Construction 0 (2018)
For fixed media [6:03]. Structure = {house, techno, trance}.inform; Production methods = {house, techno, trance}.inform; Concept = }{
Outsides (2018)
For pianist, four method actors/actresses, and electronics. Composed for Joseph Hart. Outsides explores performance anxiety, the relationship between life and art, being inside a cage, and different possible relationships between…
Network (2018)
For audience with smartphones and/or computers [4:00]. In Network, the audience scrolls through and stylistically reads words from a YouTube track in which the temporal dimension of the form is…
Invincible (2018)
For vocalizing alto saxophonist and 24-channel sound system [30:00 - 39:00]. Composed for Kyle Hutchins. Invincible uses the Weighted Pitch Network/Harmony-Building Method (described above) to create ambiguous, undefinable harmonies in…
Sky in Lighthouse (2018)
For horn in F and piano [12:00 - 13:15]. Composed for Wallace Easter. Sky in Lighthouse is a collage of several blocks of music, each of which was made by…
Thousand (2018)
For fixed media [1:44]. Over a backdrop of continual spatial transfusion of clean digital energy, a grungy saw threatens. Performances Apr 20, 2018. Pritchard Hall, Blacksburg, VA. Presented on loop…
GroupThink (2018)
For 10 or more performers, composed by DJ Malinowski and Daniel Ezra Clark [~5:00]. Words from the supreme composers: the traditionalists are superior to the anarchists. ? Performances Apr 15,…
Breathe (2018)
For pianist. Breathe uses a simple psychological phenomenon (namely, the fight-or-flight response to holding one’s breath for a long time) as a subconscious guideline for improvisation. Specifically, this phenomenon creates…
Art Is Short, Dude (2018)
Art is useless in the face of death. Nothing can save you; shut up and get out of this unemotional, unfeeling world. And for the love of God, keep…
Charred (2017)
For fixed media [3:52]. Charred plays with the tension between a sound source's usual peacefulness and its unusual spatialization. Performances Apr 27, 2018. Perform Studio, Moss Arts Center. Blacksburg, VA.…