My New Music Rocks! (2025) 120'
blah blah
power tools and bird calls lots of extra stuff
The Nobody Fund
Works
Percussion
Field of Vision (2022) 60'
36 percussionists
Caramoor Center for the Arts
loved. (2020) 7'
7 vibraphones or other pitched metal
Brooklyn Botanical Garden for an installation at the BBG Cherry Esplanade: August 7-September 7, 2020 and March 13-May 8, 2021 (David Cossin, vibraphones)
Material (2016) 65'
2 pianos, 2 percussion
commissioned for Yarn/Wire by the Augustine Foundation
Cloud River Mountain (2015, rev. 2017) 32'
music by Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Lau Luo
soprano, cl, perc, egtr, piano, vc, db
commissioned by Maria and Robert A. Skirnick and Arts Brookfield
Hyper (2014) 10'
fl, cl, pno, perc, gtr, vl, vc, db
Da Camera Society of Los Angeles
love fail (2012) 60'
Text by David Lang (after Lydia Davis, Marie de France, Gottfried von Strassburg, Béroul, Thomas of Britain and Richard Wagner)
SSAA playing simple percussion instruments
love fail was co-commissioned by The Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2012 Next Wave Festival, The International Festival of Arts & Ideas, The John F. Kennedy Center Abe Fortas Memorial Fund, The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, The Secrest Artists Series at Wake Forest University, and Hancher Performances at the University of Iowa. Movement 4, 'the wood and the vine', was commissioned by The Newman Center for the Performing Arts at University of Denver, The University of California at Riverside, and the Santa Fe Concert Association in Santa FE, NM. Movement 10, 'I live in pain', in a different version, was originally written for “TheCrossing,” Donald Nally, conductor.
Cold (2011) 15'
1.1.2.1/1.2.1.0/2perc/pno/2.1.2.1 + electronics [all instruments amplified]
Ensemble Modern
Timber (2009) 60'
six percussionists playing wooden simantras (2x4s) [all instruments amplified]
Club Guy and Roni, Slagwerk den Haag, Mantra Percussion, with support from The Nief Norf Project
the light of the dark (2008) 13'
fl, cl, perc, pno, vn, vc (performers double on a variety of instruments and percussion)
Eighth Blackbird
What to Wear (2005) 65'
Text by Richard Foreman
2S, A, T, small female chorus
2kbd, perc, egtr, 2vn, db, drums [all instruments and voices amplified]
The Center for New Performance at CalArts and the Ontological-Hysteric Theater with funds provided by the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust. What to Wear is also a Meet the Composer Commissioning Music/USA commission and was produced with the additional support of the Shubert Foundation.
Big Beautiful Dark and Scary (2002) 15'
cl/perc/pf/egtr/vc.db; amp
The MAP Fund
XY (1997) 15'
5 tuned drums
Evelyn Glennie
Trance (1995) 52'
2(2pic,2panpipe).00.3sx.0/0440/3kbd.acn.egtr.bgtr/perc/vn.vc + audio playback [all instruments amplified]
Icebreaker
Four Kings Fight Five (1988) 23'
011+bcl.0/perc/eorg/egtr/vn.va.vc [all instruments amplified]
The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust
Strange Quiet (1985) 14'
cl(bcl),egtr,pn,perc,vn,va [all instruments amplified]
Thou Shalt!/Thou Shalt Not! (1983) 18'
cl(bcl)/perc/eorg/egtr/vn.va [all instruments amplified]