Roger Reynolds: Complete Alphabetical List of Works



Updated 3 March 2026 Back to Compositions COMPLETE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF WORKS Except for some works which remain in manuscript form in the Reynolds Archive, all compositions are published by or are on rental from Wise Music Classical, Part of Wise Music Group. G. Schirmer, Inc. and Associated Music Publishers, Inc., is the USA Wise Music Classical contact point for Roger Reynolds's music. CONTACT WISE MUSIC CLASSICAL CONTACT SCHIRMER RENTAL Tel: +1 (845) 469 4699 Fax: +1 (845) 469 7544 Email: rental@schirmer.com Email: perusals@schirmer.com A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 22
	Acquaintances (1960) 9' Flute, Double Bass, Piano First performance: 17 December 1962 Harvey Sollberger, flute, Bert Turetzky, double bass, Charles Wuorinen, piano McMillin Academic Theater, New York INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score includes parts for flute and contrabass] Wise new entry ACTIONS [SHARESPACE V] (2018-2020) 34' Solo Piano, Real-time algorithmic transformation First performance: 30 October 2023 Eric Huebner, pianist Jacob Sundstrom, computer musician Library of Congress, DC Commissioned by Eric Huebner ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Classical Music Purchase [score] Hire [sound files or real-time computer processing, Four Real-Time Algorithmsl] Wise new entry Aether (1983) 22' Violin, Piano First performance: 29 October 1983 The Library of Congress, Washington, DC János Négyesy, Violin, Cecil Lytle, Piano Commissioned by The McKim Fund in the Library of Congress SOLO Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [score, transposed violin part for violin scordatura] Wise add Hire Again (originally titled Template Series One) [rev. 1971-74] (1970) 30' 2 Sopranos, 2 Fl, 2 Tbn, 2 Perc, 2 Db, Quadraphonic electroacoustic sound, amplification, optional lighting First performance: 20 July 1970 American Festival, Nuits de la Fondation Maeght, St-Paul-de-Vence Evenings for New Music Ensemble, Lukas Foss, Conductor ELECTROACOUSTIC Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [11 scores needed for performance, sound files] Ambages (1965) 9.5' Solo Flute First performance: October 1965 Karen Reynolds, Flute Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio SOLO Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] The Angel of Death (1998-2001) 34' Solo Piano, Chamber Orchestra, 6-channel computer processed sound Solo Piano, Fl (Picc), Picc (Fl), Cl, B-cl, Hn, 2 Trp, Tbn, 3 Perc, 2 Vln, Vla, Vc, Db First performance: 7 June 2001 2001 Agora Festival, Paris Ensemble Court-circuit, Jean-Marie Cottet, Piano Pierre-André Valade, Conductor Commissioned by Ircam for the 2001 Agora Festival, Paris SOLO WITH ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [3 scores needed for performance, parts, sound files] AngelSpace (2010) 25’ Real-time interactive computer music EXPLANATORY TEXT, by Jacob Sudol with Roger Reynolds, is the score. First performance: 4 June 2010 Jacob Sudol, Computer Musician Stony Brook University, Long Island, New York ICMC 2010 New York ELECTROACOUSTIC Wise Music Classical Purchase [EXPLANATORY TEXT] and Hire [sound files, Explanatory Text] Wise new version Archipelago (1982-83) 32.5' Chamber Orchestra (32 players), 4- or 8-channel computer processed sound 2 Fl (2 Picc), 2 Ob (2 Ca), 2 Cl, bcl, 2 Bsn (2 cbn), 2 Hn, 3 Tpt, 2 Tbn, 1 Tba, 3 Perc, Pf, Ampf Hpd, Hp, Str (3, 0, 2, 2, 2) First Performance: 15 February 1983 Georges Pompidou Center, Paris Ensemble Intercontemporain, Péter Eötvös, Conductor Commissioned by Mme Pierre Schlumberger for Ircam INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance, parts, sound files] Ariadne's Thread (1994) 16' String Quartet, Computer generated sound (stereophonic and quadraphonic versions available) First performance: 2 December 1994 Messiaen Hall, Radio France, Paris, Arditti Quartet Commissioned by Radio France, The Florence Gould Foundation, and Les Ateliers UPIC STRINGS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [score, parts, sound files] Articulate Circles (2025) Percussion and projected video Video by Kyle Johnson First performance: pending Aiyun Huang, percussionist CIRMMT. McGill University PERCUSSION and MULTIMEDIA Wise Music Classical Purchase [score (in preparation)] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance, sound files, projections] Wise new entry Aspiration (2004-2005) 30' Solo Violin, Chamber Orchestra (14 players) Solo Violin, Fl (Picc), Cl, B-cl, Bsn (C-bsn), Hn, Trp, Tbn, Perc, Pf, 2 Vln, Vla, Vc, Db First performance: 5 October 2006 Norwegian Academy of Music Ultima Festival, Oslo Irvine Arditti, Violin, Oslo Sinfonietta, Christian Eggen, Conductor Written for Irvine Arditti Commissioned by the Oslo Sinfonietta and the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne of Montréal SOLO WITH ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [score, solo violin part, instrumental parts] Autumn Island (Islands from Archipelago: II) (1986) 13' Solo Marimba First performance: 7 November 1986 Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, Gordon Stout, Marimba National Endowment for the Arts Consortium Award SOLO Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] The Behavior of Mirrors (1985-1986) 6.5' Solo Guitar First performance: 9 February 1986 92nd Street Y, New York, David Starobin, Guitar Commissioned by David Starobin SOLO Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] Blind Men (1966) 16' 24-voice Mixed Chorus, Chamber Ensemble 3 Tpt, 2 Tbn, B-tbn, Tba, 2 Perc, Pf Text extracted from Journal Up the Straits by Herman Melville Projections of text by Karen Reynolds First performance: 15 August 1966 Berkshire Music Festival, Lenox Tanglewood Choir, Iva Dee Hiatt, Conductor Commissioned by the Fromm Foundation VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S) Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores, parts, projections] ...brain ablaze... she howled aloud (2000-2003) 22' One, two, or three Piccolos, Computer processed and spatialized sound, Real-time computer spatialization First performance with 3 Piccolos and European premiere: 6 May 2003 Anne La Berge, Carin Levine, Jäckle Burkhard, Piccolos Roger Reynolds, Computer cues management Bavarian Radio/Musica Viva Munich, Germany Commissioned by June in Buffalo First performance with 2 Piccolos: 14 June 2000 John Fonville, Rachel Rudich, Piccolos, Christopher Mercer, Computer cues management June in Buffalo, New York Commissioned by June in Buffalo SERIES OF WORKS and INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE [1-Piccolo version not yet performed] Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2-4 scores needed for performance, sound files] *Chatter/Clatter* (SANCTUARY Part I) (2007) 20' Solo Percussion and Computer Musician First performance: 7 June 2007 Steven Schick, Percussionist Ian Saxton, Algorithmic computer sound June in Buffalo Festival University at Buffalo – SUNY PERCUSSION Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance, sound files or real time computer processing, Four Real-Time Algorithms] Coconino...a shattered landscape [rev. 1993] (1985) 19' String Quartet First performance: 10 November 1985 Almeida Festival, London, Arditti Quartet Commissioned by the Arditti Quartet STRINGS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [score, parts] CO-EXISTENCE (2023) 9' Instrumental Septet, Computer processing First performance: 21 May 2023 WasteLAnd Nicholas Deyoe, Conductor Jacob Sundstrom, Computer Musician Experimental Theater CPMC, UC San Diego La Jolla INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance, parts, sound files or real-time computer processing, Four Real-Time Algorithms] Wise new entry CO-EXISTENCE... framed [CO-EXISTENCE extended] (2024-2025) 14' Instrumental Septet and Computer Sound First performance: 26 April 2025 Talea Ensemble, James Baker, Conductor Conrad Prebys Concert Hall La Jolla, California INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance, parts, sound files or real-time computer processing, Four Real-Time Algorithms] Wise new entry Colombi Daydream (2010) 7'45" Solo Cello First performance: 12 February 2011 Mystery Variations (31 short works based on the Chiacona by Giuseppe Colombi) Anssi Karttunen, Cello Festival Présences (Radio France), Théâtre du Châtelet Paris SOLO and STRINGS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] Wise add Purchase Compass (1972-73) 30' Tenor, Bass, Vc, Db, Quadraphonic electroacoustic sound, 35mm slide projections by Jerry Uelsmann Text on the poem by Jorge Luis Borges First performance: 7 March 1974 Theatre Vanguard, Los Angeles Howard Crook, Tenor, Philip Larson, Bass, Peter Farrell, Cello, Bertram Turetzky, Double Bass Commissioned by the Judith S. Stark Foundation VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S) Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [6 scores needed for performance, sound files, projections] Consider... (2004) 8'30" Tenor and French horn Text: adapted by the composer from a prose poem by Paul Aster First performances: 12, 13 September 2004 Thomas Meglioranza, Baritone, William Purvis, French horn "Works & Process", Guggenheim Museum, New York VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S) Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance] A Crimson Path (2000-2008) 26'30" Cello and Piano First performance (complete version): 16 November 2002 Christophe Roy, Cello, Pascale Berthelot, Piano Festival Why Note? Dijon, France First performance (Movement I): 10 May 2000 Rohan de Saram, Solo Cello, Druvi de Saram, Piano Rencontres d'ensembles de violoncelles, Beauvais, France This work is co-commissioned by Rencontres d'ensembles de violoncelles in Beauvais and by Why Note? Festival in Dijon INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase {score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance] Dervish (1962) 9' Piano, Percussion, Db, Stereophonic electroacoustic sound First performance: 6 April 1962 Bob James Trio Bob James, Piano, Ron Brooks, Contrabass, Bob Pozar, Percussion Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festival 1962 University of Notre Dame INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score (in preparation)] and Hire [3 11x17-inch scores needed for performance] Wise new entry DICKINSON (2019-21) 54' Baritone and Almglocken 8 Poems by Emily Dickinson First performance (complete): 27 May 2020 Jonathan Nussman, Baritone and Almglocken Wednesdays@7:00 Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater UC San Diego, La Jolla SOLO and VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S) Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] Wise new entry DICKINSON is referenced in the film FOR A REASON by Kyle Johnson at 25:41 - 29:00 DICKINSON ... THE FILM (2019-2021) 54' by Kyle Johnson in collaboration with Roger Reynolds and baritone Jonathan Nussman First showing: 6 February 2025 Guerilla Opera presents "Guerilla Underground 2025", a virtual festival from Boston MULTIMEDIA and SOLO and VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S) Wise Music Classical Hire [video] Wise new entry Dionysus (1990) 14.5' Chamber Ensemble (8 players) Fl (Picc), Cl (B-cl), Hn, Tpt, B-tbn, Perc, Pf, Db First performance: 1 July 1990 Music of Our Time, Indiana University, Bloomington New Music Ensemble, Harvey Sollberger, Conductor Commissioned by Indiana University INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score} and Hire [score, parts] Dream Mirror [SHARESPACE I] (2010) Solo Guitar, Real-time algorithmic transformation First Performance: 1 April 2011 Pablo Gómez Cano, Guitar, Jaime Oliver, Computer Musician "Music of Roger Reynolds" Centro Mexicano para la Música y Artes Sonoras Conservatorio de las Rosas Morelia, Mexico ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [4 scores needed for performance, sound files or real time computer processing, Four Real-Time Algorithms] Dream Mirror is referenced in the film FOR A REASON by Kyle Johnson at 20:30 - 22:30, 31:54 - 32:30, 39:56 - 41:07, 49:53 - 52:20 The Dream of the Infinite Rooms (1986) 24' Solo Cello, Orchestra, Quadraphonic computer processed sound 2 Fl (II = Picc), 2 Ob (II = Eh), 2 Cl (II = B-cl), 2 Bsn, 2 Hn, 2 Tpt, 2 Tbn (II = B-tbn), 2 Perc, Pf, Str First performance: 2 March 1987 Cleveland Chamber Symphony Cleveland, Ohio Regina Mushabac, Cello, Edwin London, Conductor Commissioned by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony ORCHESTRA Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance, instrumental parts, solo cello part, sound files] Dreaming (1992) 24.5' 2 Fl, Picc, 3 Ob, 3 Cl (II = E♭clb, III = B-cl), 2 Bsn, Cbsn, 3 Hn, 3 Tpt, 3 Tbn (III = B-tbn), Tba, Perc, Timp, Pf, Hp, Str, Stereophonic tape First performance: 10 January 1993 Carnegie Hall, New York City American Composers Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor American Composers Orchestra Co-Commission with funds provided by the Meet The Composer / Reader's Digest Commissioning Program ORCHESTRA Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance, parts, sound files] Eclipse [Voicespace III] MULTIMEDIA (VIDEO) VERSION (1979) 17' Electroacoustic vocal work with video and slides Quadraphonic computer generated and processed sound with video and slides Electroacoustically processed voices, Video and Images by Ed Emshwiller Text fragments by Issa, Melville, Stevens, Borges, Joyce, García Márquez Recorded Voices: Carol Plantamura, Philip Larson Recordings: Roger Reynolds Technical assistance: Loren Rush First performance with multiple performers, video, slides, film: 31 January 1980 25' First Intermedia Art Festival, Guggenheim Museum, New York City The VERSION with VIDEO was commissioned by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum MULTIMEDIA and SERIES OF WORKS and MUSIC FOR THEATER Wise Music Classical Hire [video, sound files, projections; this work has no score] [The video version and electroacoustic version share the same sound files.] Eclipse [Voicespace III] ELECTROACOUSTIC VERSION (1979) 17' Electroacoustic vocal work Quadraphonic computer generated and processed sound, Electronically processed voices Text: fragments by Issa, Melville, Stevens, Borges, Joyce, García Márquez Recorded Voices: Carol Plantamura, Philip Larson Recordings: Roger Reynolds Technical assistance: Loren Rush First performance: 18 February 1982 Symphony Space, New York City (Concert in honor of Ross Lee Finney) Commissioned by a 1976 Bicentennial Year National Endowment for the Arts Award ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Hire [sound files; this work has no score] [The video version and electroacoustic version share the same sound files.] Elegy – for Tōru Takemitsu (1996) 7' Solo Flute, Percussion, Almglocken, String Orchestra First performance: 15 May 1996 Mandeville Center for the Arts, La Jolla Sonor Ensemble, Harvey Sollberger, Flute, John Fonville, Conductor ORCHESTRA Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores, parts] Elliott (2007-2008) 11.5' String Quartet First performance: 25 January 2008 Arditti Quartet Cité de la musique, Paris Commissioned by Cité de la musique in honor of Elliott Carter's 100^th Birthday STRINGS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [score, parts] The Emperor of Ice Cream [rev. 1974] (1961-62) 15.5' (Staged) 8 Voices, Perc, Pf, Db Text: poem The Emperor of Ice-Cream by Wallace Stevens First performance staged [premiere]: 27 April 1965 Nuova Consonanza Festival, Rome, Daniele Paris, Conductor First performance without staging: 19 March 1965 20^th Century Innovations, New York City, Gunther Schuller, conductor MUSIC FOR THEATER Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [3 11x17 scores are needed for instrumentalists, 8 printed scores for singers] Epigram and Evolution (1960) 9' Solo Piano First performance: 4 March 1961 ONCE Festival, Ann Arbor, Robert Ashley, Piano PIANO Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] Fantasy for Pianist (1964) 19' Solo Piano First performance: 26 September 1965 John Tilbury, Piano Warsaw Autumn Festival Warsaw PIANO Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] Fiery Wind (1977) 17.5' 2 Fl (II = Picc), Picc, Ob, Ca, E♭cl, Cl, Bsn, Cbn, 3 Hn, 3 Tpt, 2 Tbn, B-tbn, Tba, 4 Perc, Pf, Str First performance: 13 February 1978 American Composers Orchestra Lincoln Center, New York Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor Commissioned by the Contemporary Music Society, Inc., New York ORCHESTRA Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [score, parts] FLiGHT (2012-2016) 45" MULTIMEDIA VERSION I Imagining, II Preparing, III Experiencing, and IV Perspective String Quartet, A Montage of Texts Assembled by the Composer (pre-recorded and spatialized), centering on human aspirations for flight which span centuries and cultures, Multiple projection surfaces, Real-time Algorithmic sound processing, Multichannel sound distribution, with recorded or live voices JACK Quartet Ross Karre, Visual design, Paul Hembree, Audio design Recorded speakers: Eva Barnes, Lowell Gaspar, Carla Harting, Jack Mikesell Robert Castro, Staging First performance (complete): 30-31 October 2016 Park Avenue Armory, New York FLiGHT is commissioned by the JACK Quartet with the National Gallery of Art. Partners include the James Madison University, The Phillips Collection, Mount Tremper Arts, the University of California, the Dean of Arts and Humanities at UC San Diego, the Department of Music at UC San Diego, the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder, Park Avenue Armory, the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, the San Diego Air and Space Museum, Caltech’s NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. MULTIMEDIA Wise Music Classical Purchase [FLiGHT string quartet score] and Hire [6 FLiGHT string quartet scores needed for performance, sound files or real-time computer processing, Project description including lighting and set design (forthcominng), Four Real-Time Algorithms] Wise new entry FLiGHT (2012-2016) 33' STRING QUARTET VERSION STRING QUARTET, in four movements First complete performance: 30 November 2016 JACK Quartet Boston University Concert Hall Boston, Massachusetts Commissioned by JACK string quartet STRINGS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [4 scores need for performance] FOUR ÉTUDES for Flute Quartet (1961) 7' Piccolo, 2 Flutes, Alto Flute First performance: 6 November 1961 Karen Hill, Connie Cowan, Frances Whitcomb, Anne Speer, Flutes Composers Forum Lane Hall Auditorium, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score; score includes 4 parts for performance] Wise new entry Focus a beam, emptied of thinking, outward... (1989) 11' Solo Cello First performance: 27 February 1992 Merkin Concert Hall, New York, Rohan de Saram, Cello SOLO Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] Four Real-Time Algorithms by Jacob Sundstrom, et al. (2026) The original manual was by Roger Reynolds (with Jaime E. Oliver and Paul Hembree) (2015). Technical manual for the use of software in the works of Roger Reynolds (SEASONS: Cycle 1, Dream Mirror, MARKed MUSIC, Toward Another World: LAMENT, Positings, george WASHINGTON, FLiGHT, Shifting / Drifting, ACTIONS, PERSISTENCE, CO-EXISTENCE, CO-EXISTENCE ... framed) Wise Music Classical Purchase [score Four Real-Time Algorithms manual] Wise new edition ...from behind the unreasoning mask (1974-75) 17' Trombone, Percussion (+ Assistant), Quadraphonic electroacoustic sound First performance: 29 January 1975 Fifth Annual Contemporary Music Festival, Las Vegas Ted Grove, Trombone, Jean-Charles François, Percussion, Roger Reynolds, Assistant INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [4 scores needed for performance, sound files] Gathering (1965) 10' Woodwind Quintet First performance: 12 July 1966 Holland Festival, Amsterdam, Danzi Quintet INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [5 scores needed for performance] Wise add Hire george WASHINGTON (2012-2013) 24' Orchestra, 3 Narrators, Video projection, Real-time sound processing and spatialization 2 Fl (Picc), Al-fl, 2 Ob, CA, 2 Cl, B-cl, Cbs-cl, 2 Bsn, Cbsn, 4 Hn, 3 Tpt, 2 Tbn, B-tbn, Tba, 3 Perc, Pf, Hp, Strings in traditional 5 sections Ross Karre, Videographer; Jaime Oliver, Computer Cues; Josef Kucera, Sound Design Text assembled by the composer from Washington’s diaries and correspondence First performances: 3, 4, 5 October 2013 National Symphony Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach, Conductor Clark Young, Thomas Keegan, Philip Larson, Narrators John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Washington, DC Co-commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra through a grant from the John and June Hechinger Commissioning Fund for New Orchestral Works, the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, and the University of California ORCHESTRA and MULTIMEDIA Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [5 scores needed for performance, parts, projections, sound files or real-time computer processing, Four Real-Time Algorithms] Graffiti (1965) 9' 3 Fl (II, III = Picc), 3 Ob, 3 Cl, 3 Bsn, 4 Hn, 3 Tpt, 3 Tbn, Tba, Timp, Perc, Pf, 2 Hp, Str First performance: 2 May 1965 Seattle, Washington Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Milton Katims, Conductor Commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation ORCHESTRA Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [score, parts] Here and There (2018) 36' Percussion Text from "Texts for Nothing IX" by Samuel Beckett First performance: 27 February 2019 Steven Schick, Percussion Conrad Prebys Concert Hall La Jolla, California PERCUSSION and SOLO Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] Here and There is referenced in the film FOR A REASON by Kyle Johnson at 7:21 - 12:10, 34:57 - 37:40, 53:00 - 53:45 ILLUSION (2005-2006) 60' 2 Actors, Baritone, High Soprano Solo Picc, Solo Cl, Solo Vc, Chamber Ensemble, 8-channel computer processed sound, Staging Text: assembled by the composer from Aeschylus and Euripides First performance: 9 May 2006 Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group Hila Plitmann, Soprano, Troy Cook, Baritone, Melinda Page Hamilton, Speaker, Tim Monsion, Speaker Josef Kucera, Richard Bugg, Sound projection, Pei Xiang, Musical assistant The in-hall performance was preceded by a real-time multichannel environment in the foyers before and following the performance Sarah Jackson, Piccolo, Lorin Levee, Clarinet, David Garrett, Cello Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles Commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group and The Koussevitzky Music Foundation, and supported by The Rockefeller Foundation MAP Fund and the University of California San Diego VOICE(S) and INSTRUMENT(S) and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [9 scores needed for performance, parts, sound files] The Image Machine (2005) 25' Real-time interactive computer music Roger Reynolds, Computer, Pei Xiang, Musical assistant First performance: 6 October 2005 Roger Reynolds, computer Ultima Festival, Oslo ELECTROACOUSTIC Wise Music Classical Hire [Reynolds computer paradigm] Wise new entry imagE/cello (2007) 5' Solo Cello First performance: 3 March 2007 Alexis Descharmes, Cello 30 ans > 30 créations Cité de la musique, Paris SERIES OF WORKS and STRINGS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] imagE/cello (2007) 5' & imAge/cello (2007) 4.5' First performance of the pair: 2 March 2010 Alexis Descharmes, Cello La Maison Française, Washington, DC A part of CHANGES: Seasons Festival in Washington, DC May be performed separately. Wise Music Classical Purchase [score, imagE/cello] Wise Music Classical Purchase [score, imAge/cello] imAge/cello (2007) 4.5' Solo Cello First performance: 14 May 2007 Alexis Descharmes, Cello Rencontres d'Ensembles de Violoncelles Beauvais, France SERIES OF WORKS and STRINGS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] imagE/contrabass (2008) 5' Solo Contrabass First performance: 23 November 2008 Mark Dresser, Contrabass The Stone, New York City STRINGS and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] imagE/contrabass (2008) 5' & imAge/contrabass (2010) 7' Solo Contrabass First performance of the pair: 24 March 2010 Mark Dresser, Contrabass New Music for Contrabass Mark Dresser, Marc Marder, Ensemble Terra Nova Hawai'i Contrabass Festival Fresh Café, 831 Queen Street Honolulu, Hawai'i May be performed separately. STRINGS and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score, imagE/contrabass] Wise Music Classical Purchase [score, imAge/contrabass] imAge/contrabass (2010) 7' Solo Contrabass First performance of: 24 March 2010 Mark Dresser, Contrabass New Music for Contrabass Mark Dresser, Marc Marder, Ensemble Terra Nova Hawai'i Contrabass Festival Fresh Café, 831 Queen Street Honolulu, Hawai'i STRINGS and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] imagE/flute (2009) 8' Solo Flute First performance: 13 March 2013 Rachel Beetz, Flute PASSAGE 9 performance by Roger Reynolds Conrad Prebys Concert Hall La Jolla, California SOLO and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] imAge/flute (2014) 6.5' Solo Flute First performance: 19 November 2014 Rachel Beetz, Flute XI FESTIVAL Internacional de MÚSICA NUEVA, Monterrey 2014 Teatro del Centro de las Artes Monterrey, México SOLO and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] imagE/piano (2007-2008) 2' Solo Piano First performance [imagE/piano]: 8 December 2007 Eric Huebner, Piano Chelsea Art Museum, New York City PIANO and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] imAge/piano (2007-2008) 4' Solo Piano First performance: 20 May 2008 Eric Huebner, Piano Tenri Cultural Institute, New York City PIANO and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] imagE/guitar (2009) 6.5' & imAge/guitar (2009) 8.5' Solo Guitar First performance of the pair: 3 March 2011 Pablo Gómez Cano, Guitar The Phillips Collection Washington, DC May be performed separately. SOLO and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score, imagE/guitar] Wise Music Classical Purchase [score, imAge/guitar] imagE/viola (2012) 6.5' Solo Viola First performance: 6 December 2012 John Pickford Richards, Viola John Knowles Paine Concert Hall Harvard University, Cambridge STRINGS and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] imagE/viola (2012) 6.5' & imAge/viola (2014) 5' Solo Viola First performance: 5 April 2015 Mark Menzies, Solo Viola The Beast, California Institute of the Arts Valencia, California May be perforrmed separately. STRINGS and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [imagE/viola score] Wise Music Classical Purchase [imAge/viola score] imAge/viola (2014) 5' Solo Viola First performance: 5 April 2015 Mark Menzies, Solo Viola The Beast, California Institute of the Arts Valencia, California STRINGS and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] imagE/violin (2015) 5.5' Solo Violin First performance: 29 September 2015 Irvine Arditti, Solo Violin REDCAT, CalArts Downtown Los Angeles, California STRINGS and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] imagE/violin (2015) 5.5' & imAge/violin (2015) 6.5' Solo Violin First performance: 29 September 2015 Irvine Arditti, Solo Violin REDCAT – Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater Los Angeles, California May be performed separately. STRINGS and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score, imagE/violin] Wise Music Classical Purchase [score, imAge/violin] imAge/violin (2015) 6.5' Solo Violin First performance: 29 September 2015 Irvine Arditti, Solo Violin REDCAT, CalArts Downtown Los Angeles, California STRINGS and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] I/O: A Ritual for 23 Performers (1970) 35-70' (Staged) 9 Female Voices, 9 Male Mimes, 2 Fl, Cl, 2 Technician/Performers, live electronic processing, projections First performance: 24 January 1971 Encounters Series, Pasadena Commissioned by the Pasadena Museum of Art and the California Institute of Technology MULTIMEDIA Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [5 scores needed for performance, 3 parts for instruments and electronics are included in the score, projections] Irvine @ 50! (2003) String Quartet Graphic Score with commentary (forthcoming) First performance (violin, viola, cello): 8 February 2003 Graeme Jennings, Dov Scheindlin, Rohan de Saram Spitalfields Synagogue, London STRINGS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] Wise new entry Music for Chekhov's Ivanov (1991) 50' 8-channel computer processed sound First performance: 3 January 1992 Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan Tadashi Suzuki Theatre Company Commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation MAP Fund and Art Tower Mito MUSIC FOR THEATER Wise Music Classical Hire [sound files; there is no score] Wise new entry The Ivanov Suite (1991) 32'20" Quadraphonic computer processed sound (originally in an 8-channel format) I. Trumpet Dream, II. The Scream, III. Religious Music, IV. The Brides, V. Piccolo Dream, VI. Monogatari ("Stories"), VII. Primitive Music First performance: 5 July 1992 Computer Music Conference/Festival, Delphi, Greece Commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation ELECTROACOUSTIC Wise Music Classical Hire [sound files; this work has no score] Wise new entry JOURNEY (2020-2023) 18" Solo Oboe and Chamber Orchestra Fl (Picc), Cl, B-cl, Bsn, Horn, Trp, Tbn, Perc, Pf (concert grand), Vln, Vla, Vc, Db First performance: 4 May 2023 Jacqueline Leclair, Solo Oboe Ekkozone and Esbjerg Ensemble, Mathias Reumert, Conductor Offbeat Music Festival Koncertkirken Copenhagen, Denmark Commissioned by Jacqueline Leclair New York premiere: 22 May 2025 Jacqueline Leclair, Solo Oboe Orchestra of the League of Composers, Louis Karchin, conductor Cary Hall, Dimenna Center for Classical Music in Manhattan New York SOLO WITH ENSEMBLE The Ekkozone/Divine Art Recordings Group CD of JOURNEY won the 2024 Danish Radio Album of the Year. Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [score, instrumental parts, solo oboe part] JUSTICE (1999-2001) 49'25" Actress, Soprano, Percussion, Multichannel computer sound, Staging Text: assembled by the composer from Aeschylus and Euripides First performance (revised version) [premiere]: 30 November 2001 Donnah Welby, Actress, Carmen Pelton, Soprano, Steven Schick, Percussion, Josef Kucera, Robert Pitt, Peter Otto, Spatialization and dissemination, Henry Fonte, Director, Martha Mountain, Lighting, K Williams, Manager, Harvey Sollberger, Musical Advisor The Great Hall of the Library of Congress in the Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, DC Commissioned by the Julian E. Berla and Freda Hauptman Berla Fund in the Library of Congress for the celebration of the LOC's Bicentennial in 2000 First performances (first version): 21, 22 May 1999 Lauren Flanagan, Soprano; Ellen Lauren, Actress; Steven Schick, Percussion; Josef Kucera, Sound Engineering; Peter Otto and Timothy Labor, Real-time spatialization; Tadashi Suzuki, Partial staging, Costumes, Lighting, Direction AT THE EDGE, an evening at the 2nd Theatre Olympics, Shizuoka, Japan MUSIC FOR THEATER and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [5 scores needed for performance, sound files] JUSTICE: The Arias 50' Tiffany DuMouchelle, Soprano, Steve Solook, Percussion, Paul Hembree, Computer Musician First performance: 24 March 2016 Slee Hall, University at Buffalo - SUNY MUSIC FOR THEATER and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score (forthcoming)] and Hire [3 scores needed for performance, sound files] Wise new entry KNOWING / NOT KNOWING (2022-2024) 80' Narrator, recorded voices, mixed chorus, 2 percussion, trombone, actor 8-channel sound and video projections First performance: 17 March 2024 UC San Diego Park & Market San Diego, California Kyle Johnson, filmmaker and video design Jacob Sundstrom, electronics and sound design Robert Castro, stage director Steven Schick, conductor Juan Carlos Acosta, choir conductor Leslie Ann Leytham, creative producer Performers: Aiyun Huang, percussion Berk Schneider, trombone Kosuke Matsuda, percussion Jesse Perez, actor SACRA / PROFANA, choir INTERMEDIA Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [5 scores needed for performance, parts, sound files, projections] Kokoro (1991-1992) 18' Solo Violin First performance: 30 January 1993 Le Botanique, Brussels, Irvine Arditti, Violin Commissioned by Irvine Arditti with funds from the British Arts Council SOLO Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] last things, I think, to think about (1994) 66' Bass Baritone, Piano, Stereophonic computer processed sound, optional 35mm slide projections of new Ashbery text: Debit Night I. I Had Thought, II. The Painter, III. Sonnet, IV. At North Farm, V. Landscape, VI. Faust, VII. Hotel Lautréamont, VIII. Myrtle, IX. Illustration (I and II); and Debit Night, a poem commissioned for this composition and recorded by Mr. Ashbery [The following can be performed out of context: Sonnet, At North Farm, Faust, Myrtle, Illustration I, Illustration II.] First performance: 17 November 1994 Kathryn Bache Miller Theatre, New York Philip Larson, Bass Baritone, Aleck Karis, Piano Commissioned by Meet The Composer Reader's Digest Commission Program VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S) Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [3 scores needed for performance, projections, sound files] Less Than Two (1978) 22' 2 Pf, 2 Perc, Quadraphonic computer generated sound First performance: 23 February 1979 Library of Congress, Washington, DC James Freeman, Gilbert Kalish, Pianos, Raymond DesRoches and Richard Fitz, Percussion Commissioned by DesRoches, Fitz, Freeman, Kalish INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [5 scores needed for performance, sound files] MARKed MUSIC [SHARESPACE II] (2011) 18' Solo Contrabass, Real-time algorithmic transformation First performance: 25th August 2011 Mark Dresser, Contrabass, Jaime Oliver, Computer Musician The Stone, New York City ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance, sound files or real-time computer processing, Four Real-Time Algorithms] Masks (1965) 25' 8-part Mixed Chorus, Orchestra 2 Fl (II = Picc), 2 Ob, 2 Cl (II = E♭clb), 2 Bsn, 4 Hn, 2 Tpt, 2 Tbn, Tba, Timp, Perc, 2 Pf, Str Texts culled from the works of Herman Melville, principally Moby Dick and Mardi As yet unperformed (2026). ORCHESTRA Wise Music Classical Purchase [score forthcoming] [no instrumental or vocal materials exist 2026] A Merciful Coincidence [Voicespace II] THEATER VERSION (1976) 36' Music theater for 3 vocalists with Electroacoustic montage Text: extract from Watt, a novel by Samuel Beckett First performance with vocalists: 9 June 1976 Festival International de Musique Expérimentale, Bourges Extended Vocal Techniques Ensemble Commissioned by a 1976 Bicentennial Year National Endowment for the Arts Award MUSIC FOR THEATER and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [4 scores needed for performance, sound files] WISE new entry A Merciful Coincidence [Voicespace II] ELECTROACOUSTIC VERSION (1976) 35'47" Quadraphonic vocal montage Text: extract from Watt, a novel by Samuel Beckett First performance electroacoustic version: 11 December 1976 Currents Series, Theatre Vanguard, Los Angeles Commissioned by a 1976 Bicentennial Year National Endowment for the Arts Award ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Hire [sound files; this work has no score] WISE new entry Mistral (1984-1985) 21' 2 Tpt, 2 Tbn, 2 Hn, Amp Hpd, 2 Vln, 2 Vc, 2 Db [12 intruments and amplified harpsichord] First performance: 12 February 1985 Symphony Space, New York City The Group for Contemporary Music, Harvey Sollberger, Conductor Commissioned by The Group for Contemporary Music and the Lontano Ensemble of London, Odaline de la Martinez, Director INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores, parts] Mosaic (1962) 10' Solo Flute (Piccolo), Piano First performance [premiere]: 10 February 1963 Karen Hill, Flute (Piccolo), Bob James, Piano ONCE FESTIVAL Ann Arbor, Michigan SOLO Wise Music Classical Purchase [score; flute part included with score] not forgotten (2007-2010) 27' in six movements: Giverny, Tōru, Elliott, Ryoanji, Iannis, Now String Quartet First performance: 23 April 2010 Arditti Quartet Wittener Tage Witten, Germany Commissioned by the Siemens Foundation with the cooperation of the West German Radio [movements 2, 3, 4, 5 can be played in any order] STRINGS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score set, a set comprises 6 separate movements] and Hire [4 score sets needed for performance] Not Only Night (1988) 10' Soprano, Fl (Picc), E♭clb (B-cl), Pf, Vl, Vc, Stereophonic computer processed sound Text: O. E. Hartleben's translations from Pierrot Lunaire by Albert Giraud of Abend, and Morgen First performance: 7 November 1988 Monday Evening Concerts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art New York New Music Ensemble, Christine Schadeberg, Soprano, Robert Black, Conductor Commissioned by the Schoenberg Institute VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S) Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire[3 scores needed for performance, parts, sound files] Odyssey (originally titled Entre le galet et la dune) (1989-93) 75' Mezzo Soprano, Bass Baritone, Ensemble (16 players), 8-channel [4 + 4] computer processed sound, lighting Fl (Picc), Ob, Cl, Bsn (Cbsn), Hn, Tpt, Tbn, B-tbn, 3 Perc, Pf, 2 Vl, Vc, Db Texts by Samuel Beckett: I. they come, II. what would I do, III. my way is in the sand, IV. section IX. from Texts for Nothing First performance: 17 June 1993 Georges Pompidou Center, Paris Ensemble Intercontemporain, David Robertson, Conductor Commissioned by Ircam VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S) Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [4 scores needed for performance (conductor, tech, soprano, baritone), parts, sound files] Of this Word’s being … heard / not heard (2014) 10' Soprano, Flute, Piano, Percussion, 26 slides Text: from the writings of Heraclitus, as assembled by the composer First performance: 20 September 2014 Ensemble Echoi First American Performance 29 September 2014 Alice Teyssier, Soprano, Ine Vanoeveren, Flute, Brendan Nguyen, Piano, Jonathan Hepfer, Percussion Musica Sacra Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands Commissioned by Musica Sacra Maastricht INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [5 scores needed for performance, projections] Only Now, and Again (1977) 11' Woodwinds, Brass, Piano, Percussion First performance: 6 May 1977 National Association of Wind Ensembles NIU Wind Ensemble, Larry Livingston, conductor Milwaukee, Wisconsin Commissioned by the Fromm Foundation at Harvard and the Northern Illinois University Wind Ensemble INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [score, parts] On the Balance of Things (1996-98) 24' Solo Oboe, Fl (Picc), Cl (B-cl), Trp, Perc, Vln, Vc, Stereophonic computer processed sound, DANCE component (optional) Text: fragments from four poems by Elizabeth Bishop I. A Summer's Day, II. Questions of Travel, III. Anaphora, IV. The Monument Recorded voice: Lucinda Childs Text: fragments from four poems by Elizabeth Bishop First performance DANCE VERSION: 16 January 1998 Cité de la Musique, Paris Ensemble Intercontemporain, László Hadady, Oboe, Lucinda Childs, Dancer/Choreographer, Anne Manson, Conductor Commissioned by Meet The Composer for the Lucinda Childs Dance Company SOLO WITH ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance, parts, sound files] ‘Ō‘ō (2018) 20' Flute and String Quartet Robert Aitken, Flute Iris String Quartet Yolanda Bruno, Mark Lee, Rory McLeod, Leana Rutt First performance: 27 May 2018 New Music Concerts event on 21C Festival The Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, Canada Commissioned by New Music Concerts and the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance, with the financial assistance of The Koerner Foundation; The Merryweather Fund; Austin and Beverly Clarkson; Camille Watts; Véronique Lacroix and Paul Taub. INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [5 scores needed for perfomance] OPPOrTuniTy (2012) Solo Piano Text: "John" First performance: 9 September 2012 Margaret Leng Tan, Pianist/Voice National Gallery of Art, East Building Atrium Washington, DC Commissioned by the John Cage Centennial Festival Washington, DC PIANO and SOLO Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] The Palace [Voicespace IV] (1978-80) 16' (Modest staging) Bass-Baritone, Quadraphonic computer generated sound Text: poem The Palace by Jorge Luis Borges First performance: 28 February 1981 Contemporary Music Festival 1981, CalArts, Los Angeles Philip Larson, Bass-Baritone Commissioned by a 1976 Bicentennial National Endowment for the Arts Award SOLO and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance, sound files] PERFORMING "PASSAGE" (2009) This Performing Score is a 37-page publication that explains how an individual, or a group of any size, can create an intermedia PASSAGE event of the same character as those that composer Reynolds has performed numerous times. INTERMEDIA and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score: Performing PASSAGE] PASSAGE 1: "Responsibility, Alliances, Collaboration, Realization, Resource, Mastery, Reward, Futures, Chance, Serendipity, Loyalty" (referencing Takahashi and Xenakis, Carter, Arditti, Weisberg, and Takemitsu) (2009) Intermedia Performance by Roger Reynolds Performance date: 1 December 2009 Mike Gao, Technical support 204 inFocus Seminar, Experimental Theater University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California INTERMEDIA and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score for "Performing PASSAGE". There are no scores for any of the unique PASSAGE events Reynolds performs.] See the website's INTERMEDIA page for documentation on PASSAGES 1-13 PERSISTENCE [SHARESPACE VI] (2019-2023) 30' ACOUSTIC VERSION Cello, Computer musician, sound files First performance: 30 March 2023 Peter Ko, cellist Jacob Sundstrom, computer musician IDEAS Event in the Auditorium for California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology La Jolla, California ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance, sound files or real-time computer processing, Four Real-Time Algorithms] Wise new entry PERSISTENCE is referenced in the film FOR A REASON by Kyle Johnson at 14:29 - 19:08 PERSISTENCE (2019-2023) 30' – THE FILM VIDEO VERSION Alexis Descharmed, cellist Art Film by Kyle Johnson with Roger Reynolds MULTIMEDIA Wise Music Classical Hire [video] Wise new entry Personae (1989-1990) 26' Solo Violin, Chamber Ensemble, Stereophonic or Quadraphonic computer processed sound Fl (Picc), Cl (B-cl), Hn, B-tbn, Perc, Pf, Vla, Vc, Db First performance: 28 March 1991 Kathryn Bache Miller Theatre, New York János Négyesy, Violin, Sonor Ensemble, Rand Steiger, Conductor SOLO WITH ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores, parts, solo violin part, sound files] Piano Études, Book I, complete (2010-11) 29' 1. Barrages 2. Alternation 3. Web 4. Mercurial 5. Persistence 6. Fixities For Solo Pianist or colllaboratively with one or two others First Performance: 11 April 2014 Eric Huebner, Stephen Gosling, Steven Beck, Pianists (multiple performances of individual etudes) Barge Music/Talea New York City Commissioned by Fromm Music Foundation PIANO Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [1, 2 or 3 scores] Piano Études, Book II complete (2016-17) 50' 7. Migration 8. Insistence 9. Rips 10. Concatenation 11. Calligraphy 12. Fields For Solo Pianist or colllaboratively with one or two others First performance Book II (complete): 26 March 2024 Reynolds 90th Birthday Concert Eric Huebner, Pianist Slee Hall University at Buffalo PIANO Wise Music Classical Purchase [score]and Hire [1, 2 or 3 scores] Ping (1968) 22' Fl, Perc (Harmonium, Bowed Tam Tam, Bowed Cymbal), Pf, 35mm slide projections by Karen Reynolds, 16mm film by the composer (1968) as restored by Ross Karre (2011), Quadraphonic electroacoustic sound, Live electronic processing Text: the short story Ping by Samuel Beckett Special objects for performance First performance: 5 June 1968 Orchestral Space '68, Tokyo Roger Reynolds, Music and Film Karen Reynolds, Projections (varied, geometric, colored forms enhance text slides) Roger Reynolds, Piano, Karen Reynolds, Flute, Hiroshi Kumagai, Percussion Seikiji Maro, Film Actor, Kazuo Kato, Camera man Dedicated to: Robert Ashley, Junosuke Okuyama, Michael Von Biel Originally published in SOURCE Magazine, No. 6 MULTIMEDIA Wise Music Classical Purchase [score forthcoming] and Hire [3 scores, parts, video, projections, special objects] A Portrait of Vanzetti (1962-63) 21' Narrator, 2 Fl (2 Picc), Cl, 2 Hn, Tpt, Tbn, 2 Perc, 4-channel electroacoustic sound Text edited by the composer from the letters of Bartolomeo Vanzetti First performance: 16 February 1963 ONCE Festival, Ann Arbor Jack O'Brien, Narrator, Donald Scavarda, Conductor VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S) Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [12 scores (conductor, narrator, techician, 9 musicians), sound files] Positings (2012-2013) 25' Chamber Quintet and Computer Musician Flute/Piccolo, French horn, Violin, Cello, Piano, Real time sound spatialization First performance: 2 March 2013 Southwest Chamber Music Jeff von der Schmidt, Artistic Director Larry Kaplan, Flute/Piccolo, Andrew Pelletier, French horn, Lorenz Gamma, Violin, Peter Jacobson, Cello, Ming Tsu, Piano, Paul Hembree, Computer Ambassador Auditorium, The Colburn School, Los Angeles Commissioned for the 25th anniversary of Southwest Chamber Music by The James Irvine Foundation and the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [7 scores needed for performance, sound files or real-time computer processing, Four Real-Time Algorithms] Process and Passion (2002) 22' Violin, Cello, Computer musician Computer processed sound, Real-time computer spatialization (optional) First Performance: 15 November 2002 Nicolas Miribel, Violin, Alexis Descharmes, Cello, Frédéric Voisin, Technical support Festival Why Note? Dijon, France Commissioned by Festival Why Note? INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [3 scores needed for performance, sound files] The Promises of Darkness (1975) 22' Fl, Cl, Bsn, Tpt, Hn, Tbn, Perc, Pf, Vln, Vc, Db First performance: 8 January 1976 Lincoln Center, New York City Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, Arthur Weisberg, Conductor Commissioned by Arthur Weisberg INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [score, parts] Quick Are the Mouths of Earth (1964-65) 19' 3 Fl (3 Picc), Ob, Tpt, Tbn, B-tbn, 2 Perc, Pf, 3 Vc First performance: 24 November 1965 Lincoln Center, New York City Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, Arthur Weisberg, Conductor INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [score, parts] The Red Act Arias (1996-1997) 47' Orchestra, Chorus, Narrator, 8-channel computer processed and spatialized vocal, instrumental, and environmental sound 4 Fl (III, IV = Picc), 3 Ob, CA, 2 Cl, E♭cl (Cl), B-cl, 3 Bsn, Cbsn, 4 Hn, 4 Tpt, 3 Tbn, B-tbn, Tba, 4 Perc, Pf, Cel, Hp, Str Text edited by the composer from Richmond Lattimore's translation of Agamemnon, by Aeschylus First performance: 4 August 1997 Royal Albert Hall, London BBC Symphony Orchetra and Singers, Harriet Walker, Narrator, Leonard Slatkin, Conductor Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for the BBC Promenade Concerts ORCHESTRA and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [3 scores needed for performance, parts, sound files] The Red Act Arias Suite 2001 (1997-2001) 15' Multichannel computer processed sound First performance (Final Version): 8 May 2001 Warren Lecture Halls – Studio A, University of California San Diego First performance (1st Version): 4 May 1998 Programa Musicistas, Instituto de Artes da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Hire [sound files, this work has no score] SANCTUARY I (20'), II (32'), III (20') (2003-2007) 75' Percussion Quartet, Real-time computer processed and spatialized sound, Lighting design First performance of full work [including SANCTUARY Part III: Song]: 18 November 2007 I.M. Pei's East Wing Atrium, National Gallery of Art Steven Schick and red fish blue fish ensemble, Justin DeHart, Ross Karre, Fabio Oliveira, Greg Stuart, Percussionists Josef Kucera, Peter Otto, Jacob David Sudol, Sound projection Ian Saxton, Musical assistant, Gordon Anson and Robert Johnson, Lighting design of the National Gallery of Art, John Conway, Sound systems at the National Gallery of Art Presented by Contemporary Music Forum, Steven Antosca, Artistic Director and Concert Producer (logistical planning and consulting) at the National Gallery of Art, East Wing Atrium, Washington, DC A special program associated with the exhibition "Let the World In: Prints by Robert Rauschenberg from the National Gallery of Art and Related Collections" at the National Gallery of Art, and made possible by Lockheed Martin Corporation. SANCTUARY is co-commissioned by red fish blue fish percussion ensemble, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Contemporary Music Forum, and the Randy Hostetler Living Room Fund. Pre-premiere performance full work: 16 November 2007 National Gallery of Art] [All 3 parts can be performed independently.] PERCUSSION Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [5 scores needed for performance, sound files or real time computer processing, Four Real-Time Algorithms] BY MOVEMENT SANCTUARY Part I: Chatter/Clatter (2007) 20' First performance: 7 June 2007 Steven Schick, Percussionist Ian Saxton, Algorithmic computer sound June in Buffalo Festival SUNY Buffalo [Chatter/Clatter can be played independently.] PERCUSSION Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance, sound files or real-time computer processing, Four Real-Time Algorithms] SANCTUARY Part II: Oracle (2003-2004) 32' First performance: 4 June 2004 red fish blue fish: Gustavo Aguilar, Rob Esler, Don Nichols, Mathias Reumert, Percussion, Pei Xiang, David Camargo, Joseph Sarlo, Computer processing, Chris Parry, Lighting design Warren Lecture Halls, Studio A UCSD, La Jolla [Oracle can be performed independently.] PERCUSSION Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [5 scores needed for performance, sound files, Four Real-Time Algorithms] SANCTUARY Part III: Song First performance: 18 November 2007 Steven Schick, percussion National Gallery of Art [Song can be performed independently.] PERCUSSION Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance, sound files, Four Real Time Algorithms] SEASONS: Cycle I (2009-2010) 50' Flute, Bass Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Percussion, Real-time computer sound processing or sound files First performance complete Cycle 1: 7 March 2010 Lisa Cella, Flute, Alexis Descharmes, Cello, Ross Karre, Percussion, Lina Bahn, Violin, Bill Kalinkos, Bass Clarinet, Ross Karre, Percussion, Jaime Oliver, Real-time computer sound processing National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Seasons: Cycle 1 is co-commissioned by New Music Concerts, the Randy Hofstetler Living Room Fund, and the National Gallery of Art Movements may be performed separately. INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [4 scores needed for performance, sound files or real time computer processing, Four Real-Time Algorithms] BY MOVEMENT Cycle I SEASONS: Cycle I a: Of Life and Spring 16'30" Flute, Cello, Percussion, Real time computer sound processing or sound files First performance [Of Life and Spring]: 7 May 2009 John Fonville, Flute, Gabrielle Athayle, Cello, Steven Schick, Percussion, Jaime Oliver, Real time computer sound processing Conrad Prebys Music Center, La Jolla SEASONS: Cycle 1 is co-commissioned by New Music Concerts, the Randy Hofstetler Living Room Fund, and the National Gallery of Art INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [4 scores needed for performance, sound files or real time computer processing, Four Real-Time Algorithms] SEASONS: Cycle I b: Understand: Nothing 9'30" Violin, Bass Clarinet, Percussion, Real time computer sound processing or sound files First performance [Understanding Nothing]: 7 March 2010 Lina Bahn, Violin, Bill Kalinkos, Bass Clarinet, Ross Karre, Percussion, Jaime Oliver, Real-time computer sound processing The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC SEASONS: Cycle I is co-commissioned by New Music Concerts, the Randy Hofstetler Living Room Fund, and the National Gallery of Art INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase and Hire [4 scores needed for performance, sound files or real-time computer processing, Four Real-Time Algorithms] SEASONS: Cycle I c: With Awe And Tenderness 6'45" Violin, Bass Clarinet, Percussion, Real-time computer sound processing or sound files First Performance [With Awe and Tenderness]: 7 March 2010 Lina Bahn, Violin, Bill Kalinkos, Bass Clarinet, Ross Karre, Percussion, Jaime Oliver, Real-time computer sound processing National Gallery of Art, DC SEASONS: Cycle I is co-commissioned by New Music Concerts, the Randy Hofstetler Living Room Fund, and the National Gallery of Art INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [4 scores needed for performance, sound files or real-time computer processing, Four Real-Time Algorithms] Seasons: Cycle I d: A Mind of Winter 16' Flute, Cello, Percussion, Real-time computer sound processing or sound files First performance: 29 March 2009 New Music Concerts Ensemble Jaime Oliver, Real-time computer sound processing "Roger Reynolds and His Protégés" Isabel Bader Theatre, Toronto, Canada SEASONS: Cycle I is co-commissioned by New Music Concerts, the Randy Hofstetler Living Room Fund, and the National Gallery of Art INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [4 scores required for performance, sound files or real-time computer processing, Four Real-Time Algorithms] SEASONS: Cycle II (2010-2012) 30' Soprano, Cl, Ob, Bsn, Tbn, Pf, Vl Text assembled by the composer from works by Borges, Joyce, Miłosz, Stevens, Strand First performance complete Cycle II: 14 July 2011 Susan Naruki, Soprano, Alarm Will Sound ensemble, Alan Pierson, Conductor Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts MIZZOU New Music Summer Festival Columbia, Missouri Commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts Movements may be performed separately. VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S) Wise Musical Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [5 scores needed for performance] Wise new entry BY MOVEMENT Cycle II SEASONS: Cycle II a: What's To Come 7' Soprano, Cl, Ob, Pf, Vl Text assembled by the composer from works by Borges, Joyce, Miłosz, Stevens, Strand First performance: 14 July 2011 Susan Naruki, Soprano, Alarm Will Sound ensemble, Alan Pierson, Conductor Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts MIZZOU New Music Summer Festival Columbia, Missouri VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S) Wise Musical Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [5 scores needed for performance] Wise new entry SEASONS: Cycle II b: Surprised Accords 7'30" Soprano, Cl, Ob, Pf, Vl Text assembled by the composer from works by Borges, Joyce, Miłosz, Stevens, Strand First performance: 14 July 2011 Susan Naruki, Soprano, Alarm Will Sound ensemble, Alan Pierson, Conductor Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts MIZZOU New Music Summer Festival Columbia, Missouri VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S) Wise Musical Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [5 scores needed for performance] Wise new entry SEASONS: Cycle II c: Something Resides... 5'30" Soprano, Ob, Bsn, Tbn, Pf Text assembled by the composer from works by Borges, Joyce, Miłosz, Stevens, Strand First performance: 14 July 2011 Susan Naruki, Soprano, Alarm Will Sound ensemble, Alan Pierson, Conductor Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts MIZZOU New Music Summer Festival Columbia, Missouri VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S) Wise Musical Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [5 scores needed for performance] Wise new entry SEASONS: Cycle II d: When They Were Gone 8'30" Soprano, Ob, Bsn, Tbn, Pf Text assembled by the composer from works by Borges, Joyce, Miłosz, Stevens, Strand First performance: 14 July 2011 Susan Naruki, Soprano, Alarm Will Sound ensemble, Alan Pierson, Conductor Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts MIZZOU New Music Summer Festival Columbia, Missouri VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S) Wise Musical Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [5 scores needed for performance] Wise new entry TITLE SUMMARY CYCLE I and II SEASONS: Cycle I & II (2009-2012) Cycle I a: Of Life and Spring Flute, Cello, Percussion, Real-time computer sound processing Cycle I b: Understand: Nothing Violin, Bass Clarinet, Percussion, Real-time computer sound processing Cycle I c: With Awe and Tenderness Violin, Bass Clarinet, Percussion, Real-time computer sound processing Cycle I d: A Mind of Winter Flute, Cello, Percussion, Real-time computer sound processing INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Cycle II a: What's To Come Soprano, Cl, Ob, Pf, Vl Cycle II b: Surprised Accords Soprano, Cl, Ob, Pf, Vl Cycle II c: Something Resides... Soprano, Ob, Bsn, Tbn, Pf Cycle II d: When They Were Gone Soprano, Ob, Bsn, Tbn, Pf VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S) Seeking... (2026) Solo Trombone in process Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] Wise new entry ...the serpent-snapping eye... (1978) 20' Tpt, Perc, Pf, Quadraphonic computer synthesized sound First performance: 31 January 1979 Mandeville Center for the Arts, La Jolla, Sonor Ensemble, Edwin Harkins, Trumpet, Jean-Charles François, Percussion, Cecil Lytle, Piano National Endowment for the Arts Award ELECTROACOUSTIC and INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [4 scores needed for performance, sound files] Shadowed Narrative (1978-81) 30' Cl, Pf, Vln, Vc First performance: 29 March 1982 Carnegie Recital Hall, New York City The Da Capo Chamber Players National Endowment for the Arts Award INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [4 scores needed for performance Shifting / Drifting [SHARESPACE IV] (2015) 23'37" Solo Violin, Real-time algorithmic transformation First performance: 25 September 2015 Irvine Arditti, Violin, Paul Hembree, Computer Musician ArtPower Experimental Theater Conrad Prebys Music Center La Jolla, California ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [sound files or real-time computer processing, Four Real-Time Algorithms] Shifting / Drifting is referenced in the film FOR A REASON by Kyle Johnson at 2:48 - 4:30, 57:45 - 1:01:55 SKETCHBOOK *(for The Unbearable Lightness of Being)* (1985) 30' Low female voice accompanying herself at the piano, Real time computer processing Text edited by the composer from the novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera First performance: 14 May 1985 Symphony Space, New York, Joan La Barbara SOLO Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance] SKETCHBOOK is referenced in the film FOR A REASON by Kyle Johnson at 44:11 - 47:31 SLEIGHT of HAND (2025) 20' Percussion Kosuke Matsuda, percussionist First performance: 14 April 2025 Conrad Prebys Music Center Recital Hall University of California San Diego PERCUSSION and SOLO Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] Wise new entry String Quartet 1961 13' First Performance: 31 July 1961 Tanglewood Music Festival Lenox String Quartet STRINGS Wise Music Classical Purchase [4 scores needed for performance] Still [Voicespace I] (1975) 21'35" Electroacoustic vocal work Quadraphonic electroacoustic sound Text from The Wanderings of Cain by Samuel Taylor Coleridge First performance: 27 October 1976 Sixth Annual Contemporary Music Festival, Las Vegas Commissioned by a 1976 Bicentennial Year National Endowment for the Arts Award ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Hire [sound files; this work has no score] Submerged Memories (2005-2006) 22' Narrator, B-cl, Vln, Elect Gtr, Perc, Electroacoustic processing Text: from W. G. Sebald's Vertigo and The Rings of Saturn as translated from the German by Michael Hulse First performances (without visuals): 31 March and 1 April 2006 The Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-Acoustic Band with Tenor/Narrator John Duykers Project Artaud Theater, San Francisco Commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation for The Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-Acoustic Band Visual projections: Leonardo da Vinci's The Annuciation and Portrait of Ginevra de' Benci and Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson First performance with visual components: 20 April 2013 Philip Larson, Narrator, Leah Asher, Violin, Curt Miller, Bass Clarinet, Pablo Gómez Cano, Electric Guitar, Dustin Donahue, Percussion Image and sonic montages, Paul Hembree Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts & Sciences Calit2 Theater, Atkinson Hall La Jolla, California INTERMEDIA and VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S) Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [6 scores needed for performance, projections, sound files or real time computer processing, Four Real-Time Algorithms] Summer Island (Islands from Archipelago: I) (1984) 11'30" Solo Oboe, Quadraphonic computer processed sound First performance: 7 November 1984 Interlink Festival, Tokyo, James Ostryniec, Oboe Commissioned by Randolph S. Rothschild SOLO Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [score, sound files] Symphony[Myths] (1990) 21' 4 Fl (III, IV = Picc), 4 Ob (IV = Ca), 3 Cl (III = E♭clb), B-cl, 4 Bsn (IV = Cbsn), 4 Hn, 4 Tpt, 3 Tbn, B-tbn, Tba, Perc, Pf, Hp, Str First performance: 25 October 1990 Suntory Hall, Tokyo Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kotaro Sato, Conductor Commissioned by Suntory Hall ORCHESTRA Wise Music Classical Hire Symphony[The Stages of Life] (1991-92) 28' 3 Fl (II = A-fl, III = Picc), Picc, 3 Ob, Ca, E♭clb, 2 Cl, B-cl, 3 Bsn, Cbsn, 4 Hn, 4 Tpt, 3 Tbn, B-tbn, Tba, Perc, Hp, Pf, Str First performance: 29 April 1993 Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor Commissioned by The Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in Library of Congress for Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic ORCHESTRA Wise Music Classical Hire Symphony[Vertigo] (1987) 23' Orchestra, Quadraphonic computer processed sound 2 Fl (II = Picc), A-fl, 2 Ob, Ca, 2 Cl (II = E♭cl), B-cl, 2 Bsn, Cbsn, 4 Hn, 3 Tpt, 2 Tbn, B-tbn, Tba, Perc, Pf, Hp, Str First performance: 9 December 1987 Davies Hall, San Francisco San Francisco Symphony, Andrew Massey, Conductor Written under the auspices of the Systems Development Foundation ORCHESTRA Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance, parts, sound files] Music for Shakespeare's The Tempest (1980) 40' Quadraphonic electroacoustic sound First performance: 30 July 1980 Lenox, Massachusetts Shakespeare & Company Tina Packer, Director MUSIC FOR THEATER Wise Music Classical Hire [sound files; this work has no score] WISE new entry Thoughts, Places, Dreams (2013) 24' Solo Cello, Chamber Orchestra Fl, Cl, Hn, Tbn, Perc, Pf, Vln First performance: 13 October 2013 Alexis Descharmes, Solo Cello Ensemble Court-circuit, Jean Deroyer, Conductor Teatro Piccolo Arsenale Venice Biennale Commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture SOLO WITH ENSEMBLE Wise Music Purchase and Hire [parts, solo part] Threshold (1967-1968) 18' 4 fl (I-IV = Picc), 2 Ob (II = Ca), 3 Cl (III = B-cl), 3 Bsn (III = Cbsn), 4 Hn, 4 Tpt, 4 Tbn (III, IV = B-tbn), 2 Tba, Perc, Pf, Hpd, Hp, Mand, Str First performance: 7 June 1968 Orchestral Space '68, Tokyo Japan Philharmonic, Seiji Ozawa, Conductor ORCHESTRA Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [score, parts] Toward Another World: LAMENT [SHARESPACE III] (2010-2017) 22" Solo Clarinet, Real-time algorithmic transformation First performance: 31 July 2017 Anthony Burr, Solo Clarinet, Jacob Sundstrom, Real-time algorithmic transformation Society for Music Perception and Cognition Conference Calit2 Auditorium University of California San Diego ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performace, sound files or real time computer processing, Four Real-Time Algorithms] Traces (1968) 23'30" Piano, Fl, Vc, Multichannel electroacoustic sound, (6-channel [3 stereo pairs]), Real-time signal processing First performance: 15 December 1968 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Yuji Takahashi, Piano, Robert Cram, Flute, Marijke Verbene, Cello Center for Creative and Performing Arts, SUNY Buffalo PIANO and INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [4 scores needed for performance, sound files] Transfigured Wind I (1984) 9' Solo Flute First performance: 19 May 2003 Reiko Manabe, Flute Mandeville Center for the Arts University of California San Diego SOLO Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] [TW I and TW IV are included in the same publication but they are not the same. TW I is acoustic while TW IV has associated sound files and a more elaborated flute part.] Transfigured Wind II (1984) 35.5' Solo Flute, Orchestra, Quadraphonic computer processed sound 2 Fl (II = Picc), 2 Ob, 2 Cl, 2 Bsn, 2 Hn, 2 Tpt, 2 Tbn, Tba, 2 Perc, Pf, Str First performance: 4 June 1984 Horizons '84, New York City, American Composers Orchestra, Harvey Sollberger, Flute, Charles Wuorinen, Conductor Written under the auspices of the Systems Development Foundation ORCHESTRA Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance, instrumenntal parts, solo flute part, sound files] [sound files for TW II are the same as for TW III; these are different from sound files for TW IV] Transfigured Wind III (1984) 35.5' Solo Flute, Chamber Orchestra (14 players), Quadraphonic computer processed sound Ob, 2 Cl (I = E♭clb, II = Cl B-flat), Bsn (Cbsn), Hn, Tpt, Tbn, 2 Perc, Pf, Vln, Vla, Vc, Db First performance: 21 June 1984 Olympic Arts Festival, Los Angeles CalArts New Music Ensemble, Harvey Sollberger, Flute, Jean-Charles François, Conductor Written under the auspices of the Systems Development Foundation The Ekkozone/Divine Art Recordings Group CD of Transfigured Wind III won the 2024 Danish Radio Album of the Year 2024. SOLO WITH ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance, instrumental parts, solo flute part, sound files] [sound files for TW III are the same as for TW II] [electronics for TW III are the same as for TW II] Transfigured Wind IV (1985) 18' Solo Flute, Quadraphonic computer processed sound First performance: 10 February 1985 Lincoln Center, New York City, Robert Aitken, Flute Commissioned by Robert Aitken SOLO Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance, sound files] [TW I and TW IV are included in the same publication but they are not the same. TW I is acoustic while TW IV has associated sound files and a more elaborated flute part.] Wise add Hire Two Voices – an allegory (1996) 15.5' Orchestra, Stereophonic computer processed sound 4 Fl (III, IV = Picc), 3 Ob, Ca, 2 Cl, E♭clb, B-cl, 3 Bsn, Cbsn, 4 Hn, 4 Tpt, 3 Tbn, B-tbn, Tba, 4 Perc, Pf, Cel, Hp, Str First performance: 17 October 1997 The Academy of Music, Philadelphia The Philadelphia Orchestra, Luis Biava, Conductor Commissioned by The Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra Association, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Conductor ORCHESTRA Wise Music Classical Hire The Vanity of Words [Voicespace V] (1986) 20'12" Electroacoustic vocal work Stereophonic computer processed sound Text drawn from The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera First performance: 6 June 1987 Festival International de Musique Expérimentale, Bourges The Vanity of Words was written under the aegis of the Center for Music Experiment and Related Research, UC San Diego. ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Hire [sound files; this work has no score] Variation (1988) 22' Solo Piano First performance: 3 December 1991 Merkin Concert Hall, New York, Aleck Karis, Piano Written under the auspices of The Banff Centre for the Arts PIANO Wise Music Classical Purchase Versions/Stages I-V (1986-91) 25' Quadraphonic computer processed sound I. Cello Dream, II. Dionysus (Text: Tadashi Suzuki's adaptation of Euripides's The Bacchae), III. Waterfall, IV. Farewell Cult (Text: Tadashi Suzuki's "The Farewell Cult"), V. Ocean First presentation: 29 March 1994 Intercambio/Exchange Concerts, CRCA, La Jolla ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS Wise Music Classical Hire [sound files; this work has no score] Vertigo ELECTROACOUSTIC VERSION (1985) 17' Quadraphonic computer processed sound First performance: 25 April 1987 New and Unusual Music, San Francisco Written under the auspices of the Systems Development Foundation ELECTROACOUSTIC Vertigo VIDEO VERSION (1985) 17' Quadraphonic computer processed sound Video by Ed Emshwiller First performance: 3 May 1986 The Pacific Ring Festival, La Jolla Written under the auspices of the Systems Development Foundation MULTIMEDIA Wise Music Classical Hire [video, sound files; this work has no score] Visions (1990-1991) 32' String Quartet First performance: 27 May 1992 Music Today, Tokyo, Arditti Quartet Commissioned by Lincoln Center for the Arditti Quartet STRINGS Wise Music Classical Purchase Watershed I (1995) 27'30" Solo Percussion First performance: 1 December 1995 Manhattan School of Music, New York, Steven Schick, Percussion SOLO and PERCUSSION Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] Watershed III (1995) 31' Solo Percussion, Chamber Orchestra, Optional real-time computer sound spatialization Fl (Picc), Ob, Cl, B-cl, Hn, Tpt, B-tbn, Pf, 2 Vln, Vla, Vc, Db First performance: 30 October 1995 Loeb Centre, New York Music Mobile Ensemble, Steven Schick, Percussion, Bruno Ferrandis, Conductor Peter Otto, Spatialization WATERSHED TECHNICAL SCORE by Roger Reynolds SOLO WITH ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score, WATERSHED Technical Score] and Hire [3 scores needed for performance, instrumental parts, solo percussion part, sound files, WATERSHED Technical Score] Watershed IV (1995) 29' Solo Percussion, Real-time computer sound spatialization First performance: 11 April 1996 Mandeville Center for the Arts, La Jolla Steven Schick, Percussion, Peter Otto, Spatialization WATERSHED TECHNICAL SCORE by Roger Reynolds ELECTROACOUSTIC Wise Music Classical Purchase [score, WATERSHED Technical Score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance, sound files, WATERSHED Technical Score] Watershed V (2020) Solo Percussion, Stereophonic algorithmically generated "Shimmer" First performance: 1 September 2020 Mathias Reumert, Percussion SC–FESTIVAL Copenhagen, Denmark ELECTROACOUSTIC Wise Music Classical Purchase [score forthcoming] and Hire [2 scores are needed for performance, stereophonic sound files] Wise new entry Wedge (1961) 9.5' 2 Fl (2 Picc), 2 Tpt, 2 Tbn, Tba, Perc, Pf, Db First performance: 10 February 1962 ONCE Festival, Ann Arbor ONCE Chamber Ensemble, David Sutherland, Conductor INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [score, parts] Whispers Out of Time (1988) 26.5' String Orchestra First performance: 11 December 1988 Amherst College, Harvey Sollberger, Conductor Commissioned by the Amherst College Friends of Music VOICE(S) and INSTRUMENT(S) Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [score, parts] Pulitzer Prize for Music 1989 Will you answer if I call? (1997-1998) 8' Solo Harpsichord, Fl, Cl, B-cl, Bsn, Hn, Vln I, Vln II, Vla, Vc, Db First performance: 13 January 1998 Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, Jukka Tiensuu, Harpsichord, John Storgårds, Conductor Järvenpää, Finland 60th Birthday Celebration for Paavo Heininen SOLO WITH ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance, parts] WISDOM's SOURCEs (2022-2024) 37' – ACOUSTIC VERSION Violin, Viola STRINGS and INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] Wise new entry WISDOM's Sources (2022-2024) 37' – VIDEO VERSION Violin, Viola Art film by Kyle Johnson with Roger Reynolds MULTIMEDIA and STRINGS Wise Music Classical Hire [video] Wise new entry 22 (2004-2005) 30' 5.1 computer processed and spatialized sound, source recordings: Anthony Burr (bass clarinet) and Steven Schick (percussion), Real-time processing for coordination with motion capture system, digital graphics, and dancer Bill T. Jones First Performance: 9 April 2005 Arizona State University, ISA/AME motione project Bill T. Jones, Dancer/Choreographer, Paul Kaiser, Shelly Eshkar, Marc Downie, Digital Imagery, Pei Xiang, Musical Assistant Commissioned by Arizona State University MULTIMEDIA Wise Music Classical Hire [sound files, projections; this piece has no score] Wise new entry To obtain a DVD: ASU School of Arts, Media, and Engineering or The GAME School