beach scene

Performed by Annie Gårlid, Mathilde Conley, and Nathan Plante
Texts from James Joyce and Hermann Broch
Samples recorded by Noa Frenkel, Mathilde Conley, Andrea van Noord, Annie Gårlid, Constanze Priester, Max Murray and Samuel Stoll - 2014

Max Murray | Szene nach Aktion / for alto, two piccolo trumpets, and fixed media

don't touch

for viola, electro guitar, electric piano, percussion and cello 
performed by KNM ensemble, 2015

Unity

Full title: For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts - as the one dieth, so dieth the other

Performed by ensemble mosaik (Bettina Junge, Simon Strasser, Daniel Plewe) - Berlin Klangwerkstatt - 2015
Samples recorded by Bettina Junge and Simon Strasser

Max Murray | For that which befalleth the sons... / for piccolo, english horn, and fixed media

False Rumor 3B

Hannah Ji - Violin
Jennifer Bewerse - Cello
Sung-Soo Cho - Piano
Chris Herman - Percussion

Half of My Love/Life (2016)

Belt of Sympathies / Mini Opera Without Words for Large Ensemble

Premiered by Collegium Novum Zurich on 20th of September 2016, under the direction of Emilio Pomarico at Tonhalle Zurich.

1. Quasi rubato ma non tanto, lamento
2. Come un rituel / Tempo flessibile, molto espressivo
3. Attaca, without indication

Belt of Sympathies (2016)

Conducted by Isiah Shim and read by the Peabody Symphony Orchestra.

“There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” - Carl Jung

Entities - for Orchestra

Recording from May 18th, 2018.

Written for two alto saxophones, trombone, piano, percussion, and electric guitar.

A big thank you to my performers, Ana Kupstas, Kyle Jones, Sarah Manley, Hidemi Minagawa, Sandra Chang, and Sean McFarland.  Alongside my conductors, Hilo Carriel and Jisoo Kim. And my recording engineer, Anthony Staiti.

Sobering

Please, use headphones or good loudspeakers.

You crawl over seas of granite (2019–20), for amplified, detuned string quartet
commissioned by JACK Quartet, with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation

Live Recording, JACK Quartet, 16 January 2020, Berlin

You crawl over seas of granite (2019–20), for amplified, detuned string quartet

composer of conceptual-, performative-, and multimedia music

beach scene

dakota wayne

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