Compositions


Panthalassa

2011; conceptual score

Prose score for voice, composed for and executed by vocalist Kristin Hayter.

Presented in Quiver 1 for Radius.

Fallen (Padded)

2011; for pump organ, flute, melodica, and muttering

Trio with Becky Grajeda and Peter Weathers, composed as part of 7,308.23 kilometers = 4,541.123 miles, a collaborative exhibition between artists at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Curated by Becky Grajeda.

Harrow/Dormant

2011; graphic score composition

Graphic score composition for any solo instrument, especially suitable for pneumatic instruments, voice, or bowed strings.

Previously performed in various stages by experimental guitarist Julia Miller as part of the Articular Facet series, and by Jeff Gburek and Karolina Ossowka as part of Quiver 1 for Radius.

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Kilter

2010; for trombone, accordion, and sound installation playback

Composition for trombonist Jeb Bishop, accordion, and 2-channel sound installation playback (resonating toolbox and cabinet).

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2010; collaborative site-specific composition

Sound composition for objects, drum, accordion, music box, and voice. Composed in collaboration with Joseph Clayton Mills and performed as a trio with vocalist Carol Genetti.

View drawing by Dominique Holmes

Objects: music box, tin cup, tin box, pan, funnel, horn/reed, wood board, metal tube, drawer, bowling ball, paper, bell, gas tank, brushes, tuning forks, stone mortar, screws, sand, pine cones, acorns, and others.

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Uphold Means

2010; sound installation

8-as-4-channel sound installation studying thresholds/redundancy of equalization in relation to filtering objects. The eight speakers are wrapped in foam and padding and contained inside vintage furniture. 10-minute loops quietly sound breathing/thumping fire bellows and wringing cardboard.

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Installed at Pilsen Vintage & Thrift in Chicago as part of Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain (curated by Jessica Turcios), a site-specific group exhibition that “excavates and draws upon the latent possibilities found in the mountains of discarded materials”; special thanks to Paul Guizar & Joseph Kramer!

Cloud Over Land

2009; text/sound composition

Site-specific text/environment composition featuring Meredith Zielke (voice).

 Recited at various windy locations in County Clare, Ireland; and as a live performance with Ian Hatcher (voice) and Joseph Kramer (transmission/interference, accordion) at the Red Rover Reading Series, curated by Jen Karmin.

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Stamen’s Patch

2009; text/sound composition

Composition incorporating elements of text, recitation, objects, music, and sound design into the concept of a genealogical branch contemplating its sprig.

Featuring Ian Hatcher (voice), Jeff Gburek (guitar and electronics), Rebecca Bach (clarinet), Martin Taxt (tuba), and Eric Leonardson (field recording).

Presented in 5.1 surround sound at the Gene Siskel Film Center, and Millennium Park’s Pritzker Pavillion as part of Experimental Sound Studio‘s Edible Audible Picnic; as a live performance at the Red Rover Reading Series, curated by Jen Karmin; and excerpted at the 2010 Association Writers & Writing Programs Conference.

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Bric-à-Brac

2008-2009; text/sound composition for radio

Collaboration with Lisa Abbatomarco; hour-long sound piece for radio predominated by tangential text in the form of imaginary recipes, procedures, conversions, and translations. Originally broadcasted live from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago as part of Neighborhood Public Radio‘s programming for the 2008 Whitney Biennial.

Also presented at the 2008 Third Coast International Audio Festival, as a sound installation at the 2009 Megapolis Audio Art and Documentary Festival, and as a studio version broadcast at Seattle’s Hollow Earth Radio.

Semilla & Colmena

2008; text/sound composition

Text/sound composition about the birth/process of ideas; based on a sound piece by Jeff Gburek. Featuring the voices of Meredith Zielke and Anki Hannemann.

Available for streaming and downloading from Textsound Issue 7 and Vague Terrain 15: .microsound [Striated Space] compilation.

Ascensor

2006; electronic composition

Numbers-based composition in which two looping set of numbers assigned to pitches gradually ascend as they are transposed across the range of the synthesizer.

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To Obverse

2006; electronic composition

Text/sound composition based on a short poem written with a limited set of letters. These letters corresponded to pitches, which make up the melody of the composition.

Also previously performed as harmonium and accordion solo versions.