Short work for Toy Piano. Live recording of premiere by Mark Robson, Brand Library, Glendale CA, April 2014. Title and concept from writings of Robert Fludd.

Chymicall (Toy Piano)

Live Recording of Duo Gelland at Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln NE, Oct 2014

Difficult Ferns

Limitless work for Human Voices and prerecorded sounds. Better classified as "sound-scenario" than "piece of music".

Demonology by way of audition, as powerful response to the naked eye.

"Moreover, as the cicadas above our heads sing and converse with each other in the summer heat, they also seem to me to be watching us" —Socrates, in Plato's "The Phaedrus"

Performed by Tara Loeper (voice), Anaïs Nony (Narrator), and Abbie Gobeli (Electronics), 22 February 2015, Minneapolis

N.B. This piece is designed for spacialized electronics in a 360-degree immersive environment. An MP3 does an exceedingly bad job of reproducing this effect, but has its own interesting qualities.


Daimoniogrammes

Five studies in shadow, reflection, and the inner "secret" sounds of the trumpet.

...Sine corpore amat, corpus putat esse, quod umbra est.
—Ovid (Echo and Narcissus)

Performed by Noah Ophoven-Baldwin and Jake Baldwin, 22 February 2015, Minneapolis

Umbra II

Piece made of "Mobiles" (see Michel Butor).

Text by AZ, after Roland Barthes' "Incidents". 

Prerecorded narration by Cathy Sypal.

Performed by Cory Healey (Percussion) and Toby Ramaswamy (Electronics), 22 February 2015, Minneapolis. 



Further Incidents

Ledascape (2014) for Baritone Voice, Bass Clarinet, Flugelhorn, and Trombone.

Text by Andrés González

Recording of premiere by Loadbang, Opera America Center, May 2015

Ledascape

Piss Lasso, for ensemble (by AZ, 2015)

Adam Zahller (El. Bass/Recorder), Nelson Devereaux (A. Sax), Cole Pulice (Ten/Bari sax.), Jake Baldwin (Tpt), Noah Ophoven-Baldwin (tpt), Andrew Thoreen (trb), Michelle Kinney (cello), Joe Strachan (rhodes), Andres Crovetti (Drums), Cory Healey (drums)

Recorded and Mixed by Mike Duffy

Piss Lasso Mvt 5: But only doves and lambs are harbored there...

Piss Lasso, for ensemble (by AZ, 2015)

Performed by Six Families:

Adam Zahller (El. Bass/Recorder), Nelson Devereaux (A. Sax), Cole Pulice (Ten/Bari sax.), Jake Baldwin (Tpt), Noah Ophoven-Baldwin (tpt), Andrew Thoreen (trb), Michelle Kinney (cello), Joe Strachan (rhodes), Andres Crovetti (Drums), Cory Healey (drums)

Recorded and Mixed by Mike Duffy

Piss Lasso Mvt. 4: El tibio lazo de orina

Piss Lasso Mvt. 3:  She-wolf, cold meat ocean

Piss Lasso Prelude, Mvt 1:  Kyrie eleison, Mvt 2: Las golosas glosolalias de las microgónadas

Short work for two violins

Dedicated to Duo Gelland

Premiered April 2016 in Minneapolis



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