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ACTIONS [SHARESPACE V] (2018-2020), cf ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS
Solo Piano, Real-time algorithmic transformation
Aether (1983) 22'
Violin, Piano
First performance: 29 October 1983
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
János Négyesy, Violin, Cecil Lytle, Piano
Commissioned by The McKim Fund in The Library of Congress
Wise Music Classical
Purchase [score] and Hire [score, transposed violin part for violin scordatura]
Wise add Hire
Ambages (1965) 9.5'
Solo Flute
First performance: October 1965
Karen Reynolds, Flute
Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio
Wise Music Classical Purchase [score]
Autumn Island (Islands from Archipelago: II) (1986) 13'
Solo Marimba
First performance: 7 November 1986
Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, Gordon Stout, Marimba
Commissioned by a National Endowment for the Arts Consortium Award
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
Wise Music Classical
Purchase [score]
Colombi Daydream (2010) 7'45", cf. STRINGS as well as SOLO
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]
A Crimson Path, cf. INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE
Cello and Piano
DICKINSON (2019-21) 54', cf. VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S) as well as SOLO
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
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', cf. MULTIMEDIA and VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S) as well as SOLO
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
Dream Mirror [SHARESPACE I], cf. ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS
Solo Guitar, Real-time algorithmic transformation
Epigram and Evolution, cf. PIANO
Solo Piano
Fantasy for Pianist, cf. PIANO
Solo Piano
Focus a beam, emptied of thinking, outward... (1989) 11'
Solo Cello
First performance: 27 February 1992
Rohan de Saram, Cello
Merkin Concert Hall, New York
Wise Music Classical Purchase [score]
Here and There (2018) 36', cf. PERCUSSION as well as SOLO
Speaking Percussionist
First performance: 27 February 2019
Steven Schick, Percussion
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
La Jolla, California
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
imagE/cello & imAge/cello, cf. STRINGS and SERIES OF WORKS
Solo Cello
imagE/contrabass & imAge/contrabass, cf. STRINGS and SERIES OF WORKS
Solo Contrabass
imagE/guitar (2009) 6'5" & imAge/guitar (2009) 8'5", cf. SERIES OF WORKS as well as SOLO
Solo Guitar
First performance of the pair: 3 March 2011
Pablo Gómez Cano, Guitar
The Phillips Collection
Washington, DC
May be performed separately.
Wise Music Classical Purchase [score, imagE/guitar]
Wise Music Classical Purchase [score, imAge/guitar]
imagE/flute (2009) 8', cf. SERIES OF WORKS as well as SOLO
Solo Flute
First performance: 13 March 2013
Rachel Beetz, Flute
PASSAGE 9 perforrmance by Roger Reynolds
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
La Jolla, California
Wise Music Classical Purchase [score]
imAge/flute (2014) 6.5', cf. SERIES OF WORKS as well as SOLO
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
Wise Music Classical Purchase [score]
imagE/violin & imAge/violin, cf. STRINGS and SERIES OF WORKS
Solo Violin
imagE/piano & imAge/piano, cf. PIANO and SERIES OF WORKS
Solo Piano
The Image Machine, cf. ELECTROACOUSTIC
Real-time interactive computer music
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
Wise Music Classical Purchase [score]
MARKed MUSIC [SHARESPACE II], cf. ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS
Solo Contrabass, Real-time algorithmic transformation
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
Wise Music Classical Purchase [score; flute part included with score]
OPPOrTuniTy (2012), cf. PIANO as well as SOLO
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
Wise Music Classical Purchase [score]
The Palace [Voicespace IV] (1978-80) 16', SERIES OF WORKS as well as SOLO
(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
1976 Bicentennial Year National Endowment for the Arts Award
Wise Music Classical Purchase [score] and Hire [2 scores needed for performance, sound files]
PERSISTENCE [SHARESPACE VI], cf. ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS
Cello and Computer Musician
Seeking... (2026)
Solo Trombone
in process
Shifting/Drifting [SHARESPACE IV], cf. ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS
Violin, Real-time algorithmic transformation
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
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), cf. PERCUSSION as well as SOLO
Percussion
Kosuke Matsuda, percussionist
First performance: 14 April 2025 5:15pm
Conrad Prebys Music Center Recital Hall
University of California San Diego
Wise Music Classical Purchase [score]
Wise new entry
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
Wise Music Classical
Purchase and Hire
Toward Another World: LAMENT [SHARESPACE III], cf. ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS
Solo Clarinet, Real-time algorithmic transformation
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
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 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
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.
cf. ELECTROACOUSTIC
Variation, cf. PIANO
Solo Piano
Watershed I (i995) 27'30", cf. PERCUSSION as well as SOLO
Solo Percussion
First performance: 1 December 1995
Manhattan School of Music, New York, Steven Schick, Percussion
Wise Music Classical Purchase [score]
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