new music & electro-acoustic compositions...

My music has evolved from many visceral encounters with musical works of art ranging from folk music, to jazz, free improvisation, electro-acoustics and contemporary classical composers such as Britten, Messiaen, Stravinsky, Ives, Bartok, Varèse, Lutoslawski, Crumb, Ligeti, Xenakis, Penderecki and many others.

 

Images of creativity sometimes come to me through observing nature or abstract art and sculpture, which draws me into multi dimensional tactile surfaces, lines and proportions of mass and textures waiting to be investigated from many perspectives and be moved through time. I like to be guided by my natural curiosity to explore strange and bittersweet landscapes that continuously unfold with symbolic actors. Sometimes these scenarios are motivated by personal experiences or observations of human and political behaviour abstracted into compositional forces. Within the density and complexities I like to construct, I look for clarity and purpose that in the apparent chaos there can be some order.

 

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2011 Large & Puffy Solo piano [ 3:15 ]
2011 Diving Solo piano [ 3:52 ]
2011 Currents Solo piano [ 1:51 ]
2010 Dream Sequins Prelude Solo Piano [ 4:13 ]
2008-2009 Poems from a Love Triangle Mezzo Soprano, Actor, Flute, Clarinet, Piano, Percussion [ 45:40 ]
Scenes 1 to 5 "The Magician I"
"Words"
"Memories are Made of Bits and Pieces"
"The Net"
The Magician II"		 [ 15:14 ]
Scenes 6 to 9 "Arguments I"
"The Lovers"
"Mary Rose"		 [ 7:53 ]
Scenes 9 to 11 "The Invocation"
"Europa Part I"
"Europa Part II"		 [ 11:44 ]
Scenes 12 to 13 "Europa Part III"
"The Blessing"		 [ 11:35 ]
2007 Suite Ancient Egypt Voice and sample keyboard [ 21:48 ]
2006 Immersions Flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, french horn, trumpet, trombone, 2 percussion, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass [ 9:30 ]
2005 Natural Deception Mezzo sop, fr horn, bass clarinet, bassoon, tape [ 6:22 ]
2005 The Shadow Mezzo sop, clarinet, fr horn, bassoon, cello, percussion [ 9:49 ]
2004/2005 Child's Play [ 11:18 ]
Part 1. I See You voice, clarinet, bassoon, percussion [ 1:57 ]
Part 2. Hide & Seek voice, cello, marimba [ 1:30 ]
Part 3. Don't Tell voice, clarinet, cello [ 1:56 ]
Part 4. Power voice, bassoon, percussion [ 1:45 ]
Part 5. Secrets voice, clarinet, bassoon, cello, percussion [ 1:30 ]
Part 6. Lies voice, clarinet, bassoon, cello, marimba [ 1:35 ]
Part 7. Love Me voice, clarinet, bassoon, cello, percussion [ 1:20 ]
2003 Entre Les Guerres Flute, percussion [ 9:53 ]
2002 Residues Flute, tape [ 10:37 ]
2002 Aspire To? Solo piano [ 10:51 ]
Aspire To? Part 1 [ 4:01 ]
Aspire To? Part 2 [ 1:45 ]
Aspire To? Part 3 [ 5:05 ]
2002 Pleiades Electro-acoustic [ 5:14 ]
2002 Send Between Electro-acoustic [ 9:52 ]
2001 Subterranea Electro-acoustic [ 7:29 ]
1999 Ulysees on the Love Canal

Electro-acoustic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_DDPBcd2CQ

 [ 6:10 ]
1998 Catalunya Soprano sax, piano, percussion [ 5:49 ]
1996 The River Styx Flute, percussion, sample keyboard [ 11:10 ]
1996 Energeia Marimba duet [ 5:00 ]
1994 No Zone Flying Piano, cello [ 15:05 ]
No Zone Flying Part 1 [ 2:21 ]
No Zone Flying Part 2 [ 2:30 ]
No Zone Flying Part 3 [ 2:41 ]
No Zone Flying Part 4 [ 2:54 ]
No Zone Flying Part 5 [ 4:41 ]
1994 Burning Ambitions Violin, percussion, tape [ 13:58 ]
1993 Piano Variations Solo Piano.

This piece is in three movements
Part I
Part II
Part III		 [ 9:23 ]
1983 String Quartet No 2 String Quartet [ 6:33 ]
Piano Variations Part 1 [ 2:53 ]
Piano Variations Part 2 [ 2:59 ]
Piano Variations Part 3 [ 3:31 ]
1992 Les Celébrations De L’Été 2 pianos, string quartet [ 9:56 ]
1989 Zed [4] Bass clarinet, sample keyboard, double bass, percussion [ 5:36 ]
1986 Dangerous Species Clarinet, french horn, cello, piano, percussion [ 8:00 ]