The "Shampoo Art Song" draws its text from the ingredients list of my everyday shampoo. It was an exercise in text setting, as well as creating momentum and drama through loosely structured nonsense. Premiere performance by vocalist Eddie Spear and pianist Hannah Mohr, 30 April 2022, Rosch Recital Hall.

Hydroxypropyltrimonium

Quilt of Feathers was written in the spring of 2023. The work explores a tapestry of colors and characters. An initial blur of independent bird calls and murmurs coalesces as various instruments join in with their song. Traveling through a variety of environments, the call is passed on and shaped as it journeys. Having grown substantially inn number, united in their song, they finally take off and fly into the horizon.

This audio is a mix of the opening of the work recorded by the CIM Orchestra under the direction of Jake Taniguchi, and a MIDI mockup.

Quilt of Feathers

Event Horizon, composed in Fall of 2019, is a work for Solo Organ which traces the life cycle of a star. It opens with a massive depiction of the big bang before following the growth of a star over millions of years and its eventual collapse into a black hole. This piece was performed in King Concert Hall of Fredonia, NY on a Schlicker Pipe Organ with assistance from Brandon Brinkerhoff, Ian Cody, and Sean Penzo.

Event Horizon

This piece, a short work for saxophone quartet, was written in Fall of 2018 for a Beginning Composition class. The piece features a minimalist and quasi- mechanical ostinato which underlies the melodic growth over the course of the piece. This, combined with the regularly shifting, asymmetrical meter, gives the effect of an industrial foundry hard at work. The piece was recorded at the end of summer, 2019 in Todd Hobin Studios with the help of Brett Hobin and Nathan Catell. The track was later mastered by Graham Wolfe.

The Foundry

Written for Clarinet quintet in January 2019

Electricity

You can learn to play this piece. FREE scores and parts, among other materials, are available online: kronosquartet.org/fifty-for-the-future

Composed by Susie Ibarra
© 2018 Kronos Arts Publishing
℗ 2019 Kronos Performing Arts Association
Commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Produced by Kronos Quartet and Reshena Liao
Recorded August 2019 at 25th Street Recording, Oakland, CA
Engineered by Zach Miley
Assistant engineer: Gabriel Shepard
Mixed by Zach Miley and David Harrington at Decibelle Recording, San Francisco, CA

Pulsation

Susie Ibarra - Pulsation

Waiting for You was written in the Spring of 2020 as a submission to a call for one minute scores hosted by Martina Jembrišak. I wrote the piece during the coronavirus pandemic as I found myself missing friends and family. The piece is dedicated to everyone who is in that same boat as a result of the lockdowns. Here's to seeing those people we're waiting for again soon.

The performer you are hearing is:
Martina Jembrišak - Accordion

Thank you for listening, I hope you enjoy.

Waiting For You

Librettist: Andrew Martin Smith
Composer: Mateo Wojtczack

Audio taken from performance on March 8, 2020 at the Fredonia Opera House (Fredonia, NY)

Performed by:
Kay Steele as Ari (a)
Zachary Bills as Ari (b)
Natalie Ehrensbeck as Skylar
Rory Buscaglia as Tig

Music Director: Danny Barna
Pianist: EunJoo Jeon
Director: Collin McCrea

Scene 1: libretto by Andrew Martin Smith,  music composed by Joseph Buck
Scene 2: libretto by Jamie Leigh Sampson, music composed by Mickie Wadsworth

<o>respawn_object_infinite</o>: Scene 3: Level 57, Attempt 92

Democracy Dies in Darkness for solo piano
Performed brilliantly by Erin Bennett Hibbard

For more info, please visit https://www.jenniferjolley.com/democracydies

Democracy Dies In Darkness

Event Horizon, composed in Fall of 2019, is a work for Solo Organ which traces the life cycle of a star. It opens with a massive depiction of the big bang before following the growth of a star over millions of years and its eventual collapse into a black hole. 

Performed by Alex Meszler as part of the 2020 Composing for Organ Seminar Series at Syracuse University
Recording and Audio Engineering by Kevin Muldoon and Brianna Cofield

This arrangement of K.K. Cruisin' from Nintendo's Animal Crossing video game series was performed by an amazing international group of musicians during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their incredible talent made this project so much fun to work on and even better to listen to. Special thanks to all those involved in the creation of this track!

Animal Crossing © Nintendo.