Category Archives: Small Ensemble

Short Songs is a collection of 8 short (sometimes very short) songs, written to be a loosely-related collection of miniatures. The songs can be performed in any order, and performers are encouraged to order them as fluidly or jarringly as they wish. The songs are each shorter than 2 minutes, with the shortest being aboutContinue reading “Short Songs”

to wait; dreaming is a percussion quartet written for and dedicated to the Kairos Percussion Quartet. This piece explores unconventional performance practices and approximate notation for the quartet, in an effort to create a reactive aggregate sound with an inhuman, yet distinctly vocal quality. This piece is heavily inspired by the dream sequence in TheContinue reading “to wait; dreaming”