List of Works
Attempted Complete List of Works:
Myriad undocumented and documented improvisations are not included.
This list currently starts in 2000. @-)))) I have written many, many more pieces before this date and not attempted to document these as yet. There are also many songs not included in this list.
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2000:
Cardiographic Improvisations (collection of 5 pieces for small and large ensembles) performed at Mills College Chapel, Mills College, Oakland, CA on 3/4/00.
She Dolls with Dollies (based on a text by Kurt Schwitters) (for any ensemble or solo instrument)
performed by the Mills College Contemporary Performance Ensemble(Fred Frith/Steed Cowart, directors) at Mills College, Oakland, CA on 4/25/00.
2001:
Ten to the Googolplex (a collection of improvisations for prepared Rhodes electric piano):
1) Whimbrel on White Linen - long wails
2) Coiled Plumbbob - scratch and throb
3) Whigmaleerian Duologue - hornbow, chiff, flap, squeak, and chime
4) Planarian Egress - crunch, drone, and ting
2002:
Red Fish (for prepared Rhodes electric piano): performed at SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF, CA on 4/28/02.
On Civil Disobedience (for piano): performed at the Kensington Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Kensington, CA on 8/11/02.
Beestings: bovine colostrum (for large ensemble), performed by Bilge/Radiolaria on 11/10/02 at the SIMM series, SF, CA, and 12/03/02 at the Black Box, Oakland, CA. Recording of SIMM performance exists.
2003:
Milkfish, Warily(for solo piano), premiered as part of a piano salon organised by Tom Welsh(New Albion Records) and featuring Sarah Cahill, Luciano Chessa, and Gabriella Frank, at Cafe du Nord, SF, CA on 01/13/03:
DalabaFrithGlickRiemanKihlstedt (quartet improvisations): recording released 4/03 by the Accretions label(San Diego). Includes these pieces: how light, a potato chip; the distance that separates dreams, spicule maneuver, worm anvils, shallow weather, lucy has a new pet kitty, and ant farm morning. with Lesli Dalaba(tpt), Fred Frith(gt.) and Carla Kihlstedt(violin.)
Capsicum Patriot(improvisation on prepared Rhodes electric piano): performed live on KFJC, Los Altos Hills, CA on 4/28/03.
The Galactogogue Song (for chamber ensemble), performed by the Mills College Contemporary Performance Ensemble on 5/3/03.
Milk Money ( for Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Bassoon, Tuba, Percussion, Electric Guitar, Piano, and Soprano)
premiered by Bilge/Radiolaria at The Black Box, Oakland, CA 10/03 (recording was not made!)
Timbral Shifts I.-VIII.(for 5 to a googol of instruments.)
Not Prophecy (for prepared Rhodes Electric Piano) - recorded version released on "Trilogy from the Outside", 2009
2004:
Timbral Shifts IX. - XVI. (for 5 to a googol of instruments.)
Love Feast: String Quartet No. 1 (in four movements):
1) declaration
2) dance
3) meditation
4) Love Feast
Recognition of Faces (for prepared Rhodes electric piano and celeste) - recorded version released on "Trilogy From The Outside", 2009
Heart of Milk, Patterns in the Milk (for pipe organ)
Milkfish (a collection of 10 short pieces for piano including Milkfish, Warily from 2003)
Milkfish, Source (adaptation of one of the Milkfish series for piano and cello), also called Milksource ( at least 3:42, with optional improvisation)
Milk Sad (for piano)
Milk Bird at Midnight (for trombone)
2005:
Presentism 1(aborted) and Presentism 2 (for indeterminate instruments) - premiered at the Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival, 2005, sponsored by a grant from the SF Bay Area chapter of the American Composer's Forum
Two Tools (for Bass Clarinet, Piano, Viola, and Cello): 1) Maul (3:42), 2) Awl ( 6:35)
You Are Not Awake (for 2 Rhodes Electric Pianos)
Inverting the Sphere (formerly known as Waveses) ( for Hammond Organ with Leslie cabinet, Rhodes electric piano, melodica, celeste, and toy piano)- released on "Trilogy From The Outside", 2009
2006:
3 Questions of an Ongoing Nature (for 2 Rhodes Electric Pianos and Melodica)
1) Question 1
2) Illustrious Adobo
3) Question 3
Doll House (for piano)
The Interstices (for piano)
1-5
2007:
Spring House (for piano)
1-3
Agape, (a three movement suite themed around my Brethren heritage)
1) The Examination Service (notated for piano, can be performed as solo piano or with one improvising instrument)
2) Footwashing (for tape, toy piano, chime, and celeste)
3) The Holy Kiss (an improvisation)
premiered at the Meridian Gallery, 12/12/07, SF, CA, sponsored by a Meet The Composer grant
2008:
Ghost House, N.M. ( for at least five instruments, score and instructions)
premiered by the Mills College Contemporary Performance Ensemble, Spring Concert, 2008, Oakland, CA
I See Listening As A Creative House ( for choir, bricks, plates, and bolts)
premiered by the Cornelius Cardew Choir, at the Chapel of the Chimes Summer Solstice Concert, Oakland, CA. Recorded and Videoed. 6/08.
Snail Road House I (For at least 3 instruments (66% must be strings), (graphic scores and instructions with timings)
premiered at Listen/Space, Brooklyn, NY, 7/12/08 (recording exists) ; performed by Tom Swafford (vn), Shayna Dulberger (acoustic bass), and EGR (modular Rhodes.) Performed at Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL, 8/16/08 (not recorded) by Shayna Dulberger (acoustic bass), Fred Lonberg - Holm (cello), and EGR (modular Rhodes.) Performed at Biosonicist Salon #1, 2009, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA by Shayna Dulberger (acoustic bass), Chris Welcome (electric guitar), and EGR (modular Rhodes)
Helix Aspersa Series (graphic scores made in collaboration with snails)
I - VII
Helix Aspersa II was performed as a prepared Rhodes solo at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn, NY on 7/13/09. (recording and video documentation exist)
These pieces were performed many times in varying configurations with Daniel Godston (tpt) during the Summer of 2008, "Snail Trail Tour." (recordings exist.)
Helix Aspersa III was performed as a quartet by Andrew Bishop (alto sax), Tim Flood (acoustic bass), Daniel Godston (tpt), and EGR (prepared Rhodes) at Kerryville Concert House on 8/12/08. (recording exists)
Helix Aspersa III was performed as a piano solo at the Mills College Contemporary Performance Ensemble Concert on 12/5/08. (recording and video documentation exist)
Felis Catus I-III (graphic scores made in collaboration with our cat, Zibet)Recorded in Spring 2009 by Shayna Dulberger (acoustic bass), Chris Welcome (electric guitar), and EGR (modular Rhodes).
2009:
Oblique Oblations (for piano):
Oblique Oblations 1 and 2
Little Happy Dancing Head
Circle House and Chutes (for 4 keyboards, percussion, a Herd of musicians and a Handler)
[based on Cattle Herding behavior as described by Temple Grandin]
2010:
The Cloud Thief (for at least 5 instruments) premiered by Mills College Contemporary Performance Ensemble
Nursery and Machine Houses (for any instruments, or anything perceived as an instrument)
premiered by Chicago Scratch Orchestra (in Chicago), performed by ad hoc trio with Andrew Bishop/Dan Godston/myself/audience (Ann Arbor), and performed by Mills College Contemporary Performance Ensemble (2010)
Ghost House, UT,(for any instruments)
Ghost House, NV, (for any instruments)
The Paramecium's Rebuttal, for piano
AROOSTICHERI (for automated Rhodes electric piano)
Sleeping House, for prepared Rhodes electric piano and multiple asynchronous loops
"as if redirecting energy that might get [you] into mischief" Thomas Pynchon, for electric guitar, toy piano, and melodica
2011:
Unused Titles:
Bedreamt, for piano
Mumbledicular, for piano
Knitting, for piano or piano and indeterminate instruments ( Knitting 1, 2, and 3 composed during this year)
2012:
Snail Road House II, a setting of "Helix Aspersa Series" (for at least 3 performers, at least 66% strings), perf. by the Snail Orchestra, Berkeley Arts Festival, 1/28/12, recording/video exist
Snail Cantos, recorded by the Snail Orchestra, New/improved Studio
Knitting ( Knitting 4 - 15, 17-21 composed during this year) premiered by Mills College Contemporary Performance Ensemble on two separate concerts, 5/2/12, and 12/5/12
Added Unused Title : "Think Thoughtfully About Bees" for piano (this was originally Knitting 6, I felt it didn't fit the series)
Water and Fire Pieces (for indeterminate ensemble)
New Rain Canto: (for any instruments)
2013:
Wings Of Trees, (for ensemble of flute, trumpet, trombone, amplified cello, synthesizer, and drum kit)
Thy Devil's Waistcoat, for piano (suite)
1) Thy Curving Devil(4:26 m)
2) Thy Devil's Waistcoat (3:38 m)
3) Thy Angling Devil (as long as 4:30 m, but usually shorter)
4) Is It Not Enough to Be Forthright? (3:50m)
5) The Questioning Resolve of Those Who Need to Move Forward Proves Successful (2:44 m)
2014:
My Mother On The Bus, (suite for indeterminate improvising ensemble)
1) My Mother On The Bus
2) One Cloud Cracks On A Coffeetable
3) The Jazz Of The Open Desert
4) Waiting For Yolk To Descend
Underground Fold Song, for Guitar quartet
A History of Wildland Manners, for piano (suite)
1) The Cold and Pulseless Heart of the Buried Acorn
2) A Cosmopolitan Nightmare of Wildland Manners
3) I Wanted to Be Less Volatile
4) Left Untouched, His Fingers Turned to Gelatin
5) Apropos of Organic
2015:
Immortality, for speaker, cello and piano
Lasting, for piano (suite):
Betwix't The Plates, Roots (for Beth), for piano
In The Length of the Rat's Tongue Is A Puzzle, for piano
On The Shore, In The Smoke, Under The Lost Comb, for piano
The Rock Unwound, for piano
The Warmth of Water and The Forgiveness of Ice, for piano
Lasting, for piano
2016:
Bright-Eyed and Bushy Tailed, a piano concerto for unspecified instrumental ensemble, piano, and music stands
She Looks Over The Green From A Height, (for any instruments and piano or keyboard)
2017:
Broken Ice Slides Down The Frozen Sea, (for any instruments and piano or keyboard, or for solo piano, or solo piano and tape)
A Hint Of An Old Memory Changes Its Context Irrevocably
(for at least 3 instruments, two of which should be mallets or keyboards) [approx. 10m, variable]
Two Fiddle Tunes:
The Leeches
Rumpled CAT Scan
2018:
He Believed In The Casual Assent Of The Light, piano suite
Myriad undocumented and documented improvisations are not included.
This list currently starts in 2000. @-)))) I have written many, many more pieces before this date and not attempted to document these as yet. There are also many songs not included in this list.
===============================
2000:
Cardiographic Improvisations (collection of 5 pieces for small and large ensembles) performed at Mills College Chapel, Mills College, Oakland, CA on 3/4/00.
She Dolls with Dollies (based on a text by Kurt Schwitters) (for any ensemble or solo instrument)
performed by the Mills College Contemporary Performance Ensemble(Fred Frith/Steed Cowart, directors) at Mills College, Oakland, CA on 4/25/00.
2001:
Ten to the Googolplex (a collection of improvisations for prepared Rhodes electric piano):
1) Whimbrel on White Linen - long wails
2) Coiled Plumbbob - scratch and throb
3) Whigmaleerian Duologue - hornbow, chiff, flap, squeak, and chime
4) Planarian Egress - crunch, drone, and ting
2002:
Red Fish (for prepared Rhodes electric piano): performed at SIMM Series, Musicians Union Hall, SF, CA on 4/28/02.
On Civil Disobedience (for piano): performed at the Kensington Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Kensington, CA on 8/11/02.
Beestings: bovine colostrum (for large ensemble), performed by Bilge/Radiolaria on 11/10/02 at the SIMM series, SF, CA, and 12/03/02 at the Black Box, Oakland, CA. Recording of SIMM performance exists.
2003:
Milkfish, Warily(for solo piano), premiered as part of a piano salon organised by Tom Welsh(New Albion Records) and featuring Sarah Cahill, Luciano Chessa, and Gabriella Frank, at Cafe du Nord, SF, CA on 01/13/03:
DalabaFrithGlickRiemanKihlstedt (quartet improvisations): recording released 4/03 by the Accretions label(San Diego). Includes these pieces: how light, a potato chip; the distance that separates dreams, spicule maneuver, worm anvils, shallow weather, lucy has a new pet kitty, and ant farm morning. with Lesli Dalaba(tpt), Fred Frith(gt.) and Carla Kihlstedt(violin.)
Capsicum Patriot(improvisation on prepared Rhodes electric piano): performed live on KFJC, Los Altos Hills, CA on 4/28/03.
The Galactogogue Song (for chamber ensemble), performed by the Mills College Contemporary Performance Ensemble on 5/3/03.
Milk Money ( for Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Bassoon, Tuba, Percussion, Electric Guitar, Piano, and Soprano)
premiered by Bilge/Radiolaria at The Black Box, Oakland, CA 10/03 (recording was not made!)
Timbral Shifts I.-VIII.(for 5 to a googol of instruments.)
Not Prophecy (for prepared Rhodes Electric Piano) - recorded version released on "Trilogy from the Outside", 2009
2004:
Timbral Shifts IX. - XVI. (for 5 to a googol of instruments.)
Love Feast: String Quartet No. 1 (in four movements):
1) declaration
2) dance
3) meditation
4) Love Feast
Recognition of Faces (for prepared Rhodes electric piano and celeste) - recorded version released on "Trilogy From The Outside", 2009
Heart of Milk, Patterns in the Milk (for pipe organ)
Milkfish (a collection of 10 short pieces for piano including Milkfish, Warily from 2003)
Milkfish, Source (adaptation of one of the Milkfish series for piano and cello), also called Milksource ( at least 3:42, with optional improvisation)
Milk Sad (for piano)
Milk Bird at Midnight (for trombone)
2005:
Presentism 1(aborted) and Presentism 2 (for indeterminate instruments) - premiered at the Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival, 2005, sponsored by a grant from the SF Bay Area chapter of the American Composer's Forum
Two Tools (for Bass Clarinet, Piano, Viola, and Cello): 1) Maul (3:42), 2) Awl ( 6:35)
You Are Not Awake (for 2 Rhodes Electric Pianos)
Inverting the Sphere (formerly known as Waveses) ( for Hammond Organ with Leslie cabinet, Rhodes electric piano, melodica, celeste, and toy piano)- released on "Trilogy From The Outside", 2009
2006:
3 Questions of an Ongoing Nature (for 2 Rhodes Electric Pianos and Melodica)
1) Question 1
2) Illustrious Adobo
3) Question 3
Doll House (for piano)
The Interstices (for piano)
1-5
2007:
Spring House (for piano)
1-3
Agape, (a three movement suite themed around my Brethren heritage)
1) The Examination Service (notated for piano, can be performed as solo piano or with one improvising instrument)
2) Footwashing (for tape, toy piano, chime, and celeste)
3) The Holy Kiss (an improvisation)
premiered at the Meridian Gallery, 12/12/07, SF, CA, sponsored by a Meet The Composer grant
2008:
Ghost House, N.M. ( for at least five instruments, score and instructions)
premiered by the Mills College Contemporary Performance Ensemble, Spring Concert, 2008, Oakland, CA
I See Listening As A Creative House ( for choir, bricks, plates, and bolts)
premiered by the Cornelius Cardew Choir, at the Chapel of the Chimes Summer Solstice Concert, Oakland, CA. Recorded and Videoed. 6/08.
Snail Road House I (For at least 3 instruments (66% must be strings), (graphic scores and instructions with timings)
premiered at Listen/Space, Brooklyn, NY, 7/12/08 (recording exists) ; performed by Tom Swafford (vn), Shayna Dulberger (acoustic bass), and EGR (modular Rhodes.) Performed at Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL, 8/16/08 (not recorded) by Shayna Dulberger (acoustic bass), Fred Lonberg - Holm (cello), and EGR (modular Rhodes.) Performed at Biosonicist Salon #1, 2009, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA by Shayna Dulberger (acoustic bass), Chris Welcome (electric guitar), and EGR (modular Rhodes)
Helix Aspersa Series (graphic scores made in collaboration with snails)
I - VII
Helix Aspersa II was performed as a prepared Rhodes solo at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn, NY on 7/13/09. (recording and video documentation exist)
These pieces were performed many times in varying configurations with Daniel Godston (tpt) during the Summer of 2008, "Snail Trail Tour." (recordings exist.)
Helix Aspersa III was performed as a quartet by Andrew Bishop (alto sax), Tim Flood (acoustic bass), Daniel Godston (tpt), and EGR (prepared Rhodes) at Kerryville Concert House on 8/12/08. (recording exists)
Helix Aspersa III was performed as a piano solo at the Mills College Contemporary Performance Ensemble Concert on 12/5/08. (recording and video documentation exist)
Felis Catus I-III (graphic scores made in collaboration with our cat, Zibet)Recorded in Spring 2009 by Shayna Dulberger (acoustic bass), Chris Welcome (electric guitar), and EGR (modular Rhodes).
2009:
Oblique Oblations (for piano):
Oblique Oblations 1 and 2
Little Happy Dancing Head
Circle House and Chutes (for 4 keyboards, percussion, a Herd of musicians and a Handler)
[based on Cattle Herding behavior as described by Temple Grandin]
2010:
The Cloud Thief (for at least 5 instruments) premiered by Mills College Contemporary Performance Ensemble
Nursery and Machine Houses (for any instruments, or anything perceived as an instrument)
premiered by Chicago Scratch Orchestra (in Chicago), performed by ad hoc trio with Andrew Bishop/Dan Godston/myself/audience (Ann Arbor), and performed by Mills College Contemporary Performance Ensemble (2010)
Ghost House, UT,(for any instruments)
Ghost House, NV, (for any instruments)
The Paramecium's Rebuttal, for piano
AROOSTICHERI (for automated Rhodes electric piano)
Sleeping House, for prepared Rhodes electric piano and multiple asynchronous loops
"as if redirecting energy that might get [you] into mischief" Thomas Pynchon, for electric guitar, toy piano, and melodica
2011:
Unused Titles:
Bedreamt, for piano
Mumbledicular, for piano
Knitting, for piano or piano and indeterminate instruments ( Knitting 1, 2, and 3 composed during this year)
2012:
Snail Road House II, a setting of "Helix Aspersa Series" (for at least 3 performers, at least 66% strings), perf. by the Snail Orchestra, Berkeley Arts Festival, 1/28/12, recording/video exist
Snail Cantos, recorded by the Snail Orchestra, New/improved Studio
Knitting ( Knitting 4 - 15, 17-21 composed during this year) premiered by Mills College Contemporary Performance Ensemble on two separate concerts, 5/2/12, and 12/5/12
Added Unused Title : "Think Thoughtfully About Bees" for piano (this was originally Knitting 6, I felt it didn't fit the series)
Water and Fire Pieces (for indeterminate ensemble)
New Rain Canto: (for any instruments)
2013:
Wings Of Trees, (for ensemble of flute, trumpet, trombone, amplified cello, synthesizer, and drum kit)
Thy Devil's Waistcoat, for piano (suite)
1) Thy Curving Devil(4:26 m)
2) Thy Devil's Waistcoat (3:38 m)
3) Thy Angling Devil (as long as 4:30 m, but usually shorter)
4) Is It Not Enough to Be Forthright? (3:50m)
5) The Questioning Resolve of Those Who Need to Move Forward Proves Successful (2:44 m)
2014:
My Mother On The Bus, (suite for indeterminate improvising ensemble)
1) My Mother On The Bus
2) One Cloud Cracks On A Coffeetable
3) The Jazz Of The Open Desert
4) Waiting For Yolk To Descend
Underground Fold Song, for Guitar quartet
A History of Wildland Manners, for piano (suite)
1) The Cold and Pulseless Heart of the Buried Acorn
2) A Cosmopolitan Nightmare of Wildland Manners
3) I Wanted to Be Less Volatile
4) Left Untouched, His Fingers Turned to Gelatin
5) Apropos of Organic
2015:
Immortality, for speaker, cello and piano
Lasting, for piano (suite):
Betwix't The Plates, Roots (for Beth), for piano
In The Length of the Rat's Tongue Is A Puzzle, for piano
On The Shore, In The Smoke, Under The Lost Comb, for piano
The Rock Unwound, for piano
The Warmth of Water and The Forgiveness of Ice, for piano
Lasting, for piano
2016:
Bright-Eyed and Bushy Tailed, a piano concerto for unspecified instrumental ensemble, piano, and music stands
She Looks Over The Green From A Height, (for any instruments and piano or keyboard)
2017:
Broken Ice Slides Down The Frozen Sea, (for any instruments and piano or keyboard, or for solo piano, or solo piano and tape)
A Hint Of An Old Memory Changes Its Context Irrevocably
(for at least 3 instruments, two of which should be mallets or keyboards) [approx. 10m, variable]
Two Fiddle Tunes:
The Leeches
Rumpled CAT Scan
2018:
He Believed In The Casual Assent Of The Light, piano suite