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  • A year's worth of recordings of electroacoustic music using sounds from everywhere. STRING 1 represents a full twelve months of creating electro/acoustic pieces and beds that I then layered and edited together into one single piece. My concern is making something that is continually interesting to the ear. I followed Luc Ferrari’s lead in building and moving, always toward new ideas. STRING tries mostly to manipulate timbre and space, creating the listened to sounds.

  • Study for Vox Inhumana (2000) is a brief exploration of the sound world that is to form the basis for a series of larger and varied works that combine vocal sounds (non-singing) with each other (tape compositions and works for vocal improvisation ensemble), with instruments, and with combinations of live vocal and instrumental sounds with both recorded and interactive computer elements. The human voice is the most varied instrument of all, and its rich soundfield has yet to be tapped fully – in fact it may never be. The sounds in this recording were produced and recorded by the composer, representing only one of thousands of vocal treasuries. The piece uses Csound and sound editing software to combine collage techniques with grooves and other devices. The structure is at times controlled and at times rhapsodic, reflecting the moods and bends of the creative (snapped) mind of its composer.

  • Incidental music; a score for a play produced in Hopkins Center directed by Rod Alexander. (soundtrack, 6 separate pieces).

  • Incidental music; a score for a play produced in Hopkins Center directed by Rod Alexander (soundtrack, 6 separate pieces).

  • Incidental music; a score for a play produced in Hopkins Center directed by Rod Alexander. (soundtrack, 6 separate pieces).

  • Incidental music; a score for a play produced in Hopkins Center directed by Rod Alexander. (soundtrack, 6 separate pieces).

  • Incidental music; a score for a play produced in Hopkins Center directed by Rod Alexander. (soundtrack, 6 separate pieces).

  • Incidental Music. A score for a play produced in Hopkins Center directed by Rod Alexander. (soundtrack, 6 separate pieces).

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    Published on two audio CDs:

    Insomnia, Kai Schumacher, piano. SWR Music/Hänssler Classic (093.334.000), June 2015.

    Here (and There), Jeri-Mae Astolfi, piano. Innova Records (Innova 846), January 2013.

  • A 19-minute work in three movements examining the impact of the National Security Agency's (NSA) massive surveillance programs on the condition of Americans' Fourth Amendment right to privacy.

    In early June 2013, security infrastructure analyst Edward Snowden leaked numerous classified documents detailing the comprehensive global surveillance programs and tactics carried out by the National Security Agency (NSA) in the U.S. and the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in the U.K.  This revelation prompted widespread and heated concern over U.S. and British governmental policies in the bulk collection of private communications and internet data of citizens and foreign nationals as a means to counteract terrorist activities at home and abroad.  Surveillance State for soprano, alto saxophone and live electronics, op. 10, takes as its subject the impact of massive government surveillance on the condition of American Idealism, specifically in matters of the individual’s right to personal freedom and privacy, in the years following the events of 9/11.

    Part 1: Snowden / Interlude: Sacrifice Liberty / Part 2: Scherzo – The Fourth Amendment / Epilogue: The Leviathan

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