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Instrumental Music

Chamber:

  • Unconfirmed Report (2011)
    An open, graphic score based on an EKG reading of the composer's cardiac health taken in October 2009. For any number of players
  • Perfect for Ensemble  (2011)
    A perfect tiling of four consecutive points, order fifteen, length sixty. For any ensemble of two or more. Available as unison melody, hocket, etc.
  • I Think So, Too (2009)
    A six by six modular multiplication table is the basis of a twelve and a half minute treatment of expressions, developments, and variations, scored for two flutes, two Bb clarinets, two bassoons. Also available as wind quintet.
  • Ariel (2003, arr. 2009)
    Also available as a choral work, this movement for string quartet is based on the rhythms and cadences of Sylvia Plath's poem "Ariel"
  • This Is My Message to the World (2003)
    A setting of Emily Dickinson’s poem for guitar and voice
  • In Just Spring… (2003)
    A setting of e.e. cumming’s famous poem for two violins and voice
  • Songs from the Japanese (1999–2000)
    Music for many Japanese poems, each sung briefly, for soprano and violin; about 18 minutes.  May be sung as a song cycle or performed in groupings, or as solos
  • Castles and Arias (1999)
    A 7-note melody plays itself out over one movement according to a simple formula.  For chamber orchestra
  • Embodied Naked (1998)
    Music to poetry by Kabbalah scholar Elliot Wolfson: for soprano or tenor voice, piano, oboe, and cello, with a prelude and a postlude for string trio Prelude and postlude may be played on their own, separately or together, as two movements
  • Underpinnings (1998)
    A chamber orchestra plays ascending chromatic scales out of phase, describing a painting by American painter Jasper Johns
  • Your Fine Promises (1997)
    Music to Kenneth Rexroth’s translation of Fujiwara no Mototoshi’s poetry. For piano and soprano

Solo:

  • Perfect for ...  (2011)
    A perfect tiling of four consecutive points, order fifteen, length sixty. For most solo instruments
  • Lullabye  (2010)
    Composed with Howard Skempton's piano music in mind, for piano solo
  • One for Karin  (undated)
    A short, sprightly piece for piano, with an American sensibility
  • December  (2003)
    A very short, sensitive, meditative piece for piano solo
  • Organ Music  (2002)
    A virtuoso piece for organ consisting of many arpeggios and multiple canons

Choral and Voice

  • Duplets (2012)
    Duplet tilings for solo voice
  • Our Gazes (2009)
    A round in two (2) voices. Words by American poet Henry Lyman – download
  • Ariel (2003)
    SATB – Choral music for Sylvia Plath’s poem of the same name. Also available in arrangement for string quartet

Text

  • Stones/Water/Time/Breath (2012) - download

    • Electronic

    • Life Is What Happens (2010) - download
    • Portraits (1997) - download
      A suite of biographical miniatures for tape commissioned by Morton Subotnick for the radio station KUNM in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Each miniature also available separately for playback and multimedia performance. Like all music, these pieces can accompany animation, film, dance, and so forth.
    • Luciano Berio: "Sinfonierien" (Sinfonia/Cathy Berberian)
    • Thomas Buckner: "Buddhist Spouting Sadness on the Train"
    • John Cage: "Kansas Has This About It"
    • Cornelius Cardew: "1959 to 1969"
    • Henry Cowell: "Antinomy"
    • Morton Feldman: "For Morton Feldman"
    • Glenn Gould’s Goldberg, 1955: "A Gouldberg Variation"
    • Lou Harrison: "It Would Enter Invisibly…"
    • Erik Satie: "Satieated"
    • Ear Trainer (1996)
      A structured sound environment for tape/electronics