Recorded on Keyscape's Hohner Pianet T, in Harry Partch's 29-tone scale, most known for its use on his Adapted Viola. 

Dedicated to Erik Satie's Thursday Suit.

Dream of Dreams (2021)

Hermitage (2018) for Pierrot Ensemble

Electroacoustic piece for prerecorded voice, prerecorded piano and electronics

Text by Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

Caitlin Glastonbury, vocals
Nick Fagnilli, piano, electronics

Realized at the Electroacoustic studios at Ithaca College, Peter Rothbart, director

Sea Shell (2018)

Score to the short film by Sam Hayden

Created using Virus TI synthesizer, Alchemy Software synthesizer, Logic Pro X and Digital Performer

Ruin (2016)

Serial etude for solo clarinet

Performed by Emily Mehigh

Out Walked Monk (2018) for solo clarinet

Recorded April 2017 by Sam Stein, Claeb Matheson, and BMO Olivier at Nabenhauer Recital Hall, Ithaca College

Remixed December 2019 by Nick Fagnilli

Flute: Hannah Morris
Clarinet: Madeline DeNofio
Oboe: Stefanie Nicou
Violin I: Henry Scott Smith
Violin II: Taylor Payne
Cello: Malachi Brown
Bass: Tom Brody
Percussion: Dan Syvret, Lilian Fu
Piano: Jake O'Connor
Piano, Celesta, Harpsichord, conductor: Nick Fagnilli

Music written for the film "Ovid" by Last Minute Film Makers

Ovid Suite (2017)

Nick Fagnilli: Korg Minilogue Synthesizer
Amy Zuidema: Bass Clarinet
Brendan Kennelty: Percussion
Nic Mathisen: Bass

Thaw (Live at Ford Hall, Ithaca College, November 2019)

text compiled from The Daily Show interview with Edward Snowden (9/2019) and the Tao Te Ching.

Synthesizer, conductor: Nick Fagnilli
Percussion: Brendan Kennelty
Bass Clarinet: Amy Zuidema
Bass: Nic Mathisen

Recorded by Nick Fagnilli and Connor Moses

Whistleblower (Live at Ford Hall, Ithaca College, November 2019)

Zoe Sorrell, flute
Tape preparations by Nick Fagnilli
Mixed and mastered by Nick Fagnilli

Recorded May 17, 2020 in Zoe's home for her lecture-recital, "How to Give a World Premiere." For Zoe, playing with tape was an exciting venture that reminded her that technological literacy is required for so much of our lives in these times. Equitable access to the Internet is vital for the survival of all communities, let alone our new music community. 

Zoe's forward-thinking interpretation of the elements of this piece stands in contrast to my thinking with regards to writing it. My goal for the electronics was to limit the techniques I had available to manipulate the synthesized sounds to an equivalent of tape machines that would have been used by Pierre Schaeffer or Luciano Berio. 

Zoe also rejected the "Edenic" themes of the poem from which this piece takes its title, William Blake's Book of Thel. I agree that Blake's Innocence and Experience paradigm is not a good way to view life, and that is why I gravitated to the Cloud's attitude that when he passes, life continues. The Tender Cloud knows he is part of a larger process and is happy to have contributed to the circle of life. 

As always, thank you for listening.

Ask The Tender Cloud (2020)

for Hypercube
by arrangement of Charlotte New Music

Erin Rogers- tenor saxophone
Jay Sorce- electric guitar
Andrea Lodge- piano
Chris Graham- percussion

Change From Changing (2020)

Less music theory, more music conspiracy theory

Nick Fagnilli

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