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Oracle Machines (2026)
large ensemble and electronics
Set the Sun (2025)
piano and electronics
Tectonics (2023)
ensemble and electronics
Seeker (2022)
orchestra and electronics
The Atens (2022)
reed quintet and electronics
Star Taker (2019)
saxophone, violin, cello, piano, percussion, and quadraphonic playback
Actuate/Resonate (2018)
large ensemble with electronics
Lines on Black (2018)
for voice, flute, violin, saxophone, piano, percussion, and electronics
binary/momentary iii (2018)
cello and electronics
for Delia Derbyshire (2018)
bass, guitar, and electronics
Matrix for George Lewis (2017)
2 electronic silent brass trombones
binary/momentary ii: flow state/joy state (2017)
Trumpet, 2 trombones, piano, and percussion
binary/momentary logics: flow state/joy state (2016)
String quartet
delay/line (2016)
Flute and delay line
Seven Systems (2015)
2 piano, 2 percussion quartet with electronic playback and actuated snares
Points Against Fields (2015)
Bassoon and playback
hydra (2015)
Violin, piano, fixed media, and live electronics
MODULES (2014)
Brass quartet, percussion, analog synthesizer, and live electronics
Four Sixes (2014)
Percussion Sextet
Chain Reactions/Five Events (2013)
String quartet and live electronics
Sixty Cycles (2013)
Sopranino saxophone soloist, feedback televisions, violin, and cello
Broken Symmetries (2012)
Violin soloist, feedback electronics, flute, tenor saxophone, piano, and percussion
Machine Language (2012)
Percussion soloist, 2 percussion, 2 violins, 2 bass clarinets, accordion, and fixed sine tones
Portraits/Self Portraits (2011)
Violin soloist with large ensemble
ATD V (2010)
Saxophone and electronics soloists with small ensemble
Tile Mosaic (after Chagall) (2010)
Two pianos, two percussion, and resonant pails
Standing Waves (2009)
Medium sized ensemble and electronics
Matrices (2009)
Percussion trio and electronics
Signal Flow (2009)
Percussion quartet and electronics
Lyra (2007 rev. 2010)
Amplified string quartet
SWITCHES (2007)
Distorted, amplified cello and drumset
American Tokyo Daydream IV (data structures/monoliths) (2007)
Saxophones, electric guitar, and accordion
A Circle of 8 in a Prime of Primes for Sara (31), by Sam (29)
Sheng, pipa, suona, handbell choir, and live electronics
7:6 (2006, rev. 2010)
Distorted, amplified cello
American Tokyo Daydream III (The Surprise) (2006)
Piano, string quaret, and live electronics
noise + mobile (2005)
Piano and electronic playback
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I am a huge fan of the music of the Ars Subtilior period. This music has a series of qualities that distinguish it from that written after 1500. It has an intense
focus on counterpoint, with many layers of music all moving at different speeds. Each performer, acting more as an
individual in the musical landscape rather than in concert, weaves ornate soloistic lines, notated in an attempt to capture
the intricacies of the improvised performance practice of the time. Alternate tunings add myriad colors to the somewhat
static harmonic topography. Finally, the music has a kind of floating quality, largely due to it having been written as a set of
simultaneous parts, rather than as a score.
Star Taker, while in no way sounding like a work from the Ars Subtilior, is influenced by this period’s ethos. It is named
after the astrolabe, also known as the Star Taker, the ancient navigational device used, until the invention of the sextant in
the 18th century, by mariners and astronomers, to plot the heavens and explore the ever expanding known world. This
composition is meant to be an exploration of the mind, a brief glimpse into a heightened state of focus and awareness.
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