a spell of protection, a beacon home, the infinite path | current solo performance work for saxophone, text, percussion (2023- )
NOTATIONS
Litanies of Trees | 2019 | variable duration | for voice + ensemble | for Ensemble Klang
For Marian Anderson (The Whole World) | 2019 | for viola + vibraphone, to a poem by Camae Ayewa
Elegies at the Border | 2018 | 30’ | for voice + ensemble | commissioned by Ensemble Klang
Philadelphia Rising Suite | 2015 | jazz ensemble
For Aiyana & Tamir (Elegy) | 2015 | mixed ensemble
Elegy for the Bakr children (Gaza Beach) | 2014 | open duration | saxophone & string ensemble
Critical Foreign Dependencies Initiative 2008 | 2012 | ~ 25’ | for voice and ensemble
Elegy for the schoolboys at Ghazi Khan | 2010 | 20-25’ | commissioned by Ensemble Modelo 62
The Dutch Language (2009) 8’ | commissioned by Ensemble Klang
[sic] (2008) 1’08 | commissioned by Ensemble Klang
Archivum Mirum Et Turbarum for large ensemble (2004) 16’
Bronze Age for trombone and cassette tape players (2004)
(laqoiopal) version for large ensemble (2003) 18’30
(laqoiopal) version for 5 string instruments (2003) 16’
we get it in the pocket, you get it in the neck octet (2003) 11’
(5+x)aphorisms for sax, piano, and bass (2003) 10’
The Scattering of Numbers for large ensemble, speaker and video (2002) 20’
[ubers glasperlenspiel] for saxophone quartet (2002) 10’
Stachowski Variation for junk percussion and interactive computer | 7-10’ (2001)
Concerto (after Kundera) for piano (concertante), 5 percussionists, 15 solo strings (2000) 30’
Thread open instrumentation (2000) 5-7’
String Quartet No. 2 (2000) 20’
Three Bagatelles for Orchestra (1999) 12’, 13’30, 6’06
Piano Quartet (1999) 5’
Mechanical Failure oboe (or violin), bassoon (or violoncello) and piano (1999) 9’
Ungoliant chamber concerto for 14 instruments (1998) 20’
Tuba Concerto (tuba, 5 percussionists, piano, strings) (1998) 32’
String Quartet No. 1 (1998) 12’
Prelude for bass clarinet (1998) 4’
Sonata for alto saxophone and piano (1997) 8’30
Prelude in the style of Claude Debussy for piano (1997) 4’
Clarinet Quartet (1995) 7’
Of the Sun and the Moon for flute (1995) 6’
INSTRUCTIONS / PERFORMANCE ENVIRONMENTS
String Quartet No. 3 (2010) duration variable
Places, or: The Hague Invasion Act (2006/2010) 25-60’ | open instrumentation, video, dancer and text
Quiet System (2009) duration variable | open instrumentation and cassette tape player
Drum/C4 for five percussionists | improvisation structure performed October 2009
Dodging Bullets (2004) for open instrumentation, playback, and video | 23’
Fear/Repetition for speaking voice and loud instruments (2003) c. 5’
the code we use to speak about our disrespect is called time for speaking voice and six percussionists (2001) open duration
in what little hand for four hands and interactive computer [created with Marek Choloniewski] (2001)
Music for David Gordon’s Brain in a Jar for saxophone and interactive computer [created with Marek Choloniewski] (2000)
TEXT
Afterword to Apparitions by Reuben Radding
One is One (Preludes & Fugues) | 48 performance texts | 208 pages (2008)
Bound to Violence one act play for two actors | c. 15’ (2004)
i will not walk self-published, handbound book of 55 poems | numbered edition of 100 (2002)
VIDEO
PRZYPUSZCZENIE improvisation in memoriam Tomek Chołoniewski
LITANIES OF TREES (video version)
VIDEO WORK for Jazz Festival Ljubliana, with Irreversible Entanglements
Questionnaire (2010) music video | 3’08
A Bloodletting (2010) music video | 5’25
Parade (2007) five silent video preludes for Ensemble Klang | 5’
An Abridged List of Options (2006) music video | 9’56
Revolution 5 (2006) music video | 5’09
Things You Cannot See. (2006) music video | 6’06
INSTALLATION
Revolutions in Toronto (audiovisual installation)
Revolutions in Buffalo audiovisual installation
Another World Bank audiovisual installation
Registering Our Exasperation audiovisual installation
untitled audiovisual installation [text, paper, 1/4” tape loop, microphone & speakers]
THEATER / DANCE / INCIDENTAL
incidental music & songs for Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart (a rave fable) by Caridad Svich
“Ahhhhh” co-composed with Chris Seeds for choreography by Lindsay Gilmour
incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2010)
Desire and Decay (2010) live electroacoustic performance to choreography by L. Gilmour
incidental music to wlotka.pl (2006) digital synthesis and sampling for playback
incidental music to Urojenia (2005) digital synthesis and processed saxophone for playback
affettuoso audio playback (2003) 80’