Name: this body folds in on itself (live, reading) by Isaac Barzso
Duration: 8 min
Description: Recording of a reading session by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, October 2024. Photo by James May (https://jamesmaycomposer.com/).

Recording of a reading session by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, October 2024. Photo by James May (https://jamesmaycomposer.com/).

this body folds in on itself (live, reading)

a vapor (no body, no image)
for baritone voice & orchestra
2025

written for the Tectonics Festival, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov, and Ty Bouque

www.timothy-mccormack.com/a-vapor-no-body-no-image

a vapor (no body, no image) - excerpt

writing this piece coincided with a moment in my life where waiting has been the sole intention of my everyday.
I haven't seen my parents for a very long time due to the political climate and have reached a surreal point in my life i which my every day is filled with waiting. the waiting has brought a sense of immobility and stuckness accompanied with anger.
this waiting no longer contains a peaceful negative space but a sense of overflowing emotions with numbness.

premiered by SMASH duo at Gaudeamus festival, 2025
                                    
         


10 am is when you come to me

live recording 
Oct. 11, 2025
Tenri Institute
New York, NY

Chimeric Form [2023]
I. 77 mögliche Hauptmotive
II. TOR[S]-
III. "little tail"
*. appendix of deleted material

Wet Ink Ensemble
Laura Weiner, horn
Josh Modney, violin
Eric Wubbels, piano

Chimeric Form [2023] (live, Wet Ink Ensemble)

First performance -- 1 November 2025

Ekmeles + Mivos Quartet. DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York, NY

O Maria (2024-25) for six voices and string quartet

Michigan State University Wind Symphony - Michael Gabriel, conductor

Some of my earliest memories are of intricate boxes. My father, a furniture maker, often restores antique pieces, and I remember being fascinated by wardrobes and desks that had secret drawers and spaces. These are often only accessible by putting one’s hands in the right spot with the right pressure, a type of haptic code. In writing Puzzle Box, I wanted to create a work that pays homage to these beautifully compact pieces, where one has to explore around an object and test it in various ways until a hidden passageway opens. Puzzle Box was written for the Cabrillo Festival as part of the 2024 Conductors / Composers Workshop and is dedicated to my father. The wind band arrangement of Puzzle Box was commissioned by Kevin Sedatole, Michael Gabriel, and the Michigan State University Wind Symphony.

Puzzle Box (2024-5) for wind symphony

January 12th, 2018

https://www.singularityquartet.com/

For Elina

18.09.06 | Gaudeamus Muziekweek | Utrecht, Netherlands
Quatuor Bozzini, Dudok Kwartet, and Quatuor Alcea

The Innocence of Trees

for ensemble and electronic sounds. 

the 4 movements are dedicated to Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, Eric Dolphy, and Miles Davis.


Performed live for Tuesdays at Monk Space. 

gnarwhallaby:
Brian Walsh- clarinets
Matt Barbier- trombones
Derek Stein- cello
Richard Valitutto- piano

Richard Barrett- Tkiva

piece for e-guitar, accordion and electronics
Duo Promenade Sauvage. 
e-guitar: Maarten Stragier 
accordion: Luca Piovesan
http://www.promenadesauvage.com
2019

plastic pain perception

DRIFT MATTER [2013]
for solo cello
Séverine Ballon [www.severineballon.com]

Two videos of Séverine Ballon performing this piece here: 
--- www.vimeo.com/68913225 
--- www.vimeo.com/85291701 

More info here: www.timothy-mccormack.com/driftmatter

DRIFT MATTER [2013]

phd fellow in multimedia composition @ brown university
mm royal conservatory of the hague '23

this body folds in on itself (live, reading)

Isaac Barzso

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