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Again, cf. ELECTROACOUSTIC
(originally titled Template series one)
2 Sopranos, 2 Fl, 2 Tbn, 2 Perc, 2 Db,
Quadraphonic electroacoustic sound, amplification, optional lighting
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
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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
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Consider... (2004) 8'30"
Tenor and French horn
Text: adapted by the composer from a prose poem by Paul Auster
First performances: 12, 13 September 2004
Thomas Meglioranza, Baritone, William Purvis, French horn
"Works & Process", Guggenheim Museum, New York
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DICKINSON (2019-21) 54', cf. SOLO as well as VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S)
Baritone
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
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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 SOLO as well as VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S)
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
The Emperor of Ice Cream, cf. MUSIC FOR THEATER
(Staged) 8 Voices, Perc, Pf, Db
ILLUSION (2005-2006) 60', cf. SERIES OF WORKS
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
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JUSTICE: The Arias, cf. MUSIC FOR THEATER
Actress, Soprano, Percussion, Real-time computer sound spatialization,
Computer processed sound, Staging
Text assembled by the composer from Aeschylus and Euripides
I/O: A Ritual for 23 Performers, cf. MULTIMEDIA
(Staged) 9 Female Vocalists, 9 Male Mimes, 2 Fl, Cl,
2 Technician/Performers, live electronic processing, projections
KNOWING / NOT KNOWING, cf. INTERMEDIA as well as VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S)
Narrator, recorded voices, mixed chorus, 2 percussionists, trombonist, actor,
8-channel sound and video projections
First performance: 17 March 2024
UC San Diego Park & Market
1100 Market St., San Diego
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
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Masks, cf. ORCHESTRA
8-part Mixed Chorus, Orchestra
A Merciful Coincidence [Voicespace II], cf. ELECTROACOUSTIC
Music theater for three vocalists, Electroacoustic sound
Not Only Night (1988) 10'
Soprano, Fl (Picc), E♭cl (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
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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
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Of This Word’s Being … heard / not heard, cf. INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE
Soprano, Flute, Piano, Percussion
The Palace [Voicespace IV], cf. SOLO and SERIES OF WORKS
(Modest staging) Bass Baritone, Quadraphonic computer processed sound
Text: poem The Palace by Jorge Luis Borges
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
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The Red Act Arias, cf. ORCHESTRA
Orchestra, Chorus, Narrator, 8-channel computer processed and spatialized
vocal, instrumental, and environmental sound
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, 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)
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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, Alan Pierson, Conductor
Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts
MIZZOU New Music Summer Festival
Columbia, Missouri
VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S)
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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, Alan Pierson, Conductor
Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts
MIZZOU New Music Summer Festival
Columbia, Missouri
VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S)
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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, Alan Pierson, Conductor
Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts
MIZZOU New Music Summer Festival
Columbia, Missouri
VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S)
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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, Alan Pierson, Conductor
Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts
MIZZOU New Music Summer Festival
Columbia, Missouri
VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S)
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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)
SEASONS: Cycle I, cf. INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE
Flute, Bass Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Percussion, Real-time computer sound processing
Sketchbook (for The Unbearable Lightness of Being), cf. SOLO
Low female voice accompanying herself at the piano,
electronic processing
Submerged Memories (2006), cf. INTERMEDIA as well as VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S)
Narrator, B-cl, Vln, Elect Gtr, Perc,
Electroacoustic processing, Visual projections
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 all 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
Commissioned by the Fromm Foundation for The Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-Acoustic Band
INTERMEDIA and VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S)
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