The Saturations series of pieces all focus on a very narrow “subject” and, similar to photography, saturates it with as much of the subject as possible. In Saturations III-A for example, I took a very short sample of a choir (singing an earlier piece of mine). The original sample was only a few seconds long, but through a number of software processes this complete work was made entirely from that original sample.
These pieces have been prorgrammed widely, including being featuring at the Society of Electro-Acoustic Music annual conference, International Computer Music Conferences, and at the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts.
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Kinesthesia: Music for String Quartet and Electronics.
Innova Records
This recording is made possible by the Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative fund, with commission support from the the Jerome Foundation, Meet the Composer, American Composers Forum, and the Southern Theater.
Sunder for orchestra (2,2,2,2; 4,3,3,1, hrp, piano, 3 perc, timp, strings), was written in 2004. It received its first reading at the 2004 Aspen Music Festival and School by the American Academy of Conductors Orchestra.
In 2005 it was selected for the prestigious Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute, where a revised version was presented.
The work is a study in dichotomy, putting in opposition texturally think and thin music. The thick textures progress through harmonic material at a blistering pace, while the thinner music drifts in a relatively static fashion. As the piece progresses the opposing forces overlap in an attempt to create a union. The battle for unity does not fully come to fruition until the end, when both forces align.
Tears of Eros for orchestra (2,2,2,2; 4,3,3,1, hrp, piano, 4 perc, strings), was written in 2003. It was read by the Peabody Symphony Orchestra, and later received the Macht Orchestra Prize. The title refers to the book of the same name by Georges Bataille, in which the history of eroticism is explored as it relates to art throughout history.
Duration: 15:07
Listen to the complete piece:
Peabody Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Erin Freeman, 2003 in honor of this piece winning the 2003 Macht Orchestra Prize.
This piece was written about extensively by Gregory Hall in the 2008 issue of CRS (Contemporary Scores Review) journal.
Excerpt:
“After initial orchestral flourishes utilizing skillfully and colorfully orchestrated modal clusters the texture contracts into a slow dirge for strings, building to a climax where wind textures become a modal blur creating large standing yet coruscating modal tone clusters. A section of ascending and descending tone clusters spaced out in the percussive instruments is permeated with melodic fragments in winds, strings, and brass which highlight the surrounding harmony. Beautiful unto themselves, these fragments; yet by highlighting particularly resonant places in the harmony they work melodically and harmonically with equal effectiveness, a kind of contrapuntal skill prized particularly by composers of the Baroque. This section gives way to its logical outcome: percussion instruments given improvisatory textures over the prevailing harmonies, and strings small canonic statements which, by remaining only short motives, serve to keep the percussion tone clusters in the forefront of the listener’s imagination by not calling too much attention to themselves—again a balance of melody and harmony worthy of the Baroque era. ”
The Saturations series of pieces all focus on a very narrow “subject” and, similar to photography, saturates it with as much of the subject as possible. In Saturations III-A for example, I took a very short sample of a choir (singing an earlier piece of mine). The original sample was only a few seconds long, but through a number of software processes this complete work was made entirely from that original sample.
Sunder for orchestra (2,2,2,2; 4,3,3,1, hrp, piano, 3 perc, timp, strings), was written in 2004. It received its first reading at the 2004 Aspen Music Festival and School by the American Academy of Conductors Orchestra. 
