Sound and Music Compositions

Glacial

2019-2022

For 11 channel audio, 4 studio monitors, 1 sub, 6 speaker drivers mounted to the following instruments: violin, viola, cello, double bass, timpani, and light ride cymbal.

Duration: 4:55:00

Includes optional video projection for concert setting.

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Water Music

2022-2023

A combination of graphic elements on a standard staff – for three instruments or voices.

Duration: 30:00

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Of Weather

2019-2023

A combination of graphic elements and standard notation- for violin, viola, cello and double bass.

Duration: 35:30

Includes optional video projection for concert setting.

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Weeks Feel Like Days Months Feel Like Years

2020

5 text scores for individuals in private of in groups with live electronics, adaptable to live performance by professionals or audience members.

Duration: indeterminate

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Tom Thomson Centennial Swim – Passing Through Water

2016-2017

2 movements: exists as condensed score of repeated cells and as expanded score- for 2 trombones or other tenor brass, and 2 trumpets or other alto brass, mandolin, and piano or solo piano, or piano and mandolin, or just brass ensemble.

Includes optional video projections for concert setting.

Two movements:
Passing Through Water I, duration: approx. 19:00
Passing Through Water II, duration 20:00

Additional:
Descending to the Bottom of the Lake, stereo audio recording, duration, 5:34  Recommended to be played between movements in concert setting
Swimming Through Time, binaural underwater recording, duration, 1:10

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Alaska Variations

2015-2016, 2023

Ice Record, 2015, text score, for ski pole or other sharpened metal rod, outdoors in winter on ice, duration: variable

Ice Groove, 2016, text score, for ski pole or other sharpened metal rod, outdoors in winter on ice, duration: variable

Glen Alps Variations, 2016, 4 variations on the score Glen Alps:
Glen Alps 1– for violin, viola, cello, bass, soprano, counter tenor, cymbal, timpani, and vibraphone, duration: 5:20
Glen Alps 2– violin, viola, cello, bass, soprano, counter tenor, cymbal, timpani, and vibraphone with signal processing, duration: 5:20
Glen Alps 3– violin, viola, cello, bass, soprano, counter tenor, cymbal, timpani, and vibraphone with signal processing, duration: 5:20
Glen Alps 4– violin, viola, cello, bass, soprano, counter tenor, cymbal, timpani, vibraphone, and live mix of audio recordings, duration: 7:10
Glen Alps percussion scores- graphic notation for above variations.

Dance 1, 2016, text score, for small dance ensemble outdoors in winter on ice, duration: variable

Gnaw XI, video score with text instructions, for solo cello with or without signal processing, duration: 6:50

Experimental Climate Change Research: Boiling Point No.1, 2015, text score, for whistling kettles, water, glass beakers, salt, portable stoves, indoor or outdoor, duration: variable

All Terrain, 2016, Text Score for drums and moving vehicle, duration variable, outdoor

All Terrain: A Transcription of a Realization, 2023, for snare drum, tom, bass drum, cymbal and high hat, duration: 7:30

Includes video projections for concert setting.

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Requiem for a Glacier

2012- 2013

Oratorio for orchestra and choir with soprano soloist, standard notation with instructional elements.

Four Movements:

I Introit, duration: 4:40
II Gradual, duration: 14:00
III Sequence, duration: 10:30
IV Tract, duration: 7:10

Additional:
V   In Paradisum, 2013, for electronics: transducers and contact microphones on grand piano, duration: 6:37

Includes video projections for concert setting.

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Composition for Solo Piano No.2

Text score, for piano and coniferous tree, duration variable

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Composition for Solo Piano No.1

Text score, for piano and wood boring insects, duration indeterminate

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Epigenetic Switches

2009

Standard notation, 4 movements, for bassoon, cello, and marimba

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Interdeterminacy

2010

Graphic notation, for groups of two types of instruments or single polyphonic instrument.

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Composition for Light Percussion and Ultrasound

2010

Instructional chart, for 7 floor toms,  non-LED lights, lighting controller, sound system, field recordings of bats, incidental insects.

Duration, approximately 49:00, outdoor

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Northern Symphony

2001

Standard notation, 5 movements for violin, viola, cello and double bass.

1st  Movement, duration: 3:50
2nd Movement, duration: 2:10
3rd Movement, duration: 5:10
4th Movement, duration: 1:30
5th Movement, duration: 4:30

Total duration: approximately 18:00

Score details here