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500 compositions, audio plus scores & parts. Many more pieces are available in inked format, so if you don't find it, check the Big List
The Big List has everything: published scores, demos, inked scores, ASCAP numbers, and even lost and destroyed pieces. Compositional compulsion!
Frog Peak Music is my exclusive distributor. Download, print, and perform scores from this site, but purchase from Frog Peak Music for professional scores ready to play.
My 1973 Ionic Industries "Performer" Synth, with documentation, pieces made with it, and a VSTi emulation!.
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Brand New Electroacoustic Recordings!
Get them here!
New Erzsébet Opera Recordings!
My Erzsébet Opera Project was a long time coming and a big deal for me. You can also get the CD or DVD premiere recordings here!
Beautiful Print Publications You Will Love!
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O: Eleven Songs for Chorus SATB with text by Gary Barwin from Lulu.com. These vivid settings of eleven poems by Gary Barwin are mysterious, funny, tender, inventive, rich in association, and eminently singable. From the skittering conversation of "The Birds," to the alternate Medieval world of "Sparrows' Song" and the rhythmic footsy of "Small Apes and White Feet," these songs strike a balance between thoughtful reflection and quirky off-kilter humor.
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Erzsébet: A Monodrama is the opera's score from Lulu.com. This large volume is the full orchestration in a beautiful presentation with Lisa Jablow as Erzsébet on the cover. The opera is complete and premiered; a DVD will be offered here shortly! Complete background on the opera and information on downloading information, purchasing T-shirts, programs, etc., as well as future performances can be found on The Bathory Opera Website.
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Three Performance Pieces is available from Lulu.com. Three beautiful performance scores from the 2007 "We Are All Mozart" project. One is a set of 99 performance pieces, the second a set of seven sections for French horn, and the third a set of 13 graphical scores for tenor guitar. Several of the latter are part of the "Notations21" gallery series.
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Erzsébet: A Monodrama is the opera's libretto available from either Amazon.com or Lulu.com. The opera is complete and premiered, and a DVD will be offered here shortly! The libretto includes the full text along with images in a beautiful commemorative volume. More info at The Bathory Opera Website
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Country Stores of Vermont: A History and Guide is available from The History Press. It's a really good book, with fantastic pictures and great stories as well as ten fantastic tours of Vermont. You can get it cheaper at Amazon.com or you can get copies from our local Vermont bookstores and country & general stores. Autographed copies also available..
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Read All About Me, Me, Me!
Kyle Gann wrote a complimentary profile about me (I'm "a shadowy figure" -- yeah!) in Chamber Music Magazine in November. It was a very nice piece which you can read here (PDF).
What Year 2011 Has Wrought!
Wow. It's hard to describe what's happened in the year since I've last had time to update my own personal website. The overwhelming part has been staging three performances of Erzsébet, the monodrama about the Countess Erzsébet Báthory. Full details of this production are at The Bathory Opera Website. I'll just say that it was a staggeringly beautiful production with astounding work by Lisa Jablow as the Countess, direction by Ann Harvey and with Anne Decker conducting the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble. The full production will be available on DVD shortly (by January 2012). Here is a 70-second clip.
The year was more than that. It was the Year of the Vermont Composer, which you can read all about in New Music Box and Sequenza21. One of the great pleasures of the year was the premiere of my three-movement Sonata for Viola, including the three movements "In Search of the Seven Blue Stars," "In Search of the Lightness of Horizon," and "Evasively Transcendental". Violist Elizabeth Reid played it beautifully at Radio Bean in March, a performance you can see and hear on YouTube or download in score form. In May, Starry Night was premiered by the genius young pianist Joe Pepper (score available in the keyboard catalog), and the performance was thrilling -- very powerful. My father-son duet Counting Myself was played by Tristan Blais and his dad Bob in February, a delightful performance you can also see and hear on YouTube and which you can download in score form. Bob and his cello chamber ensemble also premiered The Four Elements (Earth, Air, Water, Sleep) for cello quartet. I don't have a score or recording for you yet ... haven't gotten to it, but I will!
Autumn Dig, a piece for intermediate orchestra, was revised for Bob Blais and the Green Mountain Youth Symphony. They performed it enthusiastically and dramatically a few times in March; check it out on YouTube and grab a score and parts from the Large Ensemble Catalog. It's fun to play for orchestras of any age! Another performance from early in the year was the premiere of the piece for alto flute, bass clarinet, bassoon, guitar and djembe entitled Giè, done by the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble. This commission is wonderful and evocative, and you can see and hear one of several fine performances on YouTube and then check out a copy in the Expanded Chamber Catalog.
2011 was also the year of a huge flood in Vermont, which damaged our home and tossed us out of the house for a few weeks. We recovered, but not in time to hear the VCME perform Fuliginous Quadrant on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. The group did a performance in April. You can see and hear the April performance on YouTube and of course download a score from the Chamber Music for Four Instruments Catalog. (This work had its world premiere in Belgium in 2003. These were the U.S. premieres.)
There are a bunch of new pieces which haven't been premiered yet. iota for solo violin, Parched Fields for violin and cello, A Breath on the Kitchen Window for two violins, and O: Eleven Songs for Chorus on text by Gary Barwin, some of them read at the Warebrook Music Festival this past summer. The three short ones are available for download from the catalog. Last and somewhat least were premieres of You Spotted Snakes for voices and strings for the Johnson State College Theatre Department, and an arrangement of Mad World for the JSC Chorus. Fun!
New Younger Performer Section
I've added a section to my catalog, Music for Young Performers. This was done on request because my music for young players (and emerging amateurs) was mixed in with the other several hundred in my catalog. So here it is!
Opera Lyrics Font
I've created a TrueType font based on 19th century opera scores. It has all the typical characters and a few more, but is missing still a few of the special characters. I'll improve it over the next few months, but if you're interested, here it is: Opera-Lyrics-Smooth. If you distribute it, please keep in mind that this version (1.65) will occasionally be updated. Click image for full-sized chart.
Build 4 U!
People have remarked for years about the imaginative character of our little New England cape, full of hand-made furniture, cabinets, closets, shelves and other interesting items. Now you can have these, too because I will build it 4 u!
Yes I am...
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Getcher Bumper Sticker!
Join the nonpop "Buy Local" campaign! If you're a composer or supporter of new nonpop, you can get a bumper sticker for five bucks at CafePress, item number 80570307, or even better you can download and print it yourself. The CafePress one is only 10 inches wide, but you can use the full-size image to print a big one on 11x17 paper and trim it to standard 3.75" x 15" bumper sticker size.
We Are All Mozart -- Over but Not Forgotten
We Are All Mozart A 365-day composition project.
The plan was to finish one piece of commissioned music a day in 2007. The commissioning goal wasn't met, but I finished 100 pieces, every one commissioned. The project was a success, and ultimately has influenced many other composers to pursue their compositional goals with intensity and commitment.
Please visit my "We Are All Mozart" website to read about the purpose of this project, and hear demos and the premieres as they come in!
Openings for Engraving and Editing
I have openings for new music engraving clients and book editing clients. Here are samples of my music engraving work, and you can find the results of some of my book editing work at the admittedly very old Transitive Empire site. Here's how to contact me.
People Have Asked...
...why I give away my music. Here is the answer.
What's in the Older News section? Stuff you can use...
- My music as ringtones for download
- My library of musical scores for sale
- Ionic "Performer" 1973 Synth VSTi for download
- Wooden Kind remix with Lee Noyes
- Crosscut (2009) piano concerto announcement
- Composition for Tape & Soloists (1969) score available for download
- Eventide (2006) studio recording for download
- Availability and samples of Vermont photography
- Country Stores of Vermont (2008) announcement
- Progress of and announcements about We Are All Mozart (2007)
...and much more back to 2000.
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2011 Performances and Events
- October 30, Burlington, Vermont: Erzsébet, The Opera. Lisa Jablow as Erzsébet with the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, Anne Decker, conductor, and directed by Ann Harvey. Black Box Theatre at Main Street Landing, 4pm.
- October 29, Plainfield, Vermont: Erzsébet, The Opera. Lisa Jablow as Erzsébet with the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, Anne Decker, conductor, and directed by Ann Harvey. Haybarn Theatre at Goddard College, 8pm.
- October 28, Hyde Park, Vermont: Erzsébet, The Opera. Lisa Jablow as Erzsébet with the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, Anne Decker, conductor, and directed by Ann Harvey. Hyde Park Opera House, 8pm.
- September 25, New York City: ...daar zaten wij for solo voice. Beth Giffith, soprano, as part of the Vox Novus "15 Minutes of Fame" Project. Jan Hus Church.
- September 11, Burlington, Vermont: Fuliginous Quadrant for violin, clarinet, cello and piano. Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble. FlynnSpace, 4pm.
- June 18, Montpelier, Vermont: The Four Elements for four celli. Students of Robert Blais. Unitarian Church, 3pm.
- June 5, Burlington, Vermont: Toccata for piano. Joseph Pepper, piano. Unitarian-Universalist Church, 7:30pm.
- May 15, Montpelier, Vermont: Starry Night for piano. Joseph Pepper, piano. Bethany Church, 4pm.
- April 10, Barre, Vermont: Autumn Dig for orchestra. Green Mountain Youth Symphony. Barre Opera House, 2pm.
- April 1, Montpelier, Vermont: Fuliginous Quadrant for violin, cello, clarinet & piano. Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble. Unitarian Church, 8pm.
- March 30, Burlington, Vermont: Fuliginous Quadrant for violin, cello, clarinet & piano. Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble. FlynnSpace, 4pm.
- March 27, Montpelier, Vermont: Autumn Dig for orchestra. Green Mountain Youth Symphony. Montpelier High School, 3:30pm.
- March 26, Romeoville, Illinois: Driving My 1948 Limbo, in the Vox Novus 60x60 Project UnTwelve Mix, MusicBYTES, Lewis University.
- March 12, Burlington, Vermont: Sonata for viola. Elizabeth Reid, viola. Radio Bean, 7:30pm.
- February 23-26, Huddersfield, United Kingdom: Driving My 1948 Limbo, in the Vox Novus 60x60 Project UnTwelve Mix, Atrium of the Creative Arts Bulding, GEMdays.
- February 20, Montpelier, Vermont: Giè for alto flute, bass clarinet, bassoon, guitar and djembe. Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble. Unitarlian Church, 2pm.
- February 18, Burlington, Vermont: Giè for alto flute, bass clarinet, bassoon, guitar and djembe. Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble. FlynnSpace, 8pm.
- February 11, Long Beach: Driving My 1948 Limbo, in the Vox Novus 60x60 Project Sanguine Mix, University Art Museum, California State University.
- February 10, Wayne, New Jersey: Driving My 1948 Limbo, in the Vox Novus 60x60 Project Sanguine Mix, William Paterson University.
- February 10, Johnson, Vermont: You Spotted Snakes for singers & strings. Johnson State Theatre Department. Dibden Auditorium, 7:30pm.
- February 5, Montpelier, Vermont: Counting Myself for 2 celli. Tristan and Bob Blais, celli. Unitarian Church, 3pm.
- February 1, Bowling Green: Driving My 1948 Limbo, in the Vox Novus 60x60 Project UnTwelve Mix, Bryan Recital Hall, Bowling Green State University.
- January 27, London: Driving My 1948 Limbo, in the Vox Novus 60x60 Project Sanguine Mix, The Sprawl.
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Essays, Papers, Presentations, Polemics, and Stuff
- The Cheap $31 Folding Jig (2005), build a jig for folding scores and booklets -- only $2 if you've already got a paper cutter!
- Imagination and Exploitation: Some History of Digital Technology in My Music-Making (2004), talk by the composer about computer music, then and now.
- Thoughts on the Small Form (2004), a brief commentary about very short pieces of music.
- The Cheap Under $15 Jecklin Disk (2003), build an impossible-to-find and better-than-professional Jecklin Disk for live recording in an hour or two.
- The Cheap Under $5 Microphone Shockmount (2003), save that $60-per-piece price for commercial products and build a flexible mount in an hour.
- Everybody's Gotta Trust ... But Verify? (2003), polemic about copy protection and corporate delusion.
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Preserving the Future's Past: EA Artists Must Take Care of Their Own Archives (2002), conversation and recommendations about archiving audio artworks.
- Riding the Cheap Electron (2002), paper presented at Dartmouth College about a composer's history with synthesis.
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The Pros and Woes of Being a Self-Taught Composer (2002), article on the topic for New Music Box.
- No Denial of the Bête Familiale (2001), paper presented at Dartmouth College about the role of the computer musician.
- Xenakis: The Continuing Composer -- A Personal Reflection on Iannis Xenakis (2001), article on the influence of Iannis Xenakis.
- The Curse of Love (2000), paper presented at Dartmouth College about eclecticism, copyright, and interactivity.
- How to Get Here from There (Stomach Music to Sourian Slide) or Is There a Reason You've Canceled My Premiere Yet Again? (2000), paper presented at Goddard College about my life and work.
- Road Ahead, Road Behind (2000), original article for Slashdot revealing the creation of No Money (Lullaby for Bill) from Bill Gates's voice.
- Destined for Obscurity Again -- How Partch Influenced Me (2000), article reflecting on Harry Partch..
- The Patron Saint of Mediocrities (1999), paper presented at Bregman Studios of Dartmouth College about my life and work.
- Turning Sausage Back Into The Pig: The Year 2000 Problem in Northfield, Vermont (1999), a look at Year 2000 problems and how they are affecting my local community.
- 'Our Demented Therapeutic Culture' (1998), essay written for Kalvos & Damian on the erosion of cultural daring.
- A Challenge for Richard Branson (1998), a letter suggesting Branson transform the landscape of contemporary music.
- The Churchill Society Debate: A Futile Correspondence (1998), an exchange with the Churchill Society on the state of new music.
- Your Music on the Web: Ways, Means, Rights, and the Old West: New Concepts, Paradigms and Fears (1997), article outlining techniques for presentation and protection on the Web.
- I Don't Know How -- or Why: Night Thoughts on the Process of Composition (1995), including a link to an audio version.
- A Cloak for the Lord of Cats (1995), a short-short story about vampiress Báthory Erzsébet, a true historical figure. This story forms the basis of a scene in a proposed opera.
- You Still Make Me Bleed: Letter to a Casual Critic (1994), fierce letter defining the position on the composer in mid-1990s Vermont.
- It's Time to Bury the Dead (1992), intense article calling for the end of performances of older concert music and a revision in thinking and sensibility.
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Composing a New Language (1992), proposal presented at MedArt International by Barbara S.J. Balch and me to replace lost language skills with musical language developed through interaction and virtual reality.
- Construal of Music Process Architecture (1992), paper presenting personal views and reports on musical composition in Europe.
- Why Do It?: Replies to the Vermont Composers Consortium Questionnaire (1989), answers to strange questions posed by a strange organization.
- The Clinic: A Dream Writ Down (1988), an actual, cold-sweat-inducing dream recorded the next morning as a short story.
- Variations on the Notion of Variation: Questioning the Whys of Composing (1987), internal conversations about the art of composing.
- The Image Behind the Glass (1986), talk to ID Expo in Boston on light pens and touch screens that presages modern palmtops, handwriting recognition, and artificial intelligence features.
- The Impact of the Microprocessor (1982), prophetic and political talk about microprocessor technology and philosophy, presented to the ACM at Rensselaer in Troy, New York.
- The Microprocessor as a Modern Odysseus (1982), similar talk with a personal sidelight about music and the arts, presented to the IEEE in Burlington, Vermont.
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