compositions

Full-length composed works from 1997, for electronics or electronics and instruments. Both fixed  and live media


Patterns of Changing Light (2009)


Multitrack tape composition, mostly using concatenative synthesis techniques. Premiered at Roulette, May 2009.




A Theory of Meaning (2007)


Radio piece for synthesized voices, commissioned by free103point9 radio, about ideas, objects, descriptions, and semiology. How do we actually manage to make sense out of words at all? 

Archived on free103point9


Pianoless Vexations (2006)


Contribution to the Sculpture Center's 2006 concert, featuring many artists.  Rather than deal with repetition the 20 minutes he was allotted were filled with a single time-stretched iteration of the piece.

Archived on Ubuweb


Insomnia (2003-08)

Multichannel tape composition, premiered at Diapason gallery, November 2003.  Live version performed extensively, most notably at the Unyazi festival in Johannesberg in 2005.


C\:> WORD.EXE (2002)


A one-minute piece realized for the the Short Electronic Form Fair at REX in Belgrade.  the codebase of Microsoft Word expressed as an audiofile, and the springboard for the installation atopia:levigation and apophenia.

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A video opera inspired by the life and work of Adolf Wölfli, Swiss peasant, schizophrenic, artist, writer, and composer. Comissioned by the Wien Modern festival, and performed at the Sammlung Essl, November 2001.

mo: electronics
Stephie Büttrich: voice
Chris Nelson: voice
Benton Bainbridge: video


What Things Are (1997)


A suite of three short tape pieces, each using material from a single source.  Created while resident at SUSS Studios, Sheffield University.  Released on Dolor del Estomago records, but good luck ever finding them.  Below is one of the three.




Vertebra (1997)


A solo work for live performance, released on Pogus records in 1997, and toured extensively in the US and Europe.  Listen to part 1:



Available from Pogus


Guilty (1996)


A music-theater piece for instruments, electronics, and voices, based on the 1944 film Double Indemnity. Premiered at the Korzo theater, The Hague, May 1996.

mo: electronics and voice
Stephie Büttrich: voice
Irma Lammers: cello
Hamish McKeich: bassoon
Mary Oliver: violin
Toon Vandevoort: piano and voice
Anne Wellmer: voice