Portfolio Fall 2014
The Exchange (2014/2011)
The performance version of this piece was completed in 2011. Mark DeChiazza and I collaborated to create the film version below, completed in 2014.
The performance version of this piece was completed in 2011. Mark DeChiazza and I collaborated to create the film version below, completed in 2014.
Monobot (2013)
Monobot, for drum kit solo, is the newest in a series of “bot” percussion pieces. The others are quartets that obsess over passing notes around the ensemble and shifting grooves and feels, and the intense interaction between players necessary to pull the music off is as much a point of focus as the notes on the page. Monobot comes out of these priorities but asks what one player is capable of doing in that context, how ensemble writing might translate to solo performance, what you need to do as a performer and composer in order to create a kind of rhythmic counterpoint. Below is audio of Jason Treuting's premiere on the Princeton Sound Kitchen series in 2014.
Monobot, for drum kit solo, is the newest in a series of “bot” percussion pieces. The others are quartets that obsess over passing notes around the ensemble and shifting grooves and feels, and the intense interaction between players necessary to pull the music off is as much a point of focus as the notes on the page. Monobot comes out of these priorities but asks what one player is capable of doing in that context, how ensemble writing might translate to solo performance, what you need to do as a performer and composer in order to create a kind of rhythmic counterpoint. Below is audio of Jason Treuting's premiere on the Princeton Sound Kitchen series in 2014.
Electrobot (2012)
This piece, with video documentation and score below, detaches conventional, percussive keyboard technique from the typical sounds associated with it. Each key of a black-key pentatonic scale triggers a long sample with its own rhythmic profile. This performance is from the 2012 So Percussion Summer Institute, with visuals and staging by Mark DeChiazza.
This piece, with video documentation and score below, detaches conventional, percussive keyboard technique from the typical sounds associated with it. Each key of a black-key pentatonic scale triggers a long sample with its own rhythmic profile. This performance is from the 2012 So Percussion Summer Institute, with visuals and staging by Mark DeChiazza.
Future Sevens (ongoing)
This project is intended to be a platform for releasing new music, or as Dan Trueman put into my head, to celebrate the creation of new music. Here are four short associated tracks. I've embedded them below for reference, but please click here for the full effect.
This project is intended to be a platform for releasing new music, or as Dan Trueman put into my head, to celebrate the creation of new music. Here are four short associated tracks. I've embedded them below for reference, but please click here for the full effect.
Additional Material: Writing Portfolio
The .pdf below is a collection of writing in various genres, from prose to poetry to scholarship.
The .pdf below is a collection of writing in various genres, from prose to poetry to scholarship.