The compositions with links on them can be downloaded and played with any MP3 compatible player. Because of the size of the files I don't recommend trying to play them over the 'net. Right click on the links and select Save Target As... (or whatever the appropriate function is in your browser).
For multimedia works see Multi-media Works
| Composition | Date | Length | Notes |
| Whirled-Wind (5MB) |
2007 | 5:19 | Ambient. Windy. |
| Pulse (9.41MB) |
2006 | 10:16 | This peice began as music for the video "Pulse". I later extended and revised the music into a stand-alone work. The piece is constructed as a contrasting A-B-A' structure. The opening section is a meoldic, tonal composition with arpeggiated accompianament, punctuated by the "pulse", that fades into a point of repose. The middle section, which also functions as a development of the theme, switches to a dissonant, pulsating double "canon" that is blended with fragments of the main theme and arppegiated figures. The recapitualtion varies from the exposition by continuing to build in texture to the end. Produced with CSound and Notelist. |
| Pretty Flowers (3.1MB) |
2005 | 3:23 | Music for the video "Pretty Flowers". The music is very basic 12-bar blues, a light, somewhat tounge-in-cheek composition to match the images of wildflowers. Produced with CSound and Notelist. |
| A Resting Place (5.5MB) |
2005 | 6:00 | Music for the video "A Resting Place". The music mirrors the concept of the visuals - a stuggle to find a place of rest within the busy-ness of life. The melodic material is taken from the hymn My Faith Has Found a Resting Place. Produced with CSound and Notelist. |
| SunflowerSerenade (2.11MB) |
2005 | 2:18 | Music for the video "Sunflower Serenade". It's not really a serenade in form, but a short sonta in 5/8 time. Produced with CSound and Notelist. |
| Ecstacy In Yellow (2.14MB) |
2005 | 2:20 | Music for the video Ecstacy in Yellow. Produced with CSound and Notelist. |
| Where Audelia Runs Out (21.6MB) (Revised 2006) |
1989 | 23:36 | Yamaha DX7, Kawai, and Yamaha FB01 synthesizers controlled by a PC over MIDI.
The 2006 Revision is the same piece, note for note, but using CSound as the synthesizer. I was never happy with the sound quality of the original. Much of the development section in the original is muddy and the counterpoint does not come through clearly. The revised version is much closer to the way the piece was envisioned. |
| Minimally NOT in C (11.7MB) |
1984 | 12:50 | Yamaha DX7 controlled by a PC over MIDI. Minimilist style. The whole score fits on one page. |
| ...on the threshold of identity (9.8MB) |
1984 | 10:42 | For Synclavier II digital synthesizer and percussion. Another computer composition. The percussion instruments for this piece consisted of "found objects" such as wooden sticks, pots and pans, and a cardboard box bass drum. The percussion parts were performed by my fellow composition students. |
| Calypso (2.76MB) |
1984 | 6:02 | For Synclavier II digital synthesizer. Another computer composition. I generated the "theme" with a computer program and then cut and pasted it into a piece using inversion, retrograde, etc. |
| White Dawn Streams (9.85MB) |
1983 | 10:45 | For symphony orchestra, with Synclavier II digital synthesizer.
This is my Master's thesis. It was selected as the winning composition for the annual student composition contest and performed by the school orcestra. |
| PASSBAND: Tocatta (3.77MB) |
1983 | 8:14 | For Synclavier II digital synthesizer. Another computer composition. Sounds like an organist on speed. |
| drips:drops:drones:drains (6.61MB) |
1982 | 14:27 | For Synclavier II digital synthesizer.
The idea for this piece came one afternoon as I sat on the doorstep to my apartment listening to the rain, the dripping faucet and the moaning sound the plumbing tended to make. The drone sounds were written "by hand" while the drips and drops were created using a computer program. |
| Ballet | 1982 | 8:40 | A collage of fragments from several ballet. Each fragment was selected by a computer program. I patched them together into a note file for the Synclavier II digital synthesizer. |
| Portraits (13MB) |
1981 | 14:12 | String trio in four movements. The movements each represent a photograph taken by my
friend David Alexander.
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| Nocturne (12.7MB) |
1981 | 13:55 | For trombone and tape (synthesizer). Uses a quote from a Chopin Nocturne as the main theme. |
| Diverge (6.84MB) |
1980 | 7:28 | Woodwind quintet and percussion. Won second place in the TMEA student composition contest. |
| Fun (7.08MB) |
1980 | 7:44 | My second synthesizer composition. Moog studio synthesizer. Better than the first, but still got a long way to go... |
| Dance of the Plasmobes (4.19MB) |
1980 | 4:35 | A tape piece (musiqe concrete) using some steel mixing bowls I got from the kitchen. |
| Phases (8.9MB) |
1980 | 8:50 | For clarinet and percussion. |
| Grief, The Lean Predator | 1980 | -:-- | For trumpet and piano. |
| Ec-1-80 | 1980 | 8:04 | My first synthesizer composition. Moog studio synthesizer. Not very good, I'm afraid. |
| Piano Sonata I II III | 1979 | 3:45 - 3:05 - 3:03 | Piano Sonata in three movements, from my senior recital, 1979. Performed with Notelist synthesizer. |
| Nanny | 1978 | 2:58 | A short piano piece from about 1978. Written for a friend whose nickname was "Nanny". Performed with Notelist synthesizer. |
| Prelude | 1977 | 1:12 | A short piano piece from about 1977. The last two pages are missing. Performed with Notelist synthesizer. |