Scott Wollschleger, piano
Kevin Sims, vibes 
@3kevindsims3

Christian Wolff - Microexercise no. 8

American Dream
music by Scott Wollschleger
performed by Bearthoven (Karl Larson, piano; Pat Swoboda, double bass; and Matt Evans, percussion)

From Scott Wollschleger's second album, American Dream, released on Cantaloupe Music:
https://cantaloupemusic.com/albums/american-dream

American Dream (measures 219-392)

Aired: June 25, 2024
Contemporary Classics WRUU​ 107.5 Savannah:​ In-depth conversation with David Lake on the album BETWEEN BREATH 
https://scottwollschleger.com/discography/between-breath/
https://www.wruu.org/broadcasts/51592/#play

Contemporary Classics 

Scott Wollschleger: BETWEEN BREATH on Contemporary Classics

Music composed by Scott Wollschleger. Kevin Sims @3kevindsims3, vibraphone. Scott Wollschleger, piano. Recorded January 11, 2025 Aaronsburg, Pennsylvania 

https://kevinsimsmusic.com
https://scottwollschleger.com

Erasmus Street

Music composed by Scott Wollschleger. Kevin Sims @3kevindsims3, vibraphone. Scott Wollschleger, piano. Recorded January 11, 2025 Aaronsburg, Pennsylvania

kevinsimsmusic.com
scottwollschleger.com

Church Service

Other Arts Ensemble:
Gabe Newvine, flute
Sammy Hallacher, alto sax
Sam Escourt, cello
Violet Burney, harp
Gabe Gekoskie, trumpet
Zac McKee, violin
Nalah Palmer, violin
Clayton Trumbull, viola
Negar Gharibi, kamanche
Brendan Locke, trumpet
Jack Roberts, guitar
Zack Aneckstein, piano
Kevin Sims, vibraphone

https://scottwollschleger.com/work/partial-memories-2/

Partial Memories

Between Breath
music composed by Scott Wollschleger 
William Lang, trombone
Anne Rainwater, piano

From the album BETWEEN BREATH released on New Focus Recording (2024)
https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/between-breath
https://scottwollschleger.com


BetweenBreath

Karl Larson, piano with The String Orchestra of Brooklyn conducted by Eli Spindel

Recorded live Thursday, June 25, 2015
Roulette; Brooklyn, New York

www.thesob.org
www.karllarsonpiano.com



MEDITATION ON DUST

Cory Bracken, Robby Bowen - vibes
Karl Larson, Hitomi Honda - pianos

Recorded live 2.12.16
The Firehouse Space
Brooklyn New York, USA

http://www.corybracken.com
http://www.hitomihonda.com
http://karllarsonpiano.com

THE HEART IS NO PLACE FOR WAR

New Thread Quartet
Recorded live, December 3, 2016
The Firehouse Space, Brooklyn, New York

WITHOUT WORLD (complete)

In Search of Lost Color
Karl Larson, piano
recorded live 11.20.17
Spectrum
Brooklyn, New York

@karl-larson-3
karllarsonpiano.com

In Search Of Lost Color (live)

Tiny Oblivion
Karl Larson, piano
recorded live 11.20.17
Spectrum
Brooklyn, New York

@karl-larson-3
karllarsonpiano.com

Tiny Oblivion

Recorded live:

University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music
Watson Hall
Sunday, September 16, 2018

Geoffrey Landman​/saxophone
Osnat Netzer/piano

That Which Pushes Back Is Its Force

This is the downloadable "tape part" to OUR SENSE OF THE REAL PART IV for any number of instruments and fixed media. Please visit https://scottwollschleger.com to download the score. Customized versions for specific instrumentations are available upon request. Write to me at scott(dot)wollschleger(at)gmail(dot)com.

PROGRAM NOTE:
This piece came to me in a dream. I dreamt that all of New York City woke up one morning to see on their news feeds and social media that a nuclear war had started and that the bombs were on their way to the city. In a shared moment of dread the people of the city let out a collective groan. The memory of this groaning sound haunted me for days and the only way to purge the sound from my soul was to compose this piece. The collective groan, which I called “The People’s Cluster”, is realized in sound as an 8-note microtonal cluster chord that is played by 8 pre-recorded violas. The People’s Cluster is interspersed between various field recordings taken from four different peaceful places I’ve come to call home; Brooklyn, New York; Erie and Aaronsburg, Pennsylvania; and Lake Walloon, Michigan. I made these recordings during the summer of 2017. The recordings capture various aspect of daily life: a walk through Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, families celebrating the 4th of July around a lake, distant church bells and trucks zooming by in the morning, the sound of me making chicken wings with my father. The field recordings and The People's Cluster create a kind of call-and-response pattern. The live instrument(s) always participate in the The People’s Cluster. The cluster returns often and becomes more strange, haunting, enigmatic, and I'd say, even beautiful, with each repetition. The call-response pattern is eventually interrupted with an actual recording of an atomic bomb. The recording used here is from the Castle Bravo nuclear tests conducted in 1954. The fallout from these tests is still with us today. A thin layer of radioactive material will remain on the earth’s surface for tens of thousands of years. OUR SENSE OF THE REAL PART IV is an attempt to aestheticize the fears we face as we enter our newly-minted, human-made, geological epoch; the Anthropocene. In being just a mere work of sound art, I hope this piece can be seen as a safe way for us to explore our darker impulses and that it causes reflection on what the future has in store for us. Perhaps it will contribute to our efforts to change the situation. Despite the dark tone of the piece, the work’s message is hopeful: We don’t have to blow ourselves up! OUR SENSE OF THE REAL is series of conceptual works originally created by percussionist Kevin Sims. Thank you Kevin Sims for letting me be part of the series.

OUR SENSE OF THE REAL PART IV was commissioned by Noam Faingold for the 2018 OK Electric Festival, Living Arts of Tulsa, with support from John Evans and the Oklahoma Arts Council. Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti gave the first performance March 30, 2018 at Living Arts of Tulsa

OUR SENSE OF THE REAL PART IV

Blue Inscription

Lyric-Fragment
Ivan Ilić, piano
World premiere, live;
October 12, 2019
Bargemusic 
Brooklyn, New York

Lyric Fragment

Chaos Analog

Lost Anthems 
November 28, 2019
The 20/19 Project: Made in Transition, Part 2
at the Turner Contemporary
Margate
England
Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti, viola 
Zeynep Özsuca, piano

Sheet music can be purchased here:
https://www.eamdc.com/psny/composers/scott-wollschleger/works/lost-anthems/

LOST ANTHEMS_excerpt_2

Max Zuckerman guitar (from over at https://soundcloud.com/bluejazztv) with Emily Bookwalter viola.
Thank you both for making this recording and thank you https://soundcloud.com/adrian-knight for being our engineer. 


Viola and Guitar no.1

Excerpt from:
OUTSIDE ONLY SOUND 
The String Orchestra of Brooklyn
Fort Greene Park
Brooklyn, NY
October, 17, 2020

Complete performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPzrgbAA--w&t=574s

Scott Wollschleger

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