerpt from in-progress opera, Calling) soprano, alto, cello, and electroacoustic music
Mere Seer Jog electroacoustic music
2006 Laugh Perfumes concerto for violin and orchestra (3,3,3,3;4,3,3,1; 2 perc; timp; strings.  Chamber version in-progress)
Outlier chamber orchestra (1,1,1,1; 1,1; piano, 1 perc; 2, 1, 1, 1)
2005 Obsessive Currents violin + computer (live electroacoustic music)
Twisted Pairings: Wired at Tip mixed ensemble + electroacoustic music
Shadow violin + computer (live electroacoustic music)
Syndrome Gear electroacoustic music
Lunar Crescent any instrument + computer (live electroacoustic music)
2004 Tremor Transducer * Flute, piano, percussion, violin, cello, and live electroacoustic music
How I Learned to Draw a Sheep Voices, electroacoustics, and piano
2003 Memory Dust * Big Band and live electroacoustic music
Exit to City berimbau and live electroacoustic music
Jugular Juices guitar, spoken word, computer
Twisted Pair eight-channel fixed media computer music
2002 Gilgamesh violin, computer, multimedia
Hannelore guitar, computer, synthesizer, percussion
Shambat amplified violin with DSP
Uruk violin and computer
2001 Ghost Sonata violin, piano, voice, electronics
Electroacoustic Video Suite/ Three Impressions computer music with video
Atomic Tango * electroacoustic music
Qunu Music for SATB choir
Enkidu Music for violin with realtime interactive processing
2000 Demons * Computer music, based on a poetry reading by Guillermo Castro
Bride of Kong Music for voices, piano, percussion, and electronics
Appliance performance installation work for violin, mechanized sculptures, and interactive computer music
Glass Wall Suite Dance suite for amplified chamber ensemble and electronics
1999 Turnstile * violin and electronics
Ten Or So shakuhachi and 4-channel electronics with video
Invisible Arms violin, electric bass, two percussion, and eight channel electronics (six channels independently mobile), with video and dance
For Rosa solo piano
Miscellaneous by Weight multitrack computer music for semi-improvisatory performance with live mixed video
1998 Reality House * violin, viola, cello, contrabass, flute, clarinet, and trombone
Echo Impressions computer music
Hole in Pocket computer music
Carol's Cliff * two percussion, piano, and live mixed electronics
Freeway Dreams computer music with optional slide projections
1997 Ripples * computer music with optional video
Theme from "The End of Something" computer music for film
Suite from "The End of Something" computer music for film
1996 Soft and Sky Melting * computer music with optional video
Sugar Cookie computer music
Blue Haikus flute, clarinet, trumpet, cello, and percussion
Amid Mirrors computer music
1995 Ken's Mistake computer music
Breath, Tongue, Fingertips solo flute
BobTalk computer music
Play of Lights computer music
1994 Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight songs for baritone, guitar, and mixed electronics