Serial Connection Failed — 2024
Made in collaboration with Bianca Quigley. Composition for 4 microtonal stepper motors. Part of the 2024 Peabody Composition–Computer Music collaboration.
Hell According to the Fingerless Machine — 2024
Ambisonic fixed media. A collage of hell made almost exclusively with AI-generated samples and “riffs” using riffusion.com, divided by three short segments of dissonant tech metal riffs from an earlier iteration of the project.
Claire O’Brocta Senior TIMARA Recital — 2023
Mixed media, made in collaboration with Claire O’Brocta. Based on themes and motifs written by Claire, I arranged and composed the music for the recital. This included a solo piano intro, a short video game-style soundtrack, and a “Battle of the Bands” piece featuring playback alternating with a live band (2 violins/guitar/bass/synth/drums).
Non ti aspetterò — 2022
For soprano, alto, Moog Sub 37, and cello. Contemporary vocal chamber composition written for Kendra Colton’s APST 800 Chamber Music class at Oberlin in Spring 2022.
Meandering Music / feel — 2022
For processed vocals, baritone saxophone, viola, percussion, Moog Sub 37, and electric guitar. Half graphic score, half solo spoken word.
The Death of the Monkey — 2021-2022
For 2 vocalists, flute+alto flute, alto+baritone saxophones, viola, cello, percussion, 3 electric guitars, electric piano+Moog Sub 37, bass guitar, and drums, and found objects.
Apocalyptic Meditations — 2020-2022
For baritone saxophone, vibraphone+percussion, 2 electric guitars, electric piano+Moog Sub 37, bass guitar, and drums. Technically a serial piece based around the 0156 tetrachord.
Midnight Depression: Remixed and Revisited (Halloween Computer Screen) — 2021
Stereo fixed media. Plunderphonics-style piece using material exclusively from my 2018 album Midnight Depression.
Color Shift — 2021
For amplified bassoon and live electronics.
The Dusk of Eternity Unfolds — 2021
For electric guitar, Moog+Prophet synthesizers, and electronic percussion+processed vocals. Structured improvisational piece with the instrumental score consisting of the text of the vocal section in the middle of the piece.
The Forest / The Ocean / The Shore — 2020-2021
Stereo fixed media. Musique concrète piece formed from a variety of field recordings and recording sessions done largely in Fall 2020 (contributions from Nick Politi, Hamish Robb, Michael Gaspari, and Claire O’Brocta).
Giant Funerals and Neutron Stars — 2020
Stereo fixed media. Electroacoustic process work focused on the dichotomy between organization and chaos.
Dark Room, Pt. 1: Detachment — 2019-2020
Stereo fixed media. Musique concrète piece based on a May 2019 audio recording in the Oberlin Art Complex dark room.
Fugue No. 2 for Organ (Lamento) — 2019
Fugue in A Minor composed for organ inspired by the counterpoint of J.S. Bach.
Fugue No. 1 for Four Synthesizers (Fantasia) — 2019
Fugue in F Major composed for four synthesizers inspired by the counterpoint of J.S. Bach.
Between Here and There — 2018
Stereo fixed media.
The Birds Are Screaming — 2018
Stereo fixed media.