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Jabberwocky
2018
The last song of five in my Lewis Carroll song cycle, The Wonderland Cycle.
Ghost in the Mirror
2020
Fixed media. You wake in the middle of the night and decide to get a glass of water. You walk past a mirror on your way. Your mind isn’t quite awake yet, and for one brief, terrifying moment you don’t recognize the face staring back at you.
glass sparkles as it bounces
2020
For solo double bass and fixed media, commissioned by Christopher Jeffer.
Close to you.
2022
Fixed media and dancers. Written for Keeley Dunnam, choreographer. Video coming soon!
We grow, we fight, we metamorphize.
2022
Fixed media and dancers. Written for Keeley Dunnam, choreographer. Video coming soon!
breaking in torrent—
2021
breaking in torrent—, for two piano, two percussion, and fixed media. Performed by the icarus Quartet; Bowling Green State University.
On the Wind
2019
Yanari 家鳴
2020
Yanari are miniature oni (鬼, ogres) which appear in houses late at night. They appear most often in wooden houses — especially those of cheap or new construction in which all of the parts have not had time to settle yet. They often carry miniature weapons or tools, such as mallets or iron clubs.
Yanari only do one thing, and they love doing it: making noise. They come out from the floors, ceilings, and the woodwork late at night when everyone is in bed, and they run about the house performing mischief. Specifically, they bang the furniture, the walls, floors, ceilings, and anything else they can find. Occasionally they even break objects, although their activity is usually non-destructive. Yanari delight in the work, and take it very seriously. Although tiny, they have a strong work ethic and do their best to perform their duty of making noise to the fullest.
Text used with permission from Yokai.com
Study No. 1, “The Cup Song”
2020
For percussion solo. Performed by Clay Hoffner at the BGSU Praecepta 24x24 Concert event, Spring 2020.
Oil and Water
2018
For violin, piano, and dancers. Choreography by Lydia Miller. Premiere performance, Spring 2018.
AMA
2018
Sound design, score (2018). Film used as visual material for educational purposes and practice.
Laundry
2018
Foley, sound design, score (2018). Film used as visual material for educational purposes and practice.
Mindful(l)
2017
For alto sax, viola, prayer bowl, and percussion. Written for the UPBEAT International Summer School Composer/Performer program, in Milna, Brac, Croatia. Artwork by Takashi Murakami.
Tibetan prayer bowls, also called singing bowls, are used by monks to indicate changes in activity during the day as well as to indicate the beginning of silent meditation. After recently acquiring my own singing bowl, I became fascinated by how it might feel to achieve such a complete calmness in the mind through meditation with the sound of the bowl, as well as how the brain comes to reach that state. What scenes may the mind pass through to get there? The ideas of changing states of mind, transformational scenes of thought, and the brain during calm meditation (or lack thereof) in this piece were all initially inspired by the ways in which prayer bowls are used in daily life.
Bubble Rainbow Dance Party
2018
Make sure to look up and not take things so seriously today! Enjoy this bubbly, rainbow-colored creation.
Resist
2016
For violoncello, harp, and marimba. Resist may be interpreted in a few ways. In form, each section of the piece resists becoming a singular main idea; metaphorically, resist may be felt as it means to restrain oneself from something, may it be a memory, an idea, an opportunity or temptation. To know a nostalgic longing for that something we could have, but resist possession of in order to better preserve who we are.
Painting by René Magritte.
flighty / feral
2019
ROMANS
2017
For solo marimba. This piece was commissioned by and is dedicated to Luke Hahn. The verses Romans 8: 38, 39 are of personal significance to Luke and were used as a major compositional device throughout Mvt. 2. These verses also inspired the title of the piece, ROMANS.
Performed by Stephen Symank (2017)
A boat beneath a sunny sky
2018
For orchestra, inspired by the poem, A boat beneath a sunny sky by Lewis Carroll. This piece is part of a collection of works I am creating inspired by the literature of Lewis Carroll.