Electroacoustic works

This Fantasie was written for Nanci Belmont for the IDRS conference in 2019. The bassoon is processed live, using delays and pitch shifting.

Lever (2016) - Another work for oboe and electronics.  The first movement uses a single delay line, the second uses a single delay line pitched down a third, and the third movement uses two delay lines:  one pitched down a third and one pitched down a fifth.

Electronic works

In the spring of 2020, my brother and I (as part of composer collective De Snakes) started giving each other bi-weekly challenges, things like "compose something using feedback in some way," or "compose something inspired by a random piece of artwork".  The complete playlist of these challenges (minus a couple that ended up being videos instead of audio) is here, and these are some of my selected favorites:

Om-Ba-Di - Write a piece inspired by a piece of artwork.  It wound up being a simple song for voice and piano.

An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill - This one wound up being a collaboration between my brother and me:  the goal was to write an infinitely looping piece of music, where we each wrote half of the piece.  To achieve this, we started by each writing a 20-ish-second transition, splitting those transitions down the middle, and using them as the starting and stopping points for our longer segments.  Somehow, it wound up being about Buffalo Bill.

Lament for Distressed Real Estate - The prompt for this one was to have Wikipedia generate three random articles, and the ensuing music had to thematically incorporate something from each of those articles.

h e y - For this challenge, my brother created a short video for me to score, and this was the final product.

Selected other electronic works:

Everywhere and nowhere to go - A whistling solo and drums join a randomly (and accidentally) looped piano sample

Fruit Group - One afternoon, I was inspired to pontificate about the food pyramid and then create silly music to accompany it.

Saturday Night Lights - Atmospheric evolving track to score a bit of video that I shot in my NY apartment, using synthesizers, samples, and voice

Ellie Tiesgio - This track started with me using the signal from a piezo transducer to drive an envelope follower to control some FM synthesis parameters, and drums were layered on top of that

Under65th - For this one, I took a live recording of a performance that I’d played in, chopped it into segments, assigned each segment to a different MIDI note, and then performed drum loops with the above samples while doing a variety of other processing.

Bottle Dance - This was written for the Brothers Balliett radio show in 2013, and it features guitar, organ, granularly sampled voices, and other sounds.