Selected Recordings
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PLACE for chamber string orchestra (2016)
Alexander Tom, conductor Clarice Collins | violin I Felix Herbst | violin I Jingting Liu | violin II Natalie Rose | violin II Sarah Evins | viola I Daniel Lorenzo | viola II Alex Duke | cello Elizabeth Weser | cello Kelsey Mines | bass (2016, Tempe, AZ) This piece utilizes Grisey's Partiels as a model for orchestral synthesis, formal structure, and timbre/tone-color as well as aleatoric elements. The pitch material is derived from field recordings as interpreted through a sonogram; each section of the piece depicts a place and its characteristics: the shinkansen (bullet) train in Japan, birds in Switzerland, and sounds of the city in New York. In addition to a research paper: “Spectralism’s Synthesis of Past Musical Traditions: New Musical Discourse and Compositional Technique”, this piece was composed in fulfillment of the Barrett Honors Undergraduate Thesis. |
Four Character Pieces (2014)
I. Makes Me Anxious II. Untitled (for Naomi) III. We Need to Talk (premiered 2014) IV. Our Covers are a Fortress (premiered 2014) Hanah Vutipadadorn | piano (2016, Tempe, AZ) |
Stream of Consciousness (2016)
Commissioned by Tyler Flowers. Tyler Flowers | alto saxophone (2016 Tempe, AZ) Stream of Consciousness depicts a continuation of running thoughts, resulting in seemingly disjunct gestures. |
Sought-After Dream Object (2016)
Commissioned by Ryan Downey. Ryan Downey | bass (2016 Tempe, AZ) Text by Alaskan poet Sara Guinn. The whimsical and near-nonsensical text is characterized in the music by abrupt changes in dynamics, gestures, and mood, yet repeating motives connect the poetry's similar syllabic patterns. |
Excerpts from Philosophical Melancholia
Philosophical Melancholia full recording (ca. 8'00")
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Philosophical Melancholia (2015, revised 2016)
Nadia Strijbos | violin Erica Jacobs-Perkins | violin Ekaterina Manafova | viola Juan Manuel Marquez Vazquez | cello Alaina Debellevue | piano (2015, Talis Festival & Academy, Saas-Fee, Switzerland) Inspired by Freud’s 1917 essay Mourning and Melancholia: “ the object has not perhaps actually died, but has been lost as an object of love...” |
Excerpts from Drop Your Mask
Drop Your Mask full recording (ca. 10'00")
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Drop Your Mask, for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (2015),
premiered as a special event of the Talis Festival & Academy in conjunction with the Saas-Fee Film Festival. Nadia Strijbos | violin Erica Jacobs-Perkins | violin Ekaterina Manafova | viola Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir | cello Heather Woitena | harp Brendan Ryan | flute (2015, Saas-Fee, Switzerland) |
remember when? begin again (2014, revised 2016)
Kelly Davis | flute Grant Jahn | clarinet Emilio Vazquez | violin Marguerite Salajko | cello Carly Bates | piano (2015, Tempe, AZ) remember when? begin again was inspired by the techniques of minimalism, and the "trance-like" nature described of the often-used repeating patterns. I equate the repeating figures with memory and nostalgia. |
The Glass House (2015)
Written for the Ninth Annual School of Music Composers Concert, in collaboration with the Phoenix Art Museum. Amanda Romani | violin Jingting Liu | violin Daniel Lorenzo | viola Emily Hunt | cello (2015, Phoenix Art Museum, AZ) The Glass House received a coaching by Weigang Li of the Shanghai String Quartet. |
Nebulous Beings (2014)
Marguerite Salajko | cello (2014, Tempe, AZ) |
Get Some Sleep (2014)
Katie Sample | guitar (2014, Tempe, AZ) |
Covers, recorded at Frank & Camille's Pianos in Long Island, New York, June 2014.
Bethany Brown | piano |
Before the Storm (2013)
Emilio Vazquez | violin Clarice Collins | violin Ali Friedman | viola Marguerite Salajko | cello (2013, Tempe, AZ) This piece was read by the St. Lawrence String Quartet at the ASU School of Music. Before the Storm was chosen for publication in Arizona State University's 2014-2015 Lux Undergraduate Creative Review. |
Dreams (2012)
Joyce Yin | soprano Emi Smith | piano (2013, Phoenix Art Museum Society of Composers Concert, AZ) Part of the text setting studies from Fall 2012 at ASU. Text by Langston Hughes. No copyright infringement intended. |
Restless (2012)
Emilio Vazquez | violin Ali Smurawa | violin Ashley Carroll | viola Beth Weser | cello (2013, Tempe, AZ) This piece was read by the Juilliard String Quartet at the ASU School of Music. |
Masquerade (2012)
Emilio Vazquez | violin (2012, Tempe, AZ) |
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