Composer of Electronic and Chamber Music

I just received word that my piece Waveformations will be on the headphone concert at the SEAMUS conference this year. I’m not sure, but according to the email I received, it looks like there will be two performances of the concert – one on Thursday, April 8th and one on Friday, April 9th, both at 10:00pm. I’m looking forward to the headphone concert idea, it’s not something I’ve been a part of before. If you’re planning to attend, the organizers ask that you bring your own headphones.

By the way, if you’re interested, you can check out the original album that Waveformations was released on. It’s from Wandering Ear, a netlabel releasing primarily field-recording and phonographic works. All of the tracks are reconstructions of an earlier Wandering Ear release, made of field recordings from Minnesota. My friend and collaborator David Collins also has a track there, which you should definitely check out.

The Electric Monster Laptop Ensemble, organized by Hsiao-Lan Wang, performed my piece “Solid State” on December 4th of 2009. I just got a recording of the performance, which you can check out here.

A screenshot of a piece I’m working on, entitled RadioGamelan. It’s for networked laptops, and involves sharing rhythms across a wireless network. Each performer chooses an independent tempo, and the multiple tempi can be combined to create varying polyrhythms. Pitch is controlled either using a step-sequencer or the graphical piano keyboard.

Two new papers (an analysis of Florian Hecker’s new Acid in the Style of David Tudor, and a history of David Tudor and John Cage’s collaboration and mutual influence) posted on the Research page.

Also posted the score .pdf for my new piece Pattern Recognition.

I made a page for my newest piece Pattern Recognition, commissioned for the C-Squared duo of Lisa Cella, Flute and Franklin Cox, ‘Cello.

The piece will be premiered in April, 2010. Score soon to come.

Pattern Recognition juxtaposes instrumental phrases and materials, which are repeated and varied in performance according to choices made by the performers. It was my goal to make music which had considerable freedom in performance while retaining a unique and identifiable character.