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Parting Dance
Parting Dance was originally composed for string quartet (2020), and revised for the Pyxis Saxophone Quartet (2021).
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Archive Tape 25 – 7.12.2003
Archive Tape 25 – 7.12.2003 is an intermedia work for fixed media and five-screen video. The work simulates a found-footage, memory loss program with images of liminal spaces, asking the audience to “help her remember…” Anna Schmelter – Narrator Premiered at UNT Spectrum, February 21, 2021, Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater
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Come, Close Your Eyes
Created in collaboration with lyricist Patrick Gillaspie, Come, Close Your Eyes is sung from the perspective of a chemical company that is knowingly poisoning people, enticing them to believe that nothing is wrong. This composition became the foundation for movements 12-14 of Requiem for a Poisoned Earth.
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Connections…
Connections… is a collection of nine distinct, indeterminate, gamified movements, organized by complexity from lowest to highest. The work aimed to transfer common ice-breaker and party games like “telephone” or checkers into a musical variation, encouraging musicians (and, in some cases, audience members) to connect in musically collaborative or competitive ways. Movements:
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