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• Name Droppings

  2-, 4-, & 8-channel mixes available

  Published on audio CD: In Celebration of the 50^th Anniversary of the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios (1958-2008), 2008.

• System of Shadows

  2-, 4-, & 8-channel TimeLines available

• Lyra

  2-, 4-, & 8-channel TimeLines available

  Published on audio CD: Ghost Strings, Patricia Strange , violin. IMG Media, CD-02-01, 2006.s

• Still Harmless [BASS]ically

• Lobby Reforms

  Kyma processing of human voices and lobby sounds
  
  Lobby Reforms is a live computer processing audio environment that brings the pre-concert sounds of people passing through the lobby into the concert hall (as well as back into the lobby) in an informal collage of social activity. Microphones are placed at key locations in the lobby to gather the sounds of people arriving for this concert, buying tickets, discussing the printed concert program, chatting about the day, and just milling about before the concert itself begins. The audio sources are processed in real-time and then directed back through the sound system to create a sonic environment that leads organically into the concert itself as the lobby sounds eventually diminish as a result of the audience leaving that space for the concert hall.

• Axis Mundi - 34.2320° N, 82.8945° W

• A BLADE WITHIN

  I find myself sometimes lost and unsure within the compositional process. Whether the work is an acoustic, electronic, or a combination of both, I often find the struggle is the same. A Blade Within is a fix media 2 channel stereo work that found it's conception within the struggle of the composer's processes. I try to express these subjective operandi by means of raw, as well as manipulated sound sources. The final gesture of the work accentuates the nucleus of the main idea.

• The Bringer of Life

  Performance Notes: The Bringer of Life is a programmatic composition representing the Panspermia Theory with musical elements. The sharp rhythms, dense textures, and freely chromatic harmonies are orchestrated in a manner that, in my mind, programmatically represents celestial bodies impacting our planet in it’s beginning stages billions of years past. This work should be performed aggressively, in strict time (no rubato), and with no breaks (rit) in between ‘sections.’ It might be helpful to imagine comets striking our planet’s surface when internalizing The Bringer of Life.

• Foreign Masonry

  The narrator in Jorge Luis Borges’ 1945 story “The Aleph” describes a remarkable singularity under an acquaintance’s cellar stairs: a point where the universe in its entirety can be experienced at once. At the end of the story, he describes other Alephs that might exist in the world:

  “The Faithful who gather at the mosque of Amr, in Cairo, are acquainted with the fact that the entire universe lies inside one of the stone pillars that ring its central court…No one, of course, can actually see it, but those who lay an ear against the surface tell that after some short while they perceive its busy hum…The mosque dates from the seventh century; the pillars come from other temples of pre-Islamic religions, since, as ibn-Khaldun has written: ‘In nations founded by nomads, the aid of foreigners is essential in all concerning masonry.’”

  “Foreign Masonry” uses a single multiphonic built from the baritone saxophone’s lowest note as the mysterious column, its multitudinous harmonic series representative of the entire universe.

• Vorticose

  Vorticose was performed at the Sound Horizons music festival in Boston, in a live-control sound diffusion setting using Harvard University’s 40-speaker “Hydra” sound system. -May 2015
  
  A quadraphonic (4-channel) version of Vorticose was featured at the New Ideas in Music and Sound concert series in Boston. -October 2015