My Compositions

   Metamorphosis
Pure Csound, with the Blue interface. The words are text from Kafka's Metamorphosis. Most of the sounds are made from the same soundfiles as the voices.
"Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheuren Ungeziefer verwandelt."
"Ich bin in der Klemme, ich werde mich aber auch wieder herausarbeiten!"
"Wir müssen es loszuwerden suchen!"
"Als Gregor Samsa..."

-Franz Kafka


   Orange
Created with my Pure Data JI Sequencer, using MIDI output. Written for the InterArts dance/music/multimedia/etc. ensemble at University of the Arts, Spring 2006. The tunings in this and the next piece are based on the natural properties of sound, but extended and changing rapidly. None of this can be described in "traditional Western music theory."


   The In-Tune Sonata
      I. Sonata
      II. Theme & Variations
      III. Minuet
      IV. Rondo
Computer synthesis, created entirely with my Pure Data JI Sequencer. I will revise the sounds with Csound for my senior recital; I was more concerned with the tuning when I wrote it, but it would be unimaginable not to give it better sounds.


   2001 Scene with my score
An assignment for MIDI class, to record a score for a 2:30 clip from the film 2001. I designed 4 synthesizer patches for this. I composed, programmed, and produced all of it. Yamaha DX7, Korg MS-2000, and Kurzweil K2000R are all used. The static is on purpose.


   Haberdashery, with Lish Lindsey on flute, Todd Groves on Clarinet, and Judi Glover on piano.
The first composition of my Freshman year at The University of the Arts. It remains my most accomplished piece.


   Far Away -the UArts Chamber Singers, led by Brian Kain.
Inspired by frustration and the feeling that my school was not very academic, and especially by being surrounded by nothing but jazz. Jazz is wonderful, brilliant music, but it can also be the cause of blindness.
  Lyrics to Far Away
  Soprano:
    Amy Cutter
    Samantha D'Arienzo
    Jaime Korkos
    Amber Lashway
  Alto:
    Gina Polite
    Liz Ross
    Brielle Thompson
    Nicole Tranquillo
  Baritone:
    Chuckk Hubbard
    Andre Webb
  Piano:
    Brian Kain


   When the Bombs Wear Off, one of my audition pieces for University of the Arts. This is still only a MIDI realization, as UArts does not have an orchestra. They loved it, though, and it got me in and got me funded. In my mind, it represents a town after a war, fluctuating between celebrating, mourning, and paying tribute.


   Sonatina in Three Movements
I. The Untoward Stoolie
II. Let's Just Pretend
III. Cobb Salad
  For Freshman Composition class. Sonata, passacaglia, and rondo movements.


   Waking in the Night, with Colleen McMillian on Colleen McMillian, and Emily Newell on piano.
Based on a sonnet I wrote in 1998 at Denny's, comparing a child's sleeplessness with man's search for meaning. Written without the use of octaves; the scale repeats at the perfect fifth, an idea borrowed from Georgian folk singing.





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