Chamber Music Publications
Compositions and Arrangements for Solo Instruments and Mixed Chamber Groups
Vexation Day: Or, What if Erik Satie were Bill Murray in Groundhog Day? for electric bass and two loopers
Commissioned by Dr. Drew Waters, this composition draws inspiration from Satie's A Day In The Life Of A Musician as well as the bass line from his Vexations. It occurred to me that Satie would probably enjoy being in Bill Murray's shoes. Available here soon.
The Noise I Just Made for solo soprano saxophone
This work was inspired by a form of Persian verse called ruba'i. In the English translations, the rhyme scheme is AABA. In this piece, I interpret a rhyme to mean "matching musical motive." I adopted a cyclical method of connecting the stanzas together making the unrhymed motive of the current phrase the rhymed motive of the following phrase. Furthermore, each instance of the motive is a development of the previous instance. For example, AA'BA'' B'CB''B''' C'DC''C''' D'A'''D''D'''. The piece has the quality of a spontaneously composed piece while still adhering to a rigid structure. Available here soon.