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.
Project details here
Water Music
2022-2023
A combination of graphic elements on a standard staff – for three instruments or voices.
Duration: 30:00
Score details here
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.
Score details here
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
Score details here
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
Score details here
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.
Score details here
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.
Score details here
Composition for Solo Piano No.2
Text score, for piano and coniferous tree, duration variable
Score details here
Composition for Solo Piano No.1
Text score, for piano and wood boring insects, duration indeterminate
Score details here
Epigenetic Switches
2009
Standard notation, 4 movements, for bassoon, cello, and marimba
Score details here
Interdeterminacy
2010
Graphic notation, for groups of two types of instruments or single polyphonic instrument.
Score details here
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
Score details here
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