III. Ballenas australes y pingu?inos de Magallanes ("Southern right whales and Magellanic penguins")
This piece was commissioned by the Alexander String Quartet for the occasion of their thirtieth anniversary season, and is gratefully dedicated to them.
II. La tierra caliente que duerme ("The sleeping warm earth")
I. Las aguas del sur ("The southern sea")
Patagón is the ancient, archaic name for the land of Patagonia. My newer compositions increasingly link to nature and landscape, and this latest string quartet evokes the idea of the far away, the other-worldly, and the remote.
Sabinium (2006)
for two-channel electronic sounds, with video animation by Harvey Goldman .
whatWALL? (2003)
For alto saxophone and quadraphonic tape
Written for and dedicated to Brian Sacawa.
a thick band of gray, a line that elides the end of day into the beginning of night (2005)
For singer and Max/MSP (with SPAT and La Kitchen sensors)
Darsana I is an interactive work for a pianist playing the Yamaha Disklavier (a piano fitted with MIDI technology in its keys). I connect the Disklavier to a computer and program software to interact with a pianist. The pianist plays material which acts as triggers to the Disklavier, and causes it to respond with material I have worked out.
En círculo (2008) for alto saxophone, clarinet/bass clarinet, horn, trumpet, trombone, double bass, percussion, and piano
duration, 18'
excerpt performed by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
Listening to me practice the piano in this piece, my sister said, “I hear all sorts of natural sounds, things blowing, shaking, leaves rustling, waves rolling”.
la mar amarga (2007) for piano trio
music by Cindy Cox
Graeme Jennings, violin, Leighton Fong, cello, and Christopher Jones, piano
photo from Sensitive Chaos by Theodor Schenk (Rudolph Steiner Press, 1965)
