released as part of the Ebola Chapbook to benefit Doctors Without Borders in 2014

violin - Hrabba Atladottir
viola - Ellen Ruth Rose
cello - Leighton Fong

Hemorrhage for String Trio (2014)

SHELTER (2014)

a live performance in Kansas City, MO by the wonderful newEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble

From Nothing . . . (2012)

Ostrava Days 2017

narratio (2017)

Live performance of Tacit at Permutions in San Francisco by andPlay

Tacit (2017)

recorded live at Kostel sv. Vavrince, Prague, Czech Republic March 14th, 2019.

performed by Ondrej Martinovsky (viola)

Trajectories

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KUBA (2015) for tenor saxophone and implanted speaker. Commissioned by James Fusik and premiered at the World Saxophone Congress. Performed by Michael Jermář at the studios at HAMU (Academy of Performing Arts, Prague).

KUBA (2015)

premiere performance - November 21, 2019, Prague CZ

David Danel - violin
Ondrej Martinovsky - viola
Stepan Drtina - cello

Directives, as the title indicates, is a series of instructions given to the performers individually and as a group. These instructions are open in certain aspects implying a hierarchy of the directives that the performers must navigate both individually and as a cohesive whole. Ultimately, the directives of the composer and directives implied by the audience are superseded by the inherent situation itself.

Directives (2019)

after spending a year living in Prague, I returned to the US and found myself separated from dear friends, collaborators, supporters and a city that I love

in Prague I certainly felt like a part of the community, but also it was a place where I was alone - with only me

I was honored that one of my favorite humans, David Danel, approached me to write for this program to be presented in a festival highlighting the spiritual and transcendent

I have never considered myself the most spiritual person but I have a great respect and curiosity and view these things as uniquely human experiences (both shared and individual)

the creation of the piece happened during the quarantine of the CoVid-19 pandemic

in isolation, the work coalesced around the dichotomies of unity/totality, all/one, tutti/solo, etc. . . 

Google translate from Czech to English, with it’s robotic - although human(ly) created - inaccuracies told me:

	pouze - only
	vše - all
	všepouze - omnipotent
	pouzevše - used
	všepouzevše - omnipresent

But as the piece came together, police brutality and the protests in opposition, began to dominate the daily narrative

The titular words and their translations received a new context regardless of authenticity or accuracy

and with the premiere and further performances, the work and the events surrounding it’s genesis will be re(de)contextualized together, with the audience, and independently

ரவி (8 June 2020)

Performed by David Danel. Recorded at SONO Recording Studios CZ June 2023. Mixed by Jake Kelly.

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