{ works }
audio and video links where available (look for underlined text) — contact me for availability of scores
+ — currently in-progress or incomplete
::: solo
+ Onsettan | solo for guitar + small instruments + live electronics + fixed media
+ Niceros | speaking percussionist - text adapted from Petronius' Satyricon
overwintered tread (“footprints in snow”) | 2021 // for Michelle Lie | violin
all lidless sea, out porthole through deadlight | 2020 // for Michelle Lie | solo violin + fixed media + lamp
Et la trace | 2018 // for Joshua Scheid | bass-baritone
Moucheron | 2016 // for Stephen Marotto | cello
Alas, departynge ys ground of woo | 2016 // for Mark Haygood | percussion
Minish light | 2015 // for Marti Epstein | toy piano
Encolpius | 2014 // for Shi-An Costello | speaking pianist
Eumolpus | 2013 // for Matt Sharrock | speaking marimbist
Thought memory | 2011, rev. 2013 | solo for 2 guitars
::: chamber
+ This will help, I know it | for Semiosis Quartet | string quartet (violins + viola + cello)
+ adret | ubac | sextet (flute + clarinet + violin + cello + piano + percussion)
+ Catarrh | for Charles Larson | duo (2 alto saxophones)
+ Draft arcade | for Ayça Çetin + Chuck Furlong | duo (flute + clarinet)
belowdecks water-breather | 2020 // for Tesla Quartet | string quartet (violins + viola + cello)
A CHAIR After NICERON 1638 | 2019-20 // for Del Sol String Quartet | string quartet (violins + viola + cello)
Tyaphaka (a ball with water or an eye) | 2016-17 // for Castle of our Skins | string trio (violin + viola + cello)
Cold column, calving | 2016 // for Transient Canvas | duo (bass clarinet + marimba)
Bract, involucre | 2015 // for Joint Venture Percussion Duo | duo (marimba + drum set)
Ancient wound | 2014 // for Chuck Furlong | quintet (bass clarinet + 4 piccolos)
Knife rest | 2013 // for Ludovico Ensemble | trio (alto saxophone + contrabass + drum set)
Corrugator unrequited | 2013 // for Byron Hogan | trio (cello + piano four-hands)
Complete field | 2012 // for Ludovico Ensemble | quartet (flute + oboe/english horn + vibraphone + piano)
::: vocal chamber
+ Gowlly | septet (soprano + bass-baritone + piccolo + bass clarinet + trumpet + bass trombone + cello + electronics) - text adapted from 16th-century Scots poem (anonymous, Bannatyne Manuscript)
A Single Unbending Curve | 2021 // for Strange Trace | sextet operetta (soprano + soprano + tenor + clarinet + percussion + cello) - libretto by Richard Funkhouser
Two letters from afar | 2013 // for Katherine Beckvoldt | duo (soprano + piano) - text from William Carlos Williams & Li Po (trans. by Bynner & Kang-Hu)
Alms for birds & threshold | 2013 // for Christina Pecce | sextet (soprano + oboe + bass clarinet + bassoon + baritone saxophone + bass trombone) - text adapter from the Bardo Thodol (Tibetan Book of the Dead)
::: large ensemble
Fortress of turns ... year one | 2015 // for Equilibrium Ensemble | 10 instruments
Pronoia | 2013 // for The Boston Conservatory Composers’ Orchestra | orchestra
::: installation
House of the Ax (co-written w/ Daniel T Lewis) | 2020 // for Rested Field | performance-installation for 4-6 performers
Tablelands | 2017/2018 (2 versions) // for Rested Field | performance-installation for 3+ performers (2017: 4 tables / 2018: 6 tables)
::: soundtrack
Paracusia (w/ Benjamin Boye, Connor Long, Owen Granich-Young // Christopher Dresibach, director) | 2010 | scoring for AFI thesis film
::: graphic scores
Amphi Hodos | 2011 // for Coppice | duo (shruti box + modified cassette player)
Memory Seal No. 1 | 2011 // for Chicago Scratch Orchestra | open instrumentation
swollen foot before the mountain | 2011 // for Quartz Sword | trio+ (open instrumentation for 3+ performers)
I. morning, four legs
II. afternoon, two legs [ 2 ver ::: trio+ & octet ]
III. evening, three legs
Trojeborg | 2010 // for Sun & Haw | duo+ (open instrumentation for 2+ performers)
Pañjara | 2009 // for Sun & Haw | duo+ (open instrumentation for 2+ performers)
::: songwriting
So it goes | 2024 | folk
Forced Deceits | 2024 | folk
Cutleaf | 2024 | folk
Jay Peak | 2024 | folk
Settling | 2024 | folk
Simple Song | 2024 | folk
Byrdsong | 2024 | folk
Traipse | 2024 | folk
Like as not | 2024 | folk
Sara | 2024 | folk
Henry | 2024 | folk
Errant Arrow | 2024 | folk
Sonatine | 2023 | folk
Basilisk | 2023 | folk
I’ll be in the garden | 2011 | doo-wop
Brick Lakes | 2002 | folk