Acoustic Music

My instrumental and vocal music mainly comprises works of chamber music and works for soloists, complete with program notes. For most of the works, the compositional process was based on G. M. Koenig’s composition program Project One. This program requires the composer to stipulate a small set of musical ideas in terms of sets of musical parameters (pitch, etc.) associated with a specific degree of randomness. Work with the program leads to an entirely free interpretation of data outputs for individual voices and instruments as materials for creating a particular movement. Musical form emerges as a function of the way in which the composer chooses to sequence the movements created.  As a result, entirely different movements and works can be written based on one and the same data set interpreted differently by the composer.

To understand this kind of creative process, go to the set of slides found at Compositional Process.

The table of compositions below comprises three series: Boston Series, Medford Series, and Unperformed.

A selection of my instrumental music is streame.

For a list of all performed compositions (with program notes) click here.

For a list of unperformed and unrecorded compositions (with program notes) click here.