COMPOSITIONS

Upcoming pieces:

Cello concerto for Felix Fan
and the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Kent Nagano, to be premiered in Berkeley, California

Floating Messages and Fading Frequencies
A concert-lenght work inspired by the radio transmissions of the Danish Resistance in World War II, in collaboration with the Esbjerg Ensemble (Denmark) and the Annie Gosfield Ensemble (Annie Gosfield, Roger Kleier, Chris Cutler) in Denmark, 2009

Selected Works List:

Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers
(2008, 21 minutes, for piano and sampler)
Premiere by Lisa Moore in Canberra, Australia, May 8, 2008
US premiere at the Bang on a Can Marathon, New York, May 31, 2008
Score available for sale wth samples for the application "Kontakt3"
Commissioned by the Meet the Composer's Commissioning USA
and The Argosy Fund for New Music
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Almost Truths and Open Deceptions
(2007, 21 minutes, cello chamber concerto for cello, percussion, piano, 2 violins, viola, and contrabass)
Premiere by Felix Fan, with David Cossin, Blair McMillen, Nurit Pacht, Jennifer Choi, Max Mandel, and Robert Black, at Merkin Concert Hall, New York, May 3, 2007
Score and parts available for sale
Commissioned by the Kaufmann Center, with funds provided by the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust
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The Wanton Brutality of a Tender Touch
(2006, 12 minutes, for piano)
Premiere by Blair McMillen at the Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, Sept. 8, 2006
Score available for sale
Commissioned by Blair Mcmillen
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Overvoltage Rumble
(2006, 13 minutes, for bass clarinet, percussion, sampler, guitar, cello, and contrabass)
Premiere by The Bang on a Can All-Stars at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City,
February 22, 2006
Score and parts available for sale
Commissioned by the People's Commissioning Fund
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A Sideways Glance from an Electric Eye
(2006, 8 minutes, for a virtual version of Henry Cowell's Rhythmicon)
Released on "The Art of the Virtual Rhythmicon" Innova, 2006
Commissioned by Sonic Circuits
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In This Dream that Dogs Me
Live music for choreographer Karole Armitage
(2005, 55 minutes, for percussion, sampler, guitar, and cello)
Premiere by Danny Tunick, Annie Gosfield, Roger Kleier, and Felix Fan
at the Duke Theater on 42nd Street, New York, November 30, 2005
Commissioned by the American Music Center's Live Music for Dance program
and the Rockefeller Foundation's MAP Fund
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Uphill Slides and Knockdown Dives
(2005, 12 minutes, for percussion and cello)
Premiere by Felix Fan and David Cossin
at the Muzik3 festival in San Diego, California, April 13, 2005
Score and parts available for sale
Commissioned by the Muzik3 Festival
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Wild Pitch (2004, 13 min, for cello, percussion, and piano)
Premiere by Felix Fan, David Cossin, & Andy Russo,
Merkin Concert Hall, New York, December, 2004
Score and parts available for sale
Commissioned by the Muzik3 Festival, San Diego
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Echoes of the Copper Octopus
(Reflective, Malleable, and Very Tenacious)
(2004, 13 min, percussion quartet)
Premiere by SO Percussion, Merkin Concert Hall, New York, December, 2004
Score and parts available for sale
Commissioned by the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust for Performance at Merkin Hall
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Knuckleball (2004, 1 minute, for solo piano)
Commissioned by the "Piano Project" which has commissioned composers to write short piano pieces for children in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Kaufman Center

The Harmony of the Body–Machine
(2003, 13 min, for cello and electronics)
Premiere by Joan Jeanrenaud, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
San Francisco, October, 2003
Commissioned by the American Composers Forum and the Jerome Foundation
Score and CD of accompanying electronics available for sale
NOTES
Recorded by Joan Jeanrenaud on Gosfield's
"LOST SIGNALS AND DRIFTING SATELLITES" CLICK TO LISTEN Tzadik, 2004

Marked by a Hat (2003, 8 minutes, for 8 microtonally tuned
sympathetic strings on the "extreme guitar")
Premiere by Marco Cappelli, Associazione Alessandro Scarlatti, Naples, Italy,
November, 2003
Commissioned by Marco Cappelli
Recorded by Marco Cappelli on "The Extreme Guitar", Mode, 2006
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Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites
(2003, 8 minutes, for violin and electronics)
Premiere by George Kentros, Stockholm, May 2003
Score and CD of accompanying electronics available for sale
Commissioned by George Kentros
NOTES
Recorded by George Kentros on Gosfield's
"LOST SIGNALS AND DRIFTING SATELLITES" CLICK TO LISTEN Tzadik, 2004

Lightheaded and Heavyhearted (2002, 18 minutes, for string quartet)
Premiere by the Miami String Quartet at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, July 2002
Commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Score and parts available for sale
NOTES
Recorded by the Flux Quartet on Gosfield's
"LOST SIGNALS AND DRIFTING SATELLITES" CLICK TO LISTEN Tzadik, 2004

Smoking and Drifting (2001, 14 minutes, for bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, percussion, piano, two violins, viola, cello, and contrabass)
Premiere by Present Music at the Milwaukee Art Museum, January 2002
Commissioned by Present Music and the Jacquart Family
Score and parts available for sale or rental
NOTES

Five Will Get You Seven (2001, 15 minutes, for bass clarinet and 2 percussion)
Premiere by Zeitgeist at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, September 2001
Commissioned by Headwaters for Festival Dancing in Your Head
Score and parts available for sale
Recorded by Zeitgeist on "If Tigers Were Clouds", Innova, 2003
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Cranks and Cactus Needles
(2000, 6 minutes, for flute, piano, violin, and cello)
Premiere by The Pearls Before Swine Experience at ISCM World Music Days,
Luxembourg, September 2000
Score and parts available for sale
Recorded by The Pearls Before Swine Experience, on "Swine Live!", Caprice (Sweden), 2003
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Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery
(2000, 15 minutes, for string quartet and percussion quartet)
Premiere by the Onyx String Quartet and RedDrum Percussion Group at the Other Minds Festival, San Francisco, March 2000
Commissioned by Other Minds and the American Composers Forum
Score and parts available for sale or rental
NOTES
Recorded by FLUX Quartet and Talujon Percussion on Annie Gosfield's
"FLYING SPARKS AND HEAVY MACHINERY" CLICK TO LISTEN Tzadik, 2001

It Almost Passed in a Dream (1999, 8 minutes, for flute, bass marimba, harmonic canon, adapted guitar, bloboy, and cello)
Premiere by Newband (on the Harry Partch Instruments) at Music at the Anthology,
New York, February 2000
Commissioned by MATA and the Greenwall Foundation
NOTES

Shoot the Player Piano (1999, 6 minutes, recorded work for video and music)
Premiere at Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, November 1999
Commissioned by the American Composers Forum for the Sonic Circuits Festival
Video available for sale
NOTES
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO

EWA7 (1999, 42 minutes, a site-specific factory-inspired work for keyboards, electric guitar, and two percussion)
Premiere by The Annie Gosfield Ensemble at the EWA7 Factory, Nuremberg, Germany,
July 1999
Commissioned by the Siemens Corporation
NOTES
Recorded by The Annie Gosfield Ensemble on
"FLYING SPARKS AND HEAVY MACHINERY" CLICK TO LISTEN Tzadik, 2001

Mentryville (1999, 4 minutes, for prepared piano)
Premiere by Annie Gosfield at California Institute of the Arts,
Valencia, California, March 1999
NOTES
Recorded by Annie Gosfield on
"LOST SIGNALS AND DRIFTING SATELLITES" CLICK TO LISTEN Tzadik, 2004

Brawl (1998, 10 minutes, for saxophone quartet)
Premiere by Rova Saxophone Quartet, San Francisco, June 1998
Score and parts available for sale
NOTES
Recorded by ROVA Sax Quartet, on Annie Gosfield's
"BURNT IVORY AND LOOSE WIRES" CLICK TO LISTEN Tzadik, 1998

Brooklyn, October 5, 1941
(1997, 4 minutes, for piano, baseballs, and baseball mitt)
Premiere by Guy Livingston, at Bruno Walter Auditorium, Lincoln Center, New York, December 1997
Score available for sale
Recorded by Guy Livingston (one minute version) on "Don't Panic: Sixty Seconds for Piano", Wergo (Germany) and Harmonia Mundi (USA) 2001
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Cram Jin Quotient (1997, 8 minutes, for keyboard sampler)
Premiere by Annie Gosfield at "The Alternative Schubertiade", American Opera Projects,
New York, September 1997
Recorded by Annie Gosfield on "An Alternative Schubertiade" CRI, 1999
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In Rides the Dust (1997 version, 11 minutes, for chamber orchestra)
Premiere by Bang on a Can's Spit Orchestra, conducted by Bradley Lubman, at the Kitchen, New York, May 1997
Score and parts available for sale or rental
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Four Roses (1997, 6 minutes, for cello and detuned piano)
Premiere by Ted Mook and Annie Gosfield, New York, March 1997
Score and parts available for sale (Ensoniq ASR-10 sampler necessary for performance)
NOTES
Recorded by Ted Mook and Annie Gosfield on
"BURNT IVORY AND LOOSE WIRES" CLICK TO LISTEN Tzadik, 1998

Freud (1996, 4 minutes, composed with Roger Kleier For sampler and electric guitar)
Premiere by Annie Gosfield and Roger Kleier at the Audio Art Festival, Goethe Institute, Cracow, Poland, November 1996
NOTES
Recorded by Annie Gosfield and Roger Kleier on
"BURNT IVORY AND LOOSE WIRES" Tzadik, 1998

In Rides the Dust (1996, 11 minutes, for flute, tenor sax, trumpet, trombone, percussion, piano, guitar, cello, and contrabass)
Premiere by Agon Orchestra, conducted by Petr Kofron, New Music Marathon, Prague, November 1996
Score and parts available for sale or rental
NOTES

Blue Serge (1996, 5 minutes, for sampling keyboard)
Premiere by Annie Gosfield at Festival Solo in Lucerne, Switzerland, May 1996
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Recorded by Annie Gosfield on "Bring Your Own Walkman" Staalplaat, 1997, and
"BURNT IVORY AND LOOSE WIRES" Tzadik, 1998

Lost Night (1995, 12 minutes, for chamber orchestra and sampler)
Premiere by the Crosstown Ensemble, conducted by Eric Grunin, New York, December 1995
Commissioned by the Minnesota Composers Forum and the Crosstown Ensemble
Score and parts available for sale or rental
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The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory
(1995, 11 minutes, for percussion, sampler, guitar, cello, contrabass)
Premiere by The Annie Gosfield Ensemble, Festival of Radical New Jewish Culture, New York, September 1994, revised version premiered by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, at Great Performers at Lincoln Center, New York, May 1995
Score and parts available for sale (Ensoniq ASR-10 sampler necessary for performance)
Recorded by the Bang on a Can Allstars on "Cheating, Lying Stealing" Sony Classical, 1996, and on "Bang on a Can Classic" Cantaloupe Records, 2002
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Recorded by The Annie Gosfield Ensemble Annie Gosfield's
"BURNT IVORY AND LOOSE WIRES" CLICK TO LISTEN Tzadik, 1998

Second Avenue Junkman (1993, 4 minutes, for piano, guitar, and percussion)
Premiere by The Annie Gosfield Ensemble, at the Festival of Radical New Jewish Culture, New York, September 1993
Recorded by Annie Gosfield, Roger Kleier, and Greg Cohen on "Irving Stone Memorial Concert", Tzadik, 2004
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Nickolaievski Soldat (1993, 7 minutes, for sampler, guitar, and percussion)
Premiere by The Annie Gosfield Ensemble, Festival of Radical New Jewish Culture, New York, September 1993
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Recorded by The Annie Gosfield ensemble on
"BURNT IVORY AND LOOSE WIRES" Tzadik, 1998