Partita for Solo Violin (2011)
Duration: 18'
Solo violin
Commissioned by Jennifer Koh
Premiere TBA

 

Peregrine (2011)
Duration 40'
Ambient Sound Sculpture
Commissioned by Evento 2011
Premiered at Evento, Bordeaux, France

 

Three Pieces for Organ (2011)
Duration: 12'

Organ
Commissioned by Friends of the Kotschmar Organ and the Lane Series
Premiered at University of Vermont, Burlington.

 

A Dream and its Opposite (2010)
Duration: 15'
Full Orchestra
Commissioned by Musik3
Premiered by La Jolla Symphony, Steven Schick, conductor

 

Canzona for Two Hearts (2010)
Duration: 14'
Chamber Ensemble
Commissioned by the Orchestra of St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble
Premiered at the Brooklyn Museum


A Needle Pulling Fred (2010)
Duration: 8'
Multitracked violin and electronics
Written for Todd Reynolds
On the Innova CD Outerborough

 

In Cognito (2009)
Duration: 6'
Electronica & field sound
Recording commissioned by Grand Valley State University
for their In C Remixed album

 

Really Real (2009)
Duration: 75'
Chamber chorus
Dance score for Wally Cardona, premiered at The International Festival of Arts & Ideas
Commissioned by Wally Cardona 4

 

The New City (2009)
Duration: 5'
Choral anthem, SATB, with organ
Premiered at the old Metropolitan Opera House in Philadelphia, PA
Commissioned by Group Motion and Hidden City

 

SPACE (2009)
Duration: 60'
Amplified string quartet 
Abridged version premiered by Ethel at Alice Tully Hall; complete version at Kennedy Center
Commissioned by Ethel

 

The Long Winter (2009)
Duration: 12'
Piano sonata 
Premiered by Sarah Cahill at Merkin Hall, NYC
Commissioned by Sarah Cahill

 

Search and Destroy (2008)
Duration: 4'
Arrangement of the Iggy Pop tune, for child vocalist and piano
Premiered by Andy Russo at Le Poisson Rouge
Commissioned by Andy Russo

 

Going Blind (2008)
Duration: 4'
Children's chorus
Setting of Rilke's poem 
Premiered by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus at the Kumble Center, Brooklyn
Commissioned by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus

 

Fear and Loathing (2008)
Duration: 50'
Song cycle for bass voice, violin, cello, bass guitar, piano, percussion
Texts from Hunter S. Thompson
Premiered by Wilbur Pauley, Todd Reynolds, Felix Fan, Phil Kline, David Cossin at the Kimmel Center, Philadelphia PA

 

Ghosts (2007)
Duration: 10'
Piano, electronics and video
Written for Kathy Supove, who premiered it at The Flea Theater, NYC
Commissioned by Kathy Supove

 

World on a String (2007) 
Duration: infinite
Sound installation at the Krannert Center of the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Commissioned by the Krannert Center

 

Sonic Dances 1 & 2 (2007)
Duration: 10' and 20' 

Electronica dance score for Group Motion
World premiere at City Hall Courtyard in Philadelphia
Commissioned by Group Motion

 

Globe (2007)
Duration: 40'
Soundscore to James Nares film
Premiered at Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
Commissioned by Issue Project Room

 

Site (2007) 
Duration: 70'
Concert band
Dance score for Wally Cardona, premiered at Dance Theater Workshop
Commissioned by Wally Cardona and Meet The Composer

 

John the Revelator (premiere 2006, revised version 2007)
Duration: 45'
Vocal sextet and string quartet
Texts: traditional Latin Mass as well as selections from the Bible, American "shape note" hymns, Samuel Beckett, and David Shapiro
Premiered by Lionheart and Ethel at the World Financial Center's Winter Garden, NYC
Commissioned by WNYC and the New York State Council on the Arts

 

Around the World in a Daze (2006)
Duration: 65'
Surround sound suite for instruments, voices and electronica

Commissioned by Starkland

 

Mambo #1 (2006)
Duration: 3'
Piano solo
Premiered by Lora Tchekoratova at Greenwich House, NYC
Commissioned by the Keys to the Future piano festival

 

Locus Solus (2006)
Duration: 70'
Voice, violin, percussion quartet (vibraphones, xylophone, marimba, glockenspiels, drums), electronics
Texts by David Shapiro and Phil Kline
A music-theater piece written for singer Theo Bleckmann, violinist Todd Reynolds, and the Talujon Percussion Quartet
Premiered at the Ryerss Mansion Museum in Philadelphia
Commissioned by Meet The Composer

 

Locus Solus: Prelude (2006)
Duration: 40'
Voice, violin, percussion quartet (vibraphones, glockenspiels), electronics
Premiered at the Whitney Museum at Altria in NYC

 

Tarantella (2006)
Duration: 4'
String orchestra
Arrangement of final movement from The Blue Room and other stories
Premiered by Ensemble Resonanz in Hamburg, Germany

 

Chinook (2006)
Duration: 24'
An outdoor boombox symphony premiered at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy
Commissioned by Echoes from the Mountains and Global Connections

 

Everywhere (2005)
Duration: 60'
String quartet and live boombox installation
Dance score for the Wally Cardona Quartet
Premiered at the TBA Festival in Portland, OR, and the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
Commissioned by the Aaron Copland Fund/American Music Center

 

Symphony for 21 iPods (2005)
Duration: infinite
Installation at the ArtMetro Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio
Commissioned by the Ingenuity Festival

 

Trickling Down (2005)
Duration: 23'
Boombox orchestra
Streets of NYC's Financial District
Commissioned by the River to River Festival

 

The Last Buffalo (2005)
Duration: 12'
Cello, piano, percussion (vibraphone and hubcaps)
Premiered by Real Quiet in La Jolla, CA

Commissioned by Muzik3

 

Partita (2005)
Duration: 10'
String orchestra (also available in version for string nonet)
Premiered by Ethel and Red{an orchestra} in Cleveland, Ohio
Commissioned by the EOS Orchestra

 

Grand Etude Symphonique (2004)
Duration: 10'
Solo violin and electronics
Written for violinist Todd Reynolds and premiered at the Whitney Museum at Altria in NYC

 

Zippo Songs (2003)
Duration: 30'
Cycle of seven songs: Voice, violin, percussion (vibraphone, drums), guitar, electronics
Texts from American Vietnam GIs' Zippo lighters
Written for Theo Bleckmann, vocal; Todd Reynolds, violin; David Cossin, percussion; Phil Kline, guitar
Premiered at HERE in NYC
Commissioned by the Mary Flagler Cary Trust

 

Three Rumsfeld Songs (2003)
Duration: 5'
Voice, violin, percussion (vibraphone), guitar, electronics
Texts from Donald Rumsfeld Pentagon briefings
Premiered at HERE in NYC

 

Pictures of an Exhibitionist (2003)
Duration: 20'
Piano with optional slide show
Twenty-three miniature piano pieces written for Kathy Supove
Premiered at Roulette in NYC
Commissioned by the New York State Council on the Arts

 

The Story of B (2003) (collaboration with composer Eve Beglarian)
Duration: 90'
Soprano, mezzo, tenor, keyboard, flute, guitar, sitar, accordian
Texts by Phil Kline and Eve Beglarian
A song cycle based on Pierre Louys' Songs of Bilitis
Premiered at the Flynn Center in Burlington, VT
Commissioned by Meet the Composer

 

The Blue Room and other stories (2002)
Duration: 22'

String quartet
Written for Ethel, premiered at Miller Theater, NYC

Reynolds Etudes (2001)
Duration: 14'
Solo violin and electronics
Four violin pieces written for Todd Reynolds

 

Meditations in an Emergency (2001)
Duration: 25'
Music video triptych
Premiered at the Ought One Festival in Montpelier, VT

 

Vigil (2001)
Duration: 40'
Infinite number of boomboxes
Walking vigil held on September 22, 2001. Union Square, NYC.

 

Last words before vanishing from the face of the earth (2001)
Duration: 35'
Installation for 24 boomboxes on top of Terrible Mountain in Ludlow, VT

 

Into the Fire (2001)
Duration: 45'
Four readers, four video monitors, mezzo-soprano, violin, viola, keyboard, boomboxes
Texts by Luc Sante
Premiered at The Kitchen, NYC

 

Yawp (2001)
Duration: 12'
Voice and tapes
Premiered by the composer at the Bang on a Can Marathon at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), NYC

 

Unbelievable i(2001)
Duration: 40'
Voice, harmonicas, boomboxes
Live dance score for David Hurwith premiered at Tanztage, Sophiensaal, in Berlin, Germany

 

When I Had a Voice
2001
Duration: 25'
Mezzo-soprano, 2 child sopranos, viol quartet
Setting of poems by David Shapiro
Premiered by Alexandra Montano and Parthenia at Grace Church, NYC
Commissioned by the American Composers Forum

 

Svarga Yatra
2000
Duration: 20'
String quartet and electronics (also a version for string orchestra)
Premiered by the Sirius Quartet at the Brooklyn Anchorage

 

The Garden of Divorce
1998
Duration: 10'
Written for guitarist Mark Stewart and the Glenn Branca Ensemble
Premiered at the Barbican Centre, London

 

Exquisite Corpses

1997
Duration: 11'
Clarinet, cello, bass, guitar, piano, percussion (vibraphone and drum set)
Written for the Bang on a Can All-Stars
Premiered at the Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, NYC
Commissioned by Bang on a Can

 

The Holy City of Ashtabula (1996)
Duration: 24'
Large boombox choir
Premiered at Music at the Anchorage, Brooklyn, NY

 

Whole Lotta Love (1996)
Duration: 15'
Voice and 12 tape loops
Premiered by the composer at the Bang on a Can Marathon at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC

T o be sung on the water (1995)
Duration: 45'
Walking boombox installation
Premiered at the Whitney Biennial, NYC

 

Premonition (1995)
Duration: 5'
Fanfare for 24 boomboxes
Premiered at the Rapp Arts Center, NYC

 

A Fantasy on One Note
(1993)
Duration: 10'
Electric guitar and delay systems
Premiered by the composer at the University of Minnesota, Moorehead, MN

 

Unsilent Night (1992)
Duration: 45'
For infinite number of boomboxes
Debuted in the streets of Greenwich Village, NYC, and has since been performed annually in cities around the US, Canada, and Europe

 

Bachman's Warbler (1992)
Duration: 17'
For harmonicas and 12 boombox tape loops
Premiered by the composer at the Bang on a Can Marathon, Ethical Culture Society Hall, NYC

 

 

 

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  also featured on  

John the Revelator
2009
Lionheart, vocals, Ethel (Cornelius Dufallo and Mary Rowell, violins, Ralph Farris, viola, Dorothy Lawson, cello)
Cantaloupe Music 21047

Kyrie
purchase:     
     

Around the World in a Daze
2009
Starkland S-2015 DVD

 

Grand Etude for the Elevation

purchase:              
     

Zippo Songs
2004

Theo Bleckmann, David Cossin, Todd Reynolds
Cantaloupe Music 21029


If I Had a Farm

purchase:   

     
Unsilent Night
2001
Cantaloupe Music 21017


Unsilent Night

purchase:   

     
Glow in the Dark
1998
Composers Recordings (CRI)

Ashtabula

purchase:  

 
Outerborough
2011
A Needle Pulling Fred

Todd Reynolds, violin
Innova Records 21047
A Needle Pulling Fred
purchase:     
     
For Your Safety
2010
Over and Out

Zach Miskin, cello
Naive

Over and Out

purchase:  

     

In C Remix
2009
In Cognito

Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble
Innova Records 21047

In Cognito
purchase:     
     
Immersion
2009
Starkland

The Housatonic at Henry Street

purchase:  

     
Mix Tape
2008
Search and Destroy
Andrew Russo, piano
Endeavour Classics

Seach and Destroy

purchase:  

     
Messiah Remix
2009
Cantaloupe Music


Hallelujah

purchase:   


The Blue Room and other stories
2003
Ethel (Todd Reynolds and Mary Rowell, violins, Ralph Farris, viola, Dorothy Lawson, cello)
Cantaloupe Music 21017


The Blue Room: IV. Tarantella

purchase:   

     
The Alternative Schubertiade
1999
Composer Recordings

Franz in the Underworld

purchase:  

     

Renegade Heaven

"Exquisite Corpses"
1998
Bang on a Can All-stars
Cantaloupe Music


Exquisite Corpses

purchase:   

 
also of interest
 
Symphony Nos. 8 & 10
1994
Glenn Branca
Atavistic

 

purchase:  

     
Symphony Nos. 6
1989
Glenn Branca
Atavistic

 

purchase:  

     
The Del Byzanteens
Beggars Banquet
1982
 
     
     

 

 

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October 25-27
Out Cold
with Theo Bleckmann and ACME
BAM Next Wave Festival [website]

 

November 11
Partita for Solo Violin
Jennifer Koh
Royal Conservatory of Music
Toronto, Canada [website]