"Five Daydreams" is a 52-minute set of five simple, structured improvisations by Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, created in four separate tracks on the Ionic Performer synthesizer in 1974, then overlain and spatially remixed.

Daydreams

Five Daydreams

"Teething Rings" has been performed many times, with criers and a babysitter. This is the first performance by the Dashuki Music Theatre in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1975.

Voices Past

Teething Rings

Electronic dance track from 1999 by Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, from the "Autonica" collection.

Autonica

bellyloops

"Llama Butler" for tuba and tape playback, with dancers and torches and costumes, by Dennis Bathory-Kitsz. Performed by Mark Nelson in 1993. The tape part is based on llamas mating in Colorado. Score here, with tape part available separately: http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/music/pdf/llamabutter.pdf

The Llamas

Llama Butter

Written for the 60x60 project, "iota" is a minute-long composition premiered by Daniel Mihai in Bucharest.

The New Century

iota

Part I of "A Time Machine" by Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, performed by the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, Jill Hallett Levis, voice. This long piece is for dancers and musicians, and uses a random menu-based set of choices for alternate odd-number sections (there are 33). Only 11 of the 33 sections have been performed to this day.

Score, notes, and full instructions: http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/music/pdf/a-time-machine-full.pdf

A Time Machine Part I

One of multiple heroic performances by Michael Arnowitt of "Rough Edges", a 1987 piano score on six staves, by Dennis Bathory-Kitsz. Almost a half-hour of nonstop high minimalism with 12-tone themes.

Pianostrils

Rough Edges

Variations on Justin Morgan's "Amanda" for chamber ensemble by Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, "An O'er Flowing Stream" had its only performance in 1989 on Braintree  Hill in Vermont, where Morgan was often found teaching, singing, tanning, and breeding the famous Morgan  Horse. The musicians played violin, two celli, and harpsichord.

Chamber Bowling

An O’er Flowing Stream - Variations on Justin Morgan’s “Amanda”

"Beepers" is a 1986 cabaret by Dennis Bathory-Kitsz (written under the pseudonym "Brady Kynans") about a love triangle in the computer world of the day, full of puns as well as warnings. Starring Andrée Frazier, Gayle Hanson, and Stuart Duke, with Deborah Chaffee on piano and David Gunn on drums. Performed at The Garage in Montpelier, Vermont.

The video of this performance is on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40X4A_JKdFY

The score of the cabaret is here on the composer's website:
http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/music/pdf/beepers-inked.pdf

Beepers: A Computer Cabaret (1986)

An electroacoustic piece from 2003 based on skateboard sounds. Originally appeared on a Japanese CD release. Best with headphones.

Elecentury

iskajtbrz

Commissioned from Dennis Bathory-Kitsz for the "We Are All Mozart" project, "O Vox Pop" was composed as a tricky duet entertainment -- which it is! Steven Klimowski (bass clarinet) and Rachael Elliott (bassoon) of the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble play.

We Are All Mozart

O Vox Pop

"Tirkíinistrá: 25 Landscape Preludes" was composed by Dennis Bathory-Kitsz in 2002. It has been performed in part by numerous artists, but only once in its full, hour-long version, in Maine by Jesse Feinberg in 2014. 

The preludes are derived from images, each one presented in the score, along with a graph of dynamic changes also derived from the images. The thematic material is also cross-influenced by the music of the semi-homonym sound of the collection's title. Overall, it is a hypnotic, ever-changing sonic landscape.

The full score is here: http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/music/pdf/tirkiinistra.pdf

Tirkíinistrá

"Moving to Lullaby" was composed for the "We Are All Mozart" project in 2007. Commissioned and set aside, it was vividly brought to life by Wes Flinn in September 2023. It has standard trombone playing as well as special effects with the voice, and as played by Wes is a glorious and resonant performance.

Moving to Lullaby

I am a composer, author, editor, teacher, and technologist. My work engages the advancement of arts and technology from both humanist and experimental perspectives. I am available for commissions, master classes, writing & editing, teaching & presentations, seminars & performances, and music digital engraving.

The scores for all the notated music you hear here can be downloaded and, one hopes, performed at your leisure:
http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/biglist.html

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