Performed in July 2017 by the Mother Falcon String Quartet. Completed December 2016 for the Golden Hornet String Quartet Smackdown.

Band Saw and Drill Press

Performed in March 2016 by Hear No Evil, (6,4) reptiles... is scored for all fifteen quartet combinations of flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, and cello. It consists of fifteen miniatures for each group, each about a different reptile.

(6,4) reptiles...

Premiered November 2018. 

Mason Miller - pipe organ 
Dr. Russell Podgorsek - seven-string electric guitar
Noah Simon - bass guitar

“Chili Dog Mountain” is based on three approximations of my dogs’ experiences of our road trip this summer, played attacca:

1. (Quarter note equals fifty) Snorting along will the three arrive, oystered: the manganese-speckled black sandstone, to moths a lamp.  
2. (Vivace) After a tuning of events, covered in shredded cheddar cheese, they barge along an olfactory river. Slivering, or silvering… 
3. (Plaintive) Heading the mountain, a gremlin by circumstances, would be they finally able to tell the seals the good news.

Chili Dog Mountain

Premiered April 2018. 

Austin Ali - trumpet, flugelhorn
Gilbert Garcia - bells, wind machine, and vibraslap
John Dawson - vibraphone
Noah Simon - piano

Boxers are dogs. They pant. Sharks are vacuum cleaners. Dogs are scared of them. 

I. Red Bean Bears
A movement about bears eating red beans and rice 

II. Rhesus Peanut Butter Cup
Mostly, I made ciphers out of the following Hornbostel-Sachs instrument classification system numbers: 
Trumpet: 423.233
Piano: 314.122-4-8
Xylophones: 111.212
Metallophones: 111.222
Real bells (vibration smallest at vertex): 111.242
For the ciphers I interpreted the numbers as scale degrees.

Pants With Boxers And Sharks

Mouse was premiered in March 2017 by Hear No Evil for the Golden Hornet 2nd Annual Student Composer Concert.

Mouse

Bumpass Hell

Honey Butter Chicken Biscuit is based on the "HBCB" cipher, the letter W, and the most delicious fast-food breakfast sandwich in existence. Enjoy! 

Honey Butter Chicken Biscuit was performed by the immensely talented F-Plus Ensemble, comprised of Kate Dreyfuss (violin), Andy Hudson (clarinet), and Josh Graham (percussion). Oh yeah, and yours truly, on rubber chicken...

Noah Claiborne Simon