Recorded in Fall 2010 at Temple University.

Performers:
Piano - Irene Moretto
Voice - Nick Quintiliani

This is the first song in a cycle based on the poems of Wallace Stevens.The entire cycle is written for piano and tenor.The singer in this recording is more of a pop/show tune singer, though I intend to use a classically trained tenor to have the entire cycle recorded.


Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock

Recorded in Spring 2011 at Temple University.

Performers:
Piano - Dan Carunchio
Clarinet - Nichole Grooms
Violin - Kristine Yang
Cello - Natasha Jaffe

A piece written for piano, clarinet, violin and cello, the piece is meant to be a pseudo narrative, focusing on the concept of a person being new to an environment and trying to find comfort and joy in something distinctly foreign and uncomfortable.

Exploring New Worlds

This piece is an electronic, twelve-tone composition that I created.  The basic premiss of the piece was to first create a row that could be both hexachord combinatorial and tetrachord combinatorial in ways that would allow me to use all of the prime forms, retrogrades, inversions, and retrograde inversions of the row.  Once I had that row, I set out to create a piece that displayed all of the varying ways in which an aggregate can be created.  The end result, contrary to the more minimalist approach to twelve-tone music, is a three minute piece consisting of 91 aggregates.  I imagine the aggregate clusters, comically, as a beast that looms and eventually catches its pray, and I feel that this is portrayed in the music -- hence the title.

The Aggregator

This is the intro theme for a television pilot that I worked on. The show was supposed to be 

The Baxter Virus Theme

Recorded in October 2011 at Temple University

Performed by Kyle Press

Extensions is a solo piece for alto saxophone, an exploration in extended techniques.  The piece attempts to play on your expectation of the alto saxophone as a jazz instrument, giving glimmers of jazz-like, improvisational expression, only to have them interrupted again and again by sounds that one does not typically associate with the saxophone.

Extensions

Recorded in Spring 2012 at Temple University.

Performers:
Electric Guitar - Julian Mykytiuch
Glockenspiel - Matthew Bergey

This piece began as a project based on chance. As part of a concert entitled "Duos," each composer involved selected two instruments out of a hat and was then asked to write a duet for them.  I was handed guitar and glockenspiel.  Initially the piece was for classical guitar, but given time to revise, I later decided to rework the piece for electric guitar, and hope to experiment with electrically effected glockenspiel as well.

Bouts of Fervor

Recorded in Spring of 2012 at the Ethical Society of Philadelphia.

Performed by the Temple Composers Orchestra
Conducted by Adam Vidiksis

Galapagos came about initially as a part of a larger scale piece of music, drawing inspiration from those things in our world that are awe-striking – the sublimity of the cosmos, the amazing creations of man and the growth of technology, the complexity in even the smallest particles that make up life as we know it.  Galapagos draws its inspiration from the overwhelming variety we see in nature, and its title from probably the most notable example of this, the Galapagos Islands.

Matt Sullivan