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ACTIONS, cf. ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS
Solo Piano, Real-time algorithmic transformation
Articulate Circles (2025), cf. PERCUSSION as well as MULTIMEDIA
Percussion and projected video
Video by Kyle Johnson
First performance: pending
Aiyun Huang, percussionist
CIRMMT. McGill University
Wise Music Classical Purchase [score (in preparation)] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance, sound files, projections]
Wise new entry
Compass, cf. VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S)
Tenor, Bass, Vc, Db, Quadraphonic electroacoustic sound,
35mm slide projections
DICKINSON ... THE FILM (2019-2021) 54', cf. SOLO and VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S) as well as MULTIMEDIA
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
Wise Music Classical Hire [video]
Wise new entry
Eclipse [Voicespace III] MULTIMEDIA (VIDEO) VERSION (1979) 17', cf. SERIES OF WORKS and MUSIC FOR THEATER as well as MULTIMEDIA
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
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, cf. ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS
The Emperor of Ice Cream, cf. MUSIC FOR THEATER as well as MULTIMEDIA
(Staged) 8 Voices, Perc, Pf, Db
FLiGHT (2012-2016) 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, Reconfigurable projection modules, 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, Direction
First performances (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.
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
george WASHINGTON (2012-2013) 24' cf. ORCHESTRA as well as MULTIMEDIA
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
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]
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 Art Museum
Commissioned by the Pasadena Art Museum and the
California Institute of Technology
Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [5 scores needed for performance, 3 parts for instruments and electronics are included in the score, projections]
JUSTICE: The Arias, cf. MUSIC FOR THEATER and SERIES OF WORKS
Actress, Soprano, Percussion, Multichannel computer sound,
Real-time spatialization, Staging
last things, I think, to think about, cf. VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S)
Bass Baritone, Piano, Stereophonic computer processed sound,
Optional 35mm slides of text
The Palace [Voicespace IV], cf. SOLO and SERIES OF WORKS
(Modest staging) Bass Baritone, Quadraphonic
computer processed sound
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
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
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
Wise Music Classical Purchase [score forthcoming] and Hire [score, parts, video, projections, special objects]
Vertigo ELECTROACOUSTIC VERSION (1985) 17', cf. ELECTROACOUSTIC
Quadraphonic computer processed sound
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
Wise Music Classical Hire [video, sound files; this work has no score]
WISDOM's Sources (2022-2024) 37' – VIDEO VERSION, cf. STRINGS as well as MULTIMEDIA
Violin, Viola
Art film by Kyle Johnson with Roger Reynolds
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
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