Scores @ Material Press
Helios
Imagined Environments
Dawn’s Chorus
Doubtful Sound / Cassiopeia (sketch)
Unknown Small Bird
Doubtful Sound(s): Chicago & Queen’s U. Canada
Do Not Look For Yourself Outside (sketch)
For Hands Vier Hände
Radically Different Perceptions
Berubah
Eye of the Day
The Line Theater
selected performances
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Hidden Encounters
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Ultrasonic Range Finder, Arduino, and laptop computer are hidden in a box. Sound files, and real-time alterations of sound files, are heard when people approach the vicinity of the box.Version 2 |
Hidden Encounters
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Ultrasonic Range Finder, Arduino, and laptop computer are hidden in a box. Sound files, and real-time alterations of sound files, are heard when people approach the vicinity of the box.Version 1European University Cyprus Interfaces Project |
February March
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A mix of Do Not Look For Yourself Outside and Doubtful Sound/Cassiopeia. It is part of an ongoing experimental composition project called Doubtful Sound.Composer Residency |
Doubtful Sound/ Cassiopeia
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An experimental realization of networks: social network data from dolphins and the graphic score Cassiopeia by George Cacioppo.Composer Residency |
Do Not Look For Yourself Outside
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A Disklavier plays excerpts from Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano, by John Cage, responded to by a pianist and accompanied by field recordings.Composer Residency |
Imagined Environments
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A collaborative composition characterized by improvisation based on specific animal sounds.Supported in part by the US-UK Fulbright Commission |
Radically Different Perceptions
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Recordings of unidentified animal sounds played in the staircase and among multiple floors of the buildingSupported in part by the US-UK Fulbright Commission |
For Hands Vier Hände
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Made entirely from piano recordingsRealized at the Contemporary Music Research Centre, University of York, from recordings by Patrick Wood and Ann WardeSupported in part by the US-UK Fulbright Commission |
Chambers: In Honor of Alvin Lucier, sound in large and small resonant environments (1968)
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This new version of Chambers is a compilation of individual works, each constructed as a tribute to Lucier by his former students |
Dawn’s Chorus:
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Sounds of animalsCD available from Leonardo Music Journal |
Unknown Small Bird
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Made from field recordings |
Omong-Omong: Leaning on the Moment
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Omong-Omong = conversationSupported in part by the Evergreen College Daniel J. Evans Chair Scholar Program |
Beda III (Differences)
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Version 3 of Beda |
Omong-Omong
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Based on Javanese vocal texts and melodic patterns with mixed pelog, slendro, and 12-tone equal tempered tunings. Composed for instruments built by Lou Harrison and William ColvigComposer Residency |
Beda II (Differences)
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Version 2 of Beda |
Beda I (Differences)
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Explores performance configurations and use of traditional and experimental Javanese and Western structuresSupported in part by a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Among Twenty Snowy Mountains,
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The only moving thing
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Berubah
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Berubah (change) engages performers with an almost unpredictable interactive system based on concepts of catastrophe theory.
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Eye of the Day
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Acoustical beats between tape and players are shaped during performance.
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Autumn SongThe Thousand Sounds
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Insect sounds created in the studio replaced all but one live insect’s sound in this revision of the 1991 version of Autumn Song. The 1998 version of the tape alone is The Thousand Sounds. |
Helios
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Algorithmically generated score using Lisp and Common Music |
Aurelia
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Multiple chance-based techniques and juxtaposed organ timbres applied to a hymn tuneWritten for the Womenspirit/Sisterspirit Conference, Unitarian-Universalist Church of Urbana-Champaign, Illinois |
Ammalagammala
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Re-assignment of garap (traditional playing styles) to different instruments |
Circus
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Makes use of speed changes, and voltage-controlled gating/sampling on a Buchla Series 200 analog synthesizer |
Magnolias in Rain
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Traditional Javanese pathetan music appears from a “cloud” of sound |
Flewmb
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South Indian tala and chance procedures functioned as structuring devices for the composition |
No Net
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Investigation of extended timbral ranges of specific instrument families |
Drumming
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4 pitches evoke the South Indian mrdangam (drum) |
Staring
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Follows Look!
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The Composer
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Imitation and improvisation referring to the composer and pianist Lowndes Maury
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Cloud
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Motion of performer generates acoustical beats between acoustically and electronically generated sound |
Look!
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Follows A Glimpse |
Clusters
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Extension of piano sounds through amplification
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Autumn Song
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2-channel analog tape of insect sounds recorded at Alexander Lake, CT (revised 1998) |
Light
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Chromosonics:Alexander Lake
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Computer system constructed by the composer links image color with sound playback speed |
Silliness
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Children’s theater production |
A Pearl
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Links beating frequencies and tala |
Aural Enchantment
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Acoustic imitations of recorded sounds
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Envelope
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Environmental recordings mixed indeterminately |
Imitator Radiator
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Imitation of radiator sounds by acoustic instruments |
At Home With Sound
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Structure based on timing of daily activitiesPartially funded by Meet the Composer, Inc. |
Magnifications
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Environmental sounds recorded over a period of time in the performance space are incorporated into the composition
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A Glimpse
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“Cloud” of sound |
Music for Electronic Devices
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Computer control within an unpredictable situation |
The Line Theater
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Visual movement as music |
Eight Cellos: Close Together / Far Apart
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Graphic notation: sound follows shape |
Moving Shapes
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Electronic sounds as control voltages |
Inside Lines
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Visible lines as sound |
Outside Lines
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Human movement as music |