Works

Contemporary

• The Black Rain for amplified string quintet with live computer processing (score)
• The Seventh Voyage for piano and laptop (video)
• Dr Mueller? Dr Mueller!? Oh, boy :( for clarinet and acoustic laptop (score, recording)
• Liebesglück hat tausend Zungen for soprano voice and piano (score, video)
• The Whirlies for strings and electro-junk improviser (video, audio)
• The Other Other Hand for ensemble (video)
• So-Called ‘Natural Selection’ for strings and speaking voice
• In the back of my mind for three flutes and clarinet choir (video)
• L’auteur n’est pas mort for clarinet, piano and hang (video-score)
• String Quartet No 1 “In 4/4” for string quartet (score)
• The Society for Classical and Authentic Music for six oboes, six bassoons, two ghettoblasters and conductor (video coming one day, soon, maybe, never…)
• The Cave of Destiny duet for trumpet, bass trumpet and reverb (score, recording)
• Being Born, Living on Planet Earth and Dying for flute, violin, cello, piano, cimbalom and ghettoblaster
• Diverses Mélodies Nobles, Élevées et Héroïques, pour très grand ensemble for flute, trombone, piano, cello & percussion (score, recording)
• joined_at_the_hip for flute, clarinet, electric bass and djun-djuns
• Schaduwee for soprano, piano, four bassons, ghettoblaster and video
• Tribulation for Ensemble Thing (complete recording)
• de stem for four saxophones
• The Blue Box for cor anglais, violin and bass clarinet (complete recording)
• Exactly This for trumpet, bongos, contrabass, and CD
• 5lip5ide for trumpet, clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), piano, contrabass, percussion & space gamelan
• 4thought for violin, horn, piano, celesta, and CD
• donkerstraat for CD, horn, tenor sax, guitar & bass clarinet
• The Lonely Woodpecker for four alto saxes (complete recording)
• Not in my name for three marimbas and protagonist (video, audio)
• Les Rencontres Naturelles for vibraphone, viola, contrabass and CD (score, audio extract)
• Ohom zu oboye no wo? for amplified recorder (alto, doubling bass) and CD (or laptop) (.mp3 demo, midi sounds)
• Muscle Tone for soprano saxophone & piano (.mp3 demo, midi sounds)
• Bridge River Valley for piano; also for flute, clarinet, violin & cello (score, .mp3 & .mid demos)
• The Quartet for solo cello
• othing for strings
• There’s always one for four saxophones
• Answers from last week for pocket orchestra, with timps
• Hanc marginis… for four voices (complete recording)
• smir for soprano sax, double bass, marimba and piano (complete recording)
• I walked away from the guy for clarinet, violin and piano
• de straalvleugel for flugelhorn and marimba (complete recording)
• Pivot for clarinet, violin and cello
• Tears of Joy for ensemble (score, complete recording)
• Surprising Natural Phenomena for flugelhorn, didgeridoo & minidisk
• The Pearl for ensemble (score, demo recording)
• Dialog for didgeridu & band (complete recording)
• …until someone jumps. for flute, bass clarinet (or clarinet), violin, piano & cello
• If Piccs Could Fly for four piccolos
• Peroration for organ (revised version) (complete recording)
• Azure for Flute Mafia for four flutes
• Ha! for strings
• Be sure to concentrate while you are degaussing! for voices & piano
• Sunbird One for invention ensemble (complete recording)
• (pq) assembly for invention ensemble (complete recording)
• The Transilience of Monsieur Pelog for invention ensemble
• Reality Intrudes Upon the Comfort of the Rich for loud ensemble and assistant conductor (text score)
• …certain players are finding reserves of energy… for voices, 2 keyboards & electric bass (audio extract)
• Ritual Preparation of the Performance Space for any ensemble (and assistants) (text score)
• The Willow Bay where Eagles are heard for orchestra
• Tonal Anarchists Through the Ages for bass clarinet, vibraphone, piano and percussion
• Many Paths Toward the Light; Truth the Only Compass for orchestra
• Seven Lies Regarding the Nature of Existence for four saxophones
• Two Protozoans (and a Sponge) for four flutes. (MIDI demo, score extract)
• Faint Clicks for four soprano saxophones (or four oboes). (MIDI demo)
• How Two Minds Can Know One Thing for chamber orchestra
• Studies of Nucleate Boiling in Thin Liquid Layers for chamber ensemble, symphonic wind band & jazz big band
• Rate-limiting Step for cello & harp
• Soutra Aisle for military band
• The Knowing of Things Together for didjeridu & ensemble

Openings

These are flexible bits of musical material, to re-use; sometimes as stand-alone pieces, more often as part of a bigger piece. Many of them appear as part of other works.

• Five Inanities for brass 5tet or similar (score, audio extracts)
• Adrift & Afloat for gamelan (or anything) (score, recordings)
• Circularthing for High Art Ensemble (or anything) (score, recording)
• Steadily-stop! for gamelan (or anything) (score)

Javanese Gamelan

• Running in the Dark for pelog gamelan (score)
• Joko Jive for pelog gamelan (score)
• An Ominous Flock of Birds for pelog gamelan and two flutes (score)
• Mambo Java for pelog gamelan & flute (MIDI demo, score extract)
• Shenebtya for pelog gamelan & two violas (audio extract)
• Gamelunk for pelog gamelan & jazz soloist (score, recording)

Jazz, Latin and Celtic

• La Tumba del Fa for latin big band
• Between Two Oceans for jazz ensemble
• El laberinto de mi mente for latin funk combo
• Los Muertos del Halfway House for street band
• Putting Up Shelves recorded by the Tartan Amoebas
• Infinite Snack Mode recorded by the Tartan Amoebas
• Reggalypso recorded by the Tartan Amoebas
• Changing Blue for jazz big band
• Bug Me for big band & vibraphone
• Samba Reggae for jazz wind band & samba drums
• Space Age Puppets and Masks for jazz wind band & samba drums

Collaborations, installations, electronics, theatre

• Gamelan Untethered with Gamelan Naga Mas
• Thor’s Magic Hammer for Clydebuilt Puppet Theatre
• ArtMaze 98 Glasgow Green, 2-3/5/98; a collaboration with Sophie J. Pragnell.
• A Maze of Wires & Waveforms self-contained interactive electronic musical sculpture

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