LSTN

Digital  Playback

Listen closely… (2009) This uses field recordings of rock concerts, a street preacher and subway drummers as the material.

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Conlon’s Pet Monkey (2007) I imagined what it would be like if Conlon Nancarrow had a pet monkey and what it might sound like if the monkey played the piano simultaneous to Nancarrow’s piano rolls.

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Permanent Press (2003) This whole work is built off of a super-long sample and hold sound file I recorded from an old school Steiner synthesizer. The music traverses with the sample through a sea of manipulations and time compressions/expansions.

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

coloratura (2003) I ripped an interview from Maria Callas being interviewed by Edward Downes. “It isn’t enough to have a beautiful voice.”

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Instrument(s) and Electronics

Corps Sonore (for percussion and digital playback) (2011)

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

  • Premiere by Bill Solomon at Billings Forge, Hartford, CT (Hartford New Music Festival). April 15, 2011.

riff(s) and/or transfiguration(s) (for trombone, keyboards, percussion, clock radios and digital playback) (2011)

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

  • Premiere by Benjamin Herrington (trombone), Geoffrey Burleson (keyboards) and John Ferrari (percussion) at Taplin Hall, Princeton University. April 1, 2011.

Posso Volare! (for violin and digital playback) (2010)

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

  • Recorded by Yohanan Chendler, violin at BEAMS

Dixie Highway (for vocalist/speaker/keyboard, guitarist/computer) (2007-8)

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

  • Performance at the Hartt Art School in Hartford, CT with Matt Sargent on guitar and Peter Lane on another computer.

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

 (2007)

  • Recording session, with me at the piano and Roth Michaels at the sound board.

“What is this? A damn rodeo?” (for clarinet, string quartet, drumkit, disklavier and live electronics) (2004)

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

    • Performance with University of Utah New Music Ensemble

Chamber

 

wltz(loop)frgmnt(s) (for trombone, clarinet/bass clarinet, keyboard (piano, synthesizer), percussion, violin and double bass) (2010). It was composed as part of the Yale School of Music’s Norfolk New Music Workshop. I took the convention of the waltz as a point of departure.

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

 

  • Premiere performance by the Norfolk Contemporary Ensemble (Hleb Kanasevich, clarinet; Matthew Wright, trombone; Daniel Walden, keyboard; Mari Yoshinaga, percussion; Emily Westell, violin; Brian Ellingsen, double bass; conducted by Julian Pellicano). Norfolk, CT, June 25, 2010.

 

Flux Flummoxed (for piano and violin) (2009). This large-scale multi-movement work was written for two all-time best friends and collaborators of mine: Ben Sung and Jihye Chang. Each movement explores the ideas associated with the scientific term of “flux”. I. Entropic March; II.Momentum perpetuum ; III. Electrostatic; IV. Flux Capacitor.

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

 

  • Premiere performance by Ben Sung (violin) and Jihye Chang (piano). Minnesota State University at Moorhead, April 19,2010.

 

No Epiphanies Yet (Stumped) (for flute/alto flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, percussion and guitar) (2009)

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

 

  • Performance by ICE (Eric Lamb, flute/alto flute; Joshua Rubin, clarinet/bass clarinet; Dan Lippel, guitar; David Schotzko, percussion; conducted by Jacob Greenberg) January 30, 2010.

 

clouds and sparks (for string quartet, clarinet and piano) (2009)

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

 

  • Premiered at New Music Brandeis, Feb.2009 with the Lydian String Quartet, Rani Moore (Clarinet) and Yukiko Takagi (piano) conducted by Jeff Means

 

non-corporeal self-portrait (for tenor sax, horn, trombone and viola) (2008)

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

 

  • Premiered at New Music Brandeis, May 2008 by members of White Rabbit and UV Ray (viola), conducted by Eric Hewitt

 

skewampity_widget (for flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, percussion, piano, violin and cello)(2008)

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

 

  • Premiered at New Music Brandeis, February 2008 by ECCE (East Coast Contemporary Ensemble).

 

The Uninhibited Flows of Tubular Waters (for flute/piccolo, flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, trombone and amplified piano (2006)

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

(for flute/piccolo, flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, trombone and amplified piano (2006)

 

  • Performed in spring 2007, University of Louisville New Music Ensemble, conducted by Sarah Danyi.

 

Amazing Effort Crystallized (for soprano, violin, cello and piano) (2006)

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

 

  • Performance by Arsenal Trio (Benjamin Sung, violin; Hrant Parsamian, cello and Jihye Chang, piano) with Emily Hindrichs, soprano. Comstock Hall, Louisville, KY.