A performance from 2007 of a song I wrote in 1988 for steel string guitar and vocal, very simple, percussive strumming and melody. Recorded at SICA gallery, one of the Music of invention series of performances. Photo is from the same evening.

Book Of Darkness (live)

Guitar and voice, performed by me and recorded live at Shore Institute of Contemporary Art in 2007. Song was written around 1990.

Carlton Wilkinson's Album

Walking (I Sing)

Written by me and premiered by Sabrina Berger Kuratana at Fontainebleau 1992. This recording is also Sabrina from around 1996, on elec. 5-string violin.

Libra 1st movement

This was the computer music for the first movement of a cantata based on Pioneer 10, launched March 3, 1972

p10mvt1

The Locrian Chamber Players premiere of my second string quartet, completed in 2016. The performance was June 2 at Riverside Church, New York. The SQis in four movements, recorded here live in one continuous sound file – brief silences separate the movements.  Headphones are best as the recording is ambient. I haven't done any enhancement to the audio, some of which is very quiet.

0:00 1. Circle Dance
4:20: 2. Fantasy
10:30: 3. Churchyard
16:14 4. Drum

String Quartet 2016

String Quartet (2016) – Locrian Chamber Players

This is a piece commissioned by Peter Jarvis for this concert and performed here live by Peter, multipercussion, and Michiyo Suzuki, bass clarinet. The title refers to the August eclipse, which occurred while I was writing the piece. The score was finished just about a week and a half ahead of the performance date.

The performance was Sept. 18, 2017 at Composers Concordance's 
‘Terrible Twos’ concert at William Paterson University, as part of the music department's New Music series.

The photo here is from NASA's collection of photos of that eclipse.

Lunatic (live)

This is the third movement of my String Quartet 2016. Each movement is relatively the length of a song (3-5 minutes). I was thinking about various pop songs forms while composing this, but none served as deliberate models. This piece, Churchyard, is very quiet and meditative and stands nicely on its own. Titles in most my work these days generally come after a piece is finished or pretty far along, the aim being to introduce the mood that I hear in the music, without getting in the way. Image was found online and I'm not sure of the place or photographer.

String Quartet 2016 Mvmt 3 Churchyard

Certain Dark Things was originally written in 2007 for piano solo. This orchestra version was commissioned by Roy Gussman and the Monmouth Symphony Orchestra and performed by them (on a program with Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition) October 19, 2009.

Certain Dark Things for orchestra

Commissioned by the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, in cooperation with Composers Concordance and Composers Guild of New Jersey. Dedicated to Peter Jarvis and NJPE. Payton MacDonald had the idea for a program of all small percussion instruments—that could be carried in a backpack. The group commissioned about a dozen composers. This is my contribution. Recorded live at William Paterson University Feb. 3, 2020. The title refers to the proportion of the orbit of Venus around to that of Earth—13:8. The music uses that as a structural element.

Rose Of Venus (perc. quartet) live

An early complete piano piece, which I performed on my junior year recital at Trenton State College, 1986. I love the rough-house emotion of the piece and the performance. The style is immature, but it's a lot of fun and has the hallmarks of my later music.

Concert Rag 2 Junior Recital

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I am a Libra. I'm married with two children and live near the ocean. I have a Ph.D. and a dog. I once wrote obituaries for a living. 

I am a recording artist and writer/editor. I write songs, computer music, chamber music with and without electronics, symphonic music and choral music. Many of my articles are available online, here for instance, <A HREF="http://www.thestreet.com/author/759536/carlton-wilkinson/all.html">at TheStreet</A>, where I wrote articles on the intersection of music and money. I was for 15 years a classical music columnist for the Asbury Park Press and author of a music blog, <a href="http://www.theandofone.blogspot.com">TheAndOfOne</a>. I am an adjunct professor at The College of New Jersey.