Ekmeles.

Live, Crypt of the Church of the Intercession (New York, NY), 10 May 2019.

If a madrigal is an unaccompanied chamber-scale vocal work, intimate, reliant on knife-edge unanimity of purpose and gesture, dedicated to the illustration and evocation of a poetic text, then vo mesurando is a madrigal.  The Petrarch sonnet which lends detached phrases of its text, “Solo e pensoso,” describes an incommunicable state of inner torment, a compulsive evasion of connection and communication with humankind, and a denial of the possibilities of vocal eloquence—and so it is here.  The material and energies of the work are private, quite often simply inaudible, and aimed if they are audible at a space as close to the singers as possible.  The gently aggressive regularity of the gridded form; the fragmentary repetitions, sequences, and canons; the emergent shards of syllables and glimpsed phrases; these are all madrigalian figures that you are overhearing, but they are not for you.

vo mesurando (2012) for four high voices

live performance with percussion quartet, electronics, and video. all electronics derived from sonification of the installation file for Windows 98.

performed by Maria de la Calle, João Borralho, Ludovica Ballerina, and João Brito as part of KonStruct.23, December 8, 2022 (https://www.slagwerkdenhaag.nl/nl/producties/konstruct23). recorded by Gregor Connelly and Adam Roček, mixed by Gregor Connelly.

Untitled.exe (live, audio only) || KonStruct.23

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

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

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Isaac Barzso