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Assemblage of Gears
Fall 2006 – Winter 2007 for flute, clarinet, piano, electric guitar and double bass It seems that the ways in which we have come to work and play have propelled us away from our physicality. I find physical experience can act as a panacea to the frustration of both existential angst and the skeptical approach…
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Etchings in Ice
Fall 2005 – Spring 2006 for 3 disklaviers, string ensemble and 8 speakers / electronics Etchings in Ice is inspired in form and content by the sport of figure skating. The piece as a whole represents the preparation and presentation of a figure skating routine, the movements symbolize practice of the sport’s more prominent skills.…
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Antiprism
ummer – Fall 2005 for guitar and computer; 9:30 The idea for Antiprism was inspired during a session with a percussionist friend of mine in which we were exploring the sounds of traditional instruments played with alternate techniques. At one point, the percussionist began striking a ride cymbal with a soft mallet and at the…
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Cycle of the Nonstarter
Summer – Fall 2005 for trumpet, piano and drum set
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Birth of a Machine
Winter – Spring 2005 4 channel recording; 11:30 Birth of a Machine is a story about mechanical soul searching. The first section is a gestation period; a stage for pre-developmental processes. The second section represents the fruition of this development as numerous fully-formed ideas strive for prominence through various cycles of combination and isolation. Musically,…
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Deliberation
Winter 2005 4 channel recording; 6:22 The idea of the piece is one of stasis; of the avoidance of assertive and dramatic gestures. A small number of sound sournces linked by continuous paths creates a form without distinct segments. The interest lies in the subtleties of this journey voiced by pitch change, timbral difference and…
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other works
Process in Autumn (Fall 2004) for flute, viola and piano; 3:00 Clearing of Path (Winter – Spring 2004) for guitar, drumset and recording; 8:00 Race of Man and Things (Summer – Fall 2004) for Electric Organ, 2 Marimbas, Glockenspiel, acoustic bass, bass clarinet, tenor sax and percussion View from the Woods (2003) for piano, celesta, marimba, acoustic bass, timpani,…