Gorgeous! Compelling! Trumpets and voices optimized to tap the highest pitch of emotional fervor.

It's like Berio and Hildegard had a baby! Awesome!

Rapsodie (1999)

"O Fragile Human, Speak..." for 8 female voices and 3 trumpets. Commissioned by the Lorelei Ensemble (Beth Willer, director). Premiered May 23, 2014.

Recording by the Lorelei Ensemble, May 24, 2014 at Marsh Chapel, Boston University, Boston, MA.

Lorelei Ensemble:
Sonja Tengblad
Margot Rood
Emily Culler
Shari Wilson
Clare McNamara
Mary Gerbi
Stephanie Kacoyanis
Emily Marvosh

Trumpets:
Chris Belluscio
Jonah Kappraff
Paul Perfetti 

O Fragile Human, Speak...

This piece is in equal parts based on Birtwistle’s Triumph of Time and Hideo Iwasaki and Oron Catts’ art installation Biogenic Timestamp (http://www.aec.at/center/en/2013/07/26/biogenic-timestamp/), in which microchips are slowly being consumed by genetically engineered cyanobacteria. Both artworks reflect on the paradoxical ways in which we attempt to preserve, capture, or fight the flow of time, yet we cannot ultimately defeat its inexorable, ever-changing onward march. My piece uses spectral techniques and electronic processing mapped onto acoustic music to decay, distort and transform a sample of Birtwistle’s piece into something new.

Workshopped and performed by Cardiff University Contemporary Music Group, November 2014.

Timestamp

58 Sprüllinəƒ

excision no. 1 for solo percussion and live electronics
tina tallon

performed by sean dowgray, percussion

excision no. 1 (2015)

Sing Sweetly, Run Swiftly is a piece that deals with two types of music.  The first is nostalgic and still. The second is boisterous and ebullient and it stands as a contrast to the stillness of the first.  The piece, then, is about the interaction between these two types of music.  This piece was commissioned by the Lyra Society of Philadelphia.

Sing Sweetly, Run Swiftly

"Beacons" (2017) by Peter Van Zandt Lane.
Recording by Hodgson Wind Ensemble. Cynthia Johnston Turner, conductor.

Beacons

Rejoice, The Lord Is King 2018 (Darwall)

This is an improvisation between Ben Roidl-Ward, bassoon, and Mathew Arrellin, cello. No elements of the piece were planned beforehand.

Shimmer-Eddy-Churn-Seethe (2019)for bassoon and cello

I'm a composer/trumpeter/improviser/ of music that mostly fits into that hard-to-name genre of "contemporary classical" or "new music" or "I don't get it" or "that sounds weird". I'm also an Assistant Professor at East Carolina University, where I teach music theory/composition, and Director of the NC NewMusic Initiative. I have a wonderful wife, Lauren; an amazing son, Owen; and a splendiferous wiener dog, Toby.

O Fragile Human, Speak...

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