Lachrimae was written for Marilyn Nonken. The piece is a reaction to the Iraq war and a response to the 'Crosses of Lafayette'--a hillside in Lafayette, California that memorializes the lost American soldiers.

Lachrimae for solo piano (2006)

I wrote this piece for the fabulous Hinge Ensemble: Dan Van Hassel, guitar; Matt Sharrock, percussion; Philipp Staudlin, sax; Keith Kirchoff, piano.

Seven Sisters, Radiant Sisters

Written for the New Mexico Contemporary Ensemble

Sounds like if Bruckner wrote a New Orleans funeral dirge in the style of DuFay

Fauxbourdon after Ellington for Open Instrumentation (2022)

Through The Low Hills

Komorebi is the Japanese word for sunlight filtering through the trees. This piece was written for Winsor Music: Gabriela Diaz, Rane Moore, and Peggy Pearson

Komorebi

Recording of the Lake Tahoe Sonification Project installation at the Nelson Gallery, 2014.

Lake Tahoe Sonification Project(excerpt)

For flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello. Performed by the Empyrean Ensemble on May 20, 2018.

This piece is about "aural gazing", a short listen to a sonic object that twists and turns and rearranges itself. The music is self-propelled but without any intended direction. It's wandering music for lost souls.

All in a Gaze

Studio recording by Weiwei Le (violin), Tobias Roth (viola), and Andrew Smith (cello).

Evening Rainbow (2017) takes its title from the poem “The Evening Rainbow” by Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who passed away in 2017. The surface details of the work are meant to evoke some of the colorful visual imagery detailed in the poem, which deals with life and mortality, but much of the music is a transformation of some of the songs that were so important to the poet’s life and performances. Evening Rainbow was made possible through funding from the Nevada Arts Council for performance by UNLV string faculty members Weiwei Le (violin), Kate Hamilton (viola), and Andrew Smith (cello).

Nexus

Evening Rainbow

Evening Rainbow (2017) for string trio

Audio of World Premiere. Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, CA 7/27/18

Tyshawn Sorey: Everything Changes, Nothing Changes

at times, there isn't ground enough

Written for Yarn|Wire
Percussion: Ian Antonio and Russell Greenberg
Piano: Laura Barger and Ning Yu

Recorded: May 2019 at Stony Brook University

To accept the day.  What will come.
To pass through more streets than houses,
more people than streets.  To pass through
skin to the other side.  While I make
and unmake the day.  Your heart
sleeps with me.  It wraps me up at night
and the mornings are cold when I get up.
And I'm always asking where you are and why
the streets no longer are rivers.  At times
a drop of water falls to the ground
as if it were a tear.  At times
there isn't ground enough to soak it up.
---Rosa Alice Branco

at times, there isn't ground enough [2 pno, 2 perc]

Nebula Flow

Phil Acimovic is a composer in Easthampton, MA.

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All in a Gaze

Phil Acimovic

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