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Papillon and the Dancing Cranes, for 3 Constructions Cranes and ensemble. Self-Portrait, for me Princess Nightmare Moon, for violin, clarinet, piccolo, piano, percussion, electronics 35 Degrees, for 2 assistants, electric guitar, keyboard, percussion, electronics, video Elpis, for 2 sopranos, 3 assistants, soprano saxophone, french horn, cello, percussion, keyboard, electronics, video Words to Sleep By, for voice, saxophone, basson, electronics The Portal, by and for On Structure Song for Matilda & Me, for clarinet and electronics Child of Chimera, for drumset, cello, piano, electronics An Economy of Means, for miniature drumset and electronics The Colors Don't Match, for voice, piccolo, clarinet, violin, percussion, electronics 2.5 Nightmares for Jessie, for cello and two assistants Wee Robot, for 4 disklaviers and electronics A Case for Dysfunctional Persistence, for piccolo, oboe, clarinet, 2 violins, 2 basses, trumpet, trombone, tuba, accordion, percussion, piano/sampler Second Nightmare, for KIKU, for violin and two assistants Vexed, for pic, Eb clar, vln, vcl, 2 perc, pno, harp, sampler, video Twistisch II, for two performers Nightmare for JACK (a ballet), for string quartet Panik(bread), for two percussionists and 2 pianists Twistisch, for two performers Bahnhof,
for voice and electronics On Silence, for two performers
Strange Attractors, for piccolo, percussion, and electronics Uncanny Valley, a monodrama Nystagmus, for two performers Symbiosis II,
for violin, cello, piano, and computer Symbiosis I,
for tape and performative lasers nonlinear interface, for flute, violin, cello, percussion, computer filament, for flute, violin, cello, percussion, sine waves ether
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Elpis for 2 sopranos, 3 assistants, soprano saxophone, french horn, cello, percussion, keyboard, electronics, video
Elpis is the personified spirit of ‘hope’ in Greek mythology— the last in Pandora’s jar. Total chaos was unleashed by the other (evil) spirits in the jar, and Elpis alone remained to fight them. The piece was written in a particularly chaotic period of my life. Constantly oversaturated by visuals, distracted by technology and images, our attention is split a thousand different ways. This manifests in the piece through the magazine cut-out collages of models, the gnome moving throughout the ensemble causing disruptions, and the chaotically layered music; and climaxes in a still musical moment as the sopranos yield hammers— a sort of anxiety-induced freezing of time, like the paralysis we’ve all experienced when there is just too much going on.
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