"scale" is a 4-channel fixed-media piece devised from recorded improvisations of graphic scores. (For this stereo version, headphones work best.)

ft. the sounds of:
Delaney Meyers Camille Vogley-Howes, violin
Nic Vigilante, viola
Aaron Wolff, cello
Aliya Ultan, cello, voice (ultus)
Christopher Labman, gamba, bass
Kelsey Burnham, flute
Jackson Studzinski, baroque bassoon (oinc) 
Charles Ryan, trumpet
Alexandra Smith, trombone
Louis Pino, percussion
Rachel Gibson, percussion (oinc)
Carson Fratus, percussion, voice (ultus)
Kat Mazur, voice (oinc)
Sanam Le'a Tiffany voice, saw, banjo
Tian Yoon Teh, voice 
Gabriel Hawes, electronics (nsmbl)
Ko Takasugi-Czernowin, electric guitar, found instruments (nsmbl)
Nick Stares, no-input, shakuhachi, found instruments (oinc)
Natty Baker-Salisbury, electronics, found instruments (oinc)
Josh Biggs, found instruments, voice, piano (nsmbl, oinc)

and the oberlin improvisation new music collective (oinc) ft.:
Artemis Octavio, electronics	
Andrew Dana, prepared piano
Ian English, prepared guitar
Noah Schiller, electric guitar
Jonathan Fenwick, violin
Sawyer Brooks, analog synth

scale (2017)

This piece for organ, string quintet, and percussion is an interpretation of Claudia Rynkowski’s painting. This interpretation demonstrates the two hands that hold on to the thread as a hopeful but teetering element of an artist’s comfortable compositional past which influences them, with the havoc below representing the uncomfortable surrounding artists’ crave of experimentation and innovation. The piece takes the idea of the continuous thread and does not let the artist fall, nor does it let it hang any longer but harmoniously mixes the elements of creative past and innovative future, therefore displaying that which makes all artists so original. 

Conducted by: Victor Cheng
Performed by:
 Tyler Versluis (organ) Jamie Godber (Violin I)Emily Bosenius (Violin II) Clara Nguyentran (Viola) Madeleine Smith (Cello) Chiara Culmone (Double Bass)Andrew Gordon Bell (Percussion I) Keshav Sharma-Jaitly (Percussion II) and Lian McMillan (Percussion III) 
at the Student Composer Concert No. 5 in Walter Hall in March 2018.

Composition Portfolio 2018

Hanging On By a Thread (Based on a Painting by Claudia Rynkowski)

Vocal cover of Debussy's Clair De Lune.

Performed with MaxMSP and MUGIC motion sensor controlling pitch and filtering.

Moonlight

This Is For The Dude Who's Way Better Than Me

"Had Enough", 2019.
Written and Performed by Carol Mak.
Mixed and Mastered by Aaron Tsang.

Had Enough (DEMO) - Carol Mak

send silence (2020) is the result of a collaborative effort featuring almost a hundred recordings of silence(s) sent by friends from around the world. The piece might also be approached as an elaborate (and undisciplined) performance of John Cage's silent piece.  

Please listen with headphones only - the binaural algorithm used to render the ambisonic spatialization will sound strange(r) through regular speakers.

Thank you:
Alex Goldberg, Anna Hotter, Augustin Martz, Bella Knemeyer, Ben Eppel, Camille Backman, Chris Robinson, Cindy Bell, Claire Röntsch, Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei, David Viljoen, Douglas Farrand, Emily Gammon, Emily Call, Emma Paul, Evan Deyak, Helen Raine, Ieva Blaževičiūtė, Jaidan Rumboll, Joe Eppel, John Eagle, Judy Jackson, Julie Kolevsohn, Kate Pinchuck, Katie Thomas, Kim Hinrichs, Luke Ducray, Luca Sacher, Lulu Badr, Max Law, Miles Friday, Miranda Moss, Mlondiwethu Dubuzane, Natalie Chester, Nick Stares, Nigel Patel, Nikki Pasqualini, Philip Kolevsohn, Rachel Horner, Ruth Eppel, Salsabeel Maryam Kahn, Sarah Biggs, Sascha Eppel, Sergio Cote, Shari Eppel, Shir Kehila, Simone Rademeyer, Sue Cooper, Sue Hodson, Terry Kahn, Thomas Cressy, Tian Yoon Teh, Tracy Visser, William Bolles-Beaven

Moonlight

Louis Pino

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