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RECENT EVENTS (2009):
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February 18, 2008: It took me a while to get the recording of this, and then I was lazy about putting it
up, but here is a LIVE performance of
Out Of,
for piano and electronics, performed by Marilyn Nonken,
for whom the piece was written. (Electronics are in a Just Intonation scale, piano is regular 12-tet).
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Saturday, March 28: A lovely
Untwelve
concert in March at the home of
Aaron K Johnson
featured my
Meditation 4
for piano, this one in a
Just Intonation tuning (Centaur).
Mr Johnson performed.
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The Stuffed Ones: 4 video pieces, on YouTube.
Goopy,
Ziggy,
Ellie,
Towelbear
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Saturday, February 7:
JUMP Concert #2: featured
Abstraction 4
for piano,
Saturday, February 7 @ 8PM, Fenway Center at Northeastern University,
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Friday, January 23: Piano Madness! Jacob Rhodebeck and
Shiau-Uen Ding
performed
Sonata
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
and
Balladei. Friday, January 23 @ 8PM,
Olin Arts Center,
Bates College, Lewiston ME.
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The ambient application-work
Thanksgiving. (Created at I-Park summer 2008.)
A dark, haunting piece with texts by Chicago-based writer
Molly Thorsen Connolly. (Written for
a concert of Untwelve.) If you
are a Macintosh user, you can download the ambient
app
directly, and run it to your heart's content. (It should now work for both PPC and Intel).
If you aren't a mac user, you can hear some audio
here. The voices in the piece are of
Adrienne
Hecker
and
Loren Schwerd.
I try to mostly write pieces for specific performers who will play them. But occasionally I stray
from the practical into a land of visionary possibility, and write things without
knowing who will play them. Here are some recent pieces that I'm looking for
performers for:
- Dream Mornings.
This
is a
vibrant orchestra piece, not too hard, though for a
big ensemble (I think it's arrangeable for a smaller
one if that would interest you).
- Mask of Mandragora for 3 percussion.
Lots o' textures and colors.
Setup and
score.
- Trio (Intro,
Part I, and
Part II), for clarinet, cello,
and piano. A big (40') luminous work, a partner work of
Ooogaaah, Dungeony Specimen Spaceship
and
Conceptual Study,
which can be found complete (those were excerpts) on the
EMC album
Defiant.
- Castrovalva
(notes and
score) for string orchestra.
And, although it's crappy as would be expected, even the
MIDI demo
sounds pretty awesome. Imagine it with real instruments!
- Movement for string orchestra.
(score and
MIDI demo).
(this MIDI demo is slightly better than Castrovalva, but oh, how one
longs for the real thing.)
This is kind of an homage
to the high chromatic tonality of late Mahler,
early Schoenberg, Webern, Berg.
- Leo's Music for toy piano. It's cute, short and sweet.
In 2007, I released an album of piano music, featuring my works
Balladei and Sonata,
fantastically performed by
Shiau-Uen Ding,
and Jacob Rhodebeck.
You can purchase it
here.
The interface to
Sand, should be working.
Try it out.
The old .mp3s and essay writings are all still there.
I was part of a
competition in
Korea,
and was asked to talk about my
work
Timelash, (an old recording--the piece has been revised since);
that talk is now
online.
The Electric Music
Collective released two albums,
Incandescence, which features my works Ow, My Head and Duude,
(purchase
it here), and
Defiant, which features my works Ooogaah: Dungeony Specimen Spaceship, and
Conceptual Study, and is also available for
purchase from Amazon.com.
Try my web-based app with which one may write a score
in any tuning system, and the app will spit out a Standard MIDI File.
Check it out here.
If you'd like to chat, drop an e-mail to chris @@a@t@ music.columbia_ddott_edu.
(Ye who are not spam-bots, translate that appropriately. . .)
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