Composition Highlights

emergent patterns

An open instrumentation and aleatoric piece written for the Texas New Music Ensemble for the Texas New Music Festival. Highly inspired by Julius Eastman’s works.

//demon

A piece for Alto Sax and live processed visuals and electronics premiered at Splice Institute 2023. This piece featured the closest integration of video and music in a single max patch. I am very proud of the final presentation of the work. The piece featured three cameras for live processing.

last

The title track from my fourth album and the first track I had done entirely in Ableton and Max for Live. I integrated a lot of my randomization techniques developed from my time with Max standalone. It was also my first attempt at a more “pop” sounding electronic work with elements of my classical minimalism techniques. Lots of classical instrument samples were used for the composition of this work. The whole album uses Max extensively and two of the pieces were done completely with standalone. Click the image below to listen!

Low Earth Orbit for String Quartet

A four movement string quartet depicting a fictional trip orbiting the Earth. Audio and score can be found in the link above

eternal

Performed with Synthlab as a solo virtual work. Composed completely using Max. I was very proud of the very complex variety of timbres, rhythms, and harmonies I achieved all through bounded random within Max. I think this work shows the full potential of Max has a highly complex sequencer, synth, and sampler.

piano from “13 Fruitcakes”

Premiered with the LA Laptop Collective at LaMaMa in New York City for the experimental work of music theatre “13 Fruitcakes”

More info on the performance here.

cymbal for la fin du monde

Premiered at Que Sera. Performed at Electronic Realizations with Synthlab

Clock on a Chain

Premiered at SoundPedro 2019 and performed again at MISE-EN_PLACE for Bushwick Open Studios in Brooklyn, New York.

King George VI

An original one act opera premiered at Daniel Recital Hall