This song for mezzo-soprano, horn, cello, 2 percussionists, and piano is an exotic, dark, and sensual take on the famous late-18th Century poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan". The title comes from an optional subtitle to the poem.

A Vision In A Dream. A Fragment.

Crystal of Pain

(2014) - "Universal Unconsciousness: a free-jazz acid trip through hell" is a piece for chamber orchestra that satirizes the free jazz, funk, and meditation music of the early 70s by being dark, cool, campy, ridiculous, and a little rough around the edges.

Performed by Alarm Will Sound

Universal Unconsciousness

Fun class project I made in Reason. This track is like if a slasher film from the 80s was set in a nightclub.

80s Hell

A musical response to Walt Whitman's poem "When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd", commissioned for the Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra's 2014-2015 season.

"... I give you my sprig of lilac"

String Quartet No. 1
I. Obsessions and Compulsions
II. Shame
III. Bulerías Demonio

Performed on Pendulum New Music's Oct. 2014 concert. Lauren Pokorzynski, violin; Marisa Ishikawa, violin; Aleksa Kuzma, viola; Cecelia Swanson, cello. 

String Quartet No.1

A completely re-imagined soundtrack to the Florence + The Machine music video for "St. Jude"

St. Jude

Soundtrack to Ren Coker's thesis film at California College of the Arts. Original music incorporated with the sound design from original film by Ren Coker. Samples (manipulated) from "Come Rain or Come Shine" by Sarah Vaughan and "Spem In Alium" by Thomas Tallis.

Ren's Movie (full soundtrack)

First movement from String Quartet No.1. "Obsessions and Compulsions" is obsessively organized and unsuccessfully tries through various means to break away from an obsessive thought - culminating in a full-blown panic attack.

String Quartet No.1 - I. Obsessions and Compulsions

4th and final movement from my saxophone quartet, Zeitgeist 2012. Performed by Anemoi Saxophone Quartet.

Zeitgeist 2012 - IV. All my ghosts

Composer, Saxophonist, and Pianist from Kansas City, Missouri. BA in Music from University of Missouri-Columbia, 2012. MM in Music Composition from University of Colorado-Boulder, 2015.

Daniel Cox - Composer