My mostly aleatoric compositions use a variety of approaches, primarily
altered or abstracted notation, and game-like strategies, based on the location of a performance, its acoustics, architecture, occasion, personnel, instrumentation. They are intended to engage classically trained and improvising musicians alike. |
ZIGWME 2018.
composed for and performed by the Del Sol String 4tet video of workshopped piece 8/15/19 New Music for Strings Festival, Reykjavik |
AdENDDA 2021. s composed of a singular, repeated rhythmic phrase that is virtually un-notatable. Its nuance exists in the cracks of delineated beats in a measure. The phrase has a melodic shape, but has no determinate pitch, clef, key nor register, all of which are interpreted by the individual performers. The result of this freedom is intended to highlight the melodic contour without any tonality. AdENDDA is notated on a six-line staff to further destabilize a conventional reading of pitches and intervals. The static rhythmic phrase becomes a filter through which to hear shifting, serialized accent patterns and displaced melodic fragments from an exhaustive number of perspectives or orientations.
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Two video performances of I-V superimposed with For 8 strings
8/14/19
New Music for Strings Festival, Harpa Concert Hall, Reykjavik
https://youtu.be/P5bsdxKJNTc?t=378
9/17/18
Café Oto. London
https://youtu.be/rDlJgmPfpPg?t=1310
8/14/19
New Music for Strings Festival, Harpa Concert Hall, Reykjavik
https://youtu.be/P5bsdxKJNTc?t=378
9/17/18
Café Oto. London
https://youtu.be/rDlJgmPfpPg?t=1310
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I Am Smiling At You (2015) for 4 woodwinds, electronics, and percussion. view the score
composed in response to text piece by artist Mel Bochner, for the exhibition Glomar III: If Such Information Were To Exist. Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles. link Chris Speed, Damon Zick, Ulrich Krieger, Brian Walsh: woodwinds. Isaac Schankler: electronics. Corey Fogel: Percussion |
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Theater of Haecceity (2016)
for three violas and vibraphone. view the score Written to accompany my own fabric installation, over three playback speakers. link Ezra Buchla, Dina Maccabee, Alexander Bruck: violas Corey Fogel: vibraphone |
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SPUN-OFF MUSIC [Vos iz Abspaltung (musik)? danken!] (2012)
for chamber ensemble. view the score Written for Storefront Plaza installation by artist Nate Page. link. Two halves of the ensemble are positioned on either side of a glass window, sonically isolated. Strategic visual cues, conduction and improvisation are employed to direct the piece. Eric Clark, Andrew Tholl: vln, Cassia Streb, Ezra Buchla: vla Isaac Takeuchi, James Barry: clo. John Graves, Jeff Schwartz: bs. Kat Nockels, Jon Stehny: bassoon. Leah Paul, Christine Tavolacci: flute. Alicia Byer, Alex Sramek: clarinet. Corey Fogel: percussion. |
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I-V (2014)
for variable ensemble. view the score Eric Clark: vln. Cassia Streb: vla. Aniela Perry, Akina Cox: clo, Jake Rosenzweig: bs. Christine Tavolacci, Leah Paul: flutes. Corey Fogel: percussion . |
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Poem for 5 (2012)
for variable ensemble. view the score Jeff Roberts: gucin / electronics. Richard Teitelbaum: piano/electronics. Jacob Heule, James Borchers, Corey Fogel: percussion |
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