Selected Compositions

Large Ensembles

1998

• Histories - for symphony orchestra. Doctoral dissertation in three movements. 14-17 minutes.

1996

• Intersymmetries - for wind ensemble. 7 minutes.
• Transformations for Orchestra - one movement for chamber orchestra. Won first prize in the University of Minnesota’s Campus Orchestra Competition 1996. Performed by the school orchestra Fall 1997. 7-8 minutes.

Chamber Music

1998

• The Clinging Fire - commissioned by the Downbeat Award winning saxophone quartet Saxmania. Three movements “Gathering,” “The Gentle,” “Deliverance.” 14 minutes.

1997

• Four Views of the Secret Work - for organ and electric bass. Four movements. 13 minutes.
• Ostinatos - for flute, clarinet, violin, bass, and harp. A work in three movements, “Second Sight,” “Dream,” and “Cryptomnesia.” 15 minutes.

1996

• Murder Mystery - for solo violin. Four short movements, “Tempest in a Teapot,” “Spinning,” “Precipice: Waves,” and “Coastal Highway - Convertible.” 12 minutes.

1995

• Trio for Violin, ‘Cello, and Piano - in three movements. 15 minutes.

Electroacoustic Media

2003

• The Unity of Energy – for flute, digital video, and computer. 15 min.

2002

• On the Subject of Sex – music and audio for Lucy Petrovich’s film contains music and incidental sound based on the voice over track of the film. 5.5 minutes.
• Sewing, Stirring, and Walking – a collage of 6 movements made entirely of sounds recorded at the University of Kansas’s Art and Design Department. Opening; Sewing Stirring, and Walking; Loom Groove; Fire and Water; Drawing Room with Machines; and Closing. 7 minutes.

2001

• Tenebraglus – for Flute, Cello, Piano, and Computer generated audio. 5 minutes.
• 2000
• Into the Red Spectrum - electro-acoustic composition commissioned by choreographer Nina Janik. 10 minutes.
• Journeys1900/2000: an interactive installation by Carol Flax - composed the music and all audio cues for this interactive video/audio/photography installation.
• Meditation on ‘Necrophilic Spring Flowing from a Grand Piano’ by Salvador Dali - for tenor saxophone and digital audio playback. Commissioned by Mike L. Keepe. 9 minutes.

1999

• Numerolalia - for eight performers using MIDI controllers and samplers. Commissioned by Norm Weinberg and the University of Arizona Electronic Percussion Ensemble. Premiered at the PASIC conference in the fall of 1999. 8 minutes.
• An Awesome Silent Fire - a text based work using computer and digital audio techniques written in collaboration with Daniel Asia at the University of Arizona. 6 minutes.
• Like Smoke Towards Heaven - a text based work using computer and digital audio techniques written in collaboration with Daniel Asia at the University of Arizona. 7.5 minutes.
• Cry - a work based on the single word “cry” using computer and digital audio techniques written in collaboration with Daniel Asia at the University of Arizona. 3.5 minutes.
• Mercury: I/ Cipher (The Message Sent); II. Burnished Fire (The Message Heard); III. The Mad Hatters (The Final Message) - a three movement work using computer and digital audio techniques written in collaboration with Daniel Asia at the University of Arizona. 15 minutes.

1998

• Diffractions - for guitar and tape. 6 minutes.
• Chromium: I. Tripartite; II. Dances; III. Quicksilver- a three movement work using MIDI technologies written in collaboration with Daniel Asia at the University of Arizona. 13 minutes.

1997

• Transparencies - intended for live performance by trumpet, bass clarinet, two percussionists, and two synthesists. 6 minutes.

Songs & Cycles

2000

• Not Heat - for high voice and piano. Commissioned by Lana VanBoven. On a text by Walt Whitman. 4 minutes.

1995

• Four Sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay - a setting of four poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay for soprano voice and piano. 18 minutes.

Choral Music

1994

• Psalm 103 - SATB and organ. 7 minutes.
• Moon Over China Lake - Jazz choir and rhythm section. For Jim Heiner and the Las Positas College Vocal Jazz Ensemble. 6 minutes.

Music for Dance

2000

• In the Red Spectrum - electro-acoustic composition commissioned by choreographer Nina Janik. 10 minutes.

Big Band/Jazz Combo

1993

• Fullcircle - 18-piece Big Band work for Dave Eshelman and the CSUH Jazz Ensemble. 8 minutes.