Works

Dear patient performers: I am gradually moving my catalog into a flexible and searchable database so you can easily find what you are looking for. Currently you can search through more than a hundred pieces by various different criteria, including size of ensemble, instrumentation, length, and so on. In addition, you are welcome to browse the list of works for pieces that aren’t yet published. Please get in touch if you’d like help finding something specific. And when you perform any of these pieces, please let me know.

Please note: the fulfillment system is completely electronic (pdfs and soundfiles), but it is handled manually at the moment, so sometimes it takes a day or two before you receive the materials. Thanks for your understanding!

• Instrumentation

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  • percussion (pitched)(21)
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  • piano(52)
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  • synthesizer(16)
  • guitar(23)
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  • voice (singer)(39)
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  • choir(11)
  • violin(34)
  • viola(18)
  • cello(24)
  • bass(20)
  • orchestra(5)
  • open instrumentation(25)

• Ensemble Size

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  • 2-6(73)
  • 7-12(13)
  • large ensemble(16)

• Duration

  • <5 minutes(61)
  • 25-40 minutes(1)
  • 5-12 minutes(51)
  • 13-25 minutes(10)

• Electronics

  • No Electronics(65)
  • Fixed Audio(62)
  • Live Processing(23)

• Video

  • No(95)
  • Yes(26)

• Project

  • A Book of Days(114)
  • Archives of Exile(2)
  • BRIM: The River Project(23)
  • Descent(2)
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  • Machaut in the Machine Age(9)
  • Open Secrets(1)
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  • The Art of Memory(1)
  • Where Your Treasure Is(2)
  • The Vicksburg Project(4)
  • Emily D(6)
  • finish what I haven't started(5)
  • What are the Chances?(1)
  • Wait Till Tonight(5)
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Picnic

a song setting a 1963 poem by Adrienne Rich

• Duration: <5 minutes
• Electronics: No Electronics
• Video: No

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The Light is Always Changing

a chamber piece inspired by James Baldwin and by clouds against the mountains in Alaska…

• Duration: 5-12 minutes
• Electronics: No Electronics
• Video: No

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aRound advent

a piece for open instrumentation, originally made for students at NEC Prep

• Duration: <5 minutes
• Electronics: No Electronics
• Video: No

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Inundated By Night

a piece for string quartet, bass, percussion, and pre-recorded sound — written in memory of Robert Black

• Duration: 5-12 minutes
• Electronics: Fixed Audio
• Video: No

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As Syllable from Sound

a solo piano piece inspired by Emily Dickinson and Charles Ives’ Concord Sonata

• Duration: 5-12 minutes
• Electronics: No Electronics
• Video: No

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Circumference

a small but tricky piano etude

• Duration: <5 minutes
• Electronics: No Electronics
• Video: No

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Dream Amid Bed-woods

a voice and piano setting of a Bill Knott poem

• Duration: <5 minutes
• Electronics: No Electronics
• Video: No

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First Sight

summer is entered through screendoors…

• Duration: <5 minutes
• Electronics: No Electronics
• Video: No

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Unearthly Booty

ghost pipes, Emily Dickinson, and Milton Babbitt…

• Duration: 5-12 minutes
• Electronics: No Electronics
• Video: No

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wait till tonight

the arms of care

• Duration: <5 minutes
• Electronics: No Electronics
• Video: No

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CALLING ON ALL SILENT MINORITIES

a song with text by June Jordan

• Duration: <5 minutes
• Electronics: No Electronics
• Video: No

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Forest of Wires

a song for voice and two pianos in clashing temperaments

• Duration: <5 minutes
• Electronics: Fixed Audio
• Video: No

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my dream about time

a song for voice and piano setting a poem by Lucille Clifton

• Duration: <5 minutes
• Electronics: No Electronics
• Video: No

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only your dolls

a setting of Anne Sexton for voice and piano

• Duration: 5-12 minutes
• Electronics: No Electronics
• Video: No

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Peace (Pascal)

one of a series of settings of the poetry of Bill Knott

• Duration: <5 minutes
• Electronics: No Electronics
• Video: No

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Plunge

a song with text by Bill Knott

• Duration: <5 minutes
• Electronics: No Electronics
• Video: No

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a murmur in the trees

a thirty-minute piece for 24 basses in a grove of trees

• Duration: 25-40 minutes
• Electronics: No Electronics
• Video: No

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a solemn shyness

a solo piano piece inspired by a fragment of Emily Dickinson

• Duration: 5-12 minutes
• Electronics: Live Processing
• Video: Yes

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Not My Home

a piece inspired by Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky

• Duration: 5-12 minutes
• Electronics: Fixed Audio
• Video: Yes

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Peggy in the Twilight

a setting of James Tate for speaking violinist and guitar

• Duration: <5 minutes
• Electronics: No Electronics
• Video: No

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What would the Either be?

a piece for live violin, electronically transformed violin sounds, and optional video

• Duration: 5-12 minutes
• Electronics: Fixed Audio
• Video: Yes

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Be Like Water

for viola, percussion, and track

• Duration: <5 minutes
• Electronics: Fixed Audio Live Processing
• Video: No

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Hard4the$

a piece for solo flute and pre-recorded track that explores the current gender and racial pay gap in the United States

• Duration: <5 minutes
• Electronics: Fixed Audio
• Video: No

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I Have to See You

an intense vocal duet based on Machaut’s Ballade #33

• Duration: 5-12 minutes
• Electronics: Fixed Audio
• Video: Yes

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We will sing one song

a piece about home for duduk, string quartet, and percussion

• Duration: 13-25 minutes
• Electronics: Fixed Audio
• Video: No

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