A humble performance request: Please get in touch with me if you are interested in playing any of the scores available below! I’d like to know who you are.
Close readers will notice discrepancies between scores and their recordings. I’m not sheepish about these differences—in fact, I celebrate them! In my musical practice, I want the score to be a springboard to experimentation and exploration rather than a rigid sonic blueprint. In rehearsals and performances, the performer may decide to do something different from what’s written, or I may request a change that doesn’t make its way back to the score. I’m more interested in flexible musical thought than in submission to the written document.
This piece started as a graphic score, but after a couple difficult rehearsals, I turned the score into a video for the musicians and audience to watch:
A composition for synthesized video and audio.
A recording of their outstanding performance at Roulette (April 2009):
The first page is the composition in its most general form, and the following pages are a realization of this form for flute, violin, and geometric animation. Each note color corresponds to a playing technique:
This score correlates the string-tablature and flute-fingering diagrams of the graphic score to more conventional staff notation.
as played by Amy Cimini, on the language of... CD (released by quietdesign records):
as played by Due East [to come]
The Zakir Hussain recording that inspired the piece
Audio excerpt
Transcription of part of the above excerpt. The lines above the bols indicate synocopated word groupings. The asterisks mark four-word groups; to my ears, these groups anchor the passage.
as played by Hayang Kim [to come]
Drone Level Orange, a CD by my band, Glissando Bin Laden (released by Carrier Records)
This is me singing on the first track, “Rumble 7”:
Posters: I make posters with Processing and, more recently, Python (using the ReportLab PDF tools). (Note: the links to source code aren’t working yet; contact me and I’ll send you whatever interests you.)
Drone Level Orange album art (June 2009)
Poster for Monkeytown show (June 2009)
Posters for Due East and ICE concerts
(April 2008)
Poster for Kammerensemble Neue Musik concert
(November 2007)
| The Fancy | Starring | Architeuthis Walks on Land | |
| Amy Cimini | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mike Gallope | ✓ | ||
| Clara Latham | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Yoni Niv |

