Scores
I'd love to hear about any performances of these works; please drop me a line if you decide to perform one, or if you have any questions.
• I wrote Palimpsest (After Feldman) in 2006 for guitarist Jeff Libman. At the time, Jeff and I were both taking Dr. Sabine Feisst's Experimental Music class at ASU. He asked me for a piece that would qualify as "experimental" but would still be approachable by a group of musicians who mainly work in bebop and post-bebop traditions. I was listening to lots of Laurie Anderson and Robert Ashley at the time, and what came out was a structured-improvisation-plus-speech piece. P(AF) re-purposes the score for Morton Feldman's percussion work King of Denmark, turning it into a vehicle for spoken childhood memories accompanied by an ensemble (3-9 total performers). (Instructions/Score)
• Palimpsest (After Glass) is a short piece I wrote in May 2009 for violist Laura Sinclair. Laura and I attended the Bang on a Can Summer Institute in 2007 and got along fabulously. After the Institute, she moved to Cleveland to start grad work at CIM while I went back to Phoenix to continue at ASU. When I got the job at Kent State, we were able to start hanging out again-- she's still fabulous-- and this piece was a gift for her upon her leaving Cleveland to start the next stage of her career. I hope she likes it. It can be played on any instrument capable of playing two pitches at once; transpositions are fine if there are range issues.