Compositions
Scores and performance materials available from composer unless publisher noted.
* Issued on recordings.
Recent works
A Sound Map of the Housatonic River (2010)
4-channel sound installation, 1 hr. 17'
Program Note
In Our Name (2009) Annea Lockwood/Thomas Buckner
baritone voice, cello, 4 channel or stereo 'tape', 10'
Program Note
Thirst (2008)
4 channel 'tape', 20'
Commissioned by Issue Project Room, Brooklyn
Program Note
Jitterbug (2007)
6 channel 'tape', graphic score for 2 players, 40'
Commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Program Note and Score Sample
Score available from I Resound Press
Gone! (2007)
music-box piano and helium balloons
Commissioned by Jennifer Hymer
Read and download the score!
Score also available from I Resound Press
A Sound Map of the Danube* (2005)
5.1 sound installation, 2 hrs. 47'
See photos of the installation and recording process!
Sample 1: Eining ferry, Weltenburg
Sample 2: Grein, underwater
Luminescence* (2004)
baritone voice, fl, tpt, vla, vc, pno, perc, speaking voice, 18'
Commissioned by Thomas Buckner
Score available from I Resound Press
Thomas Buckner and the s.e.m. ensemble
Other works (selected):
Bow Falls (2003) Paul Ryan/Annea Lockwood
video, 26'
Program Note
Vortex (2003)
cl., bass cl., cello, contrabass, pno., uboingee/guitar, perc., 10'
Commissioned by the Bang-on-a-Can Peoples' Commissioning Fund
Ceci n'est pas un piano (2002)
piano, video, electronics, 9'30
Commissioned by Jennifer Hymer
Score and performance materials available from I Resound Press
RCSC (2001)
piano, 4'
Commissioned by Sarah Cahill
Score available from I Resound Press
Ground of Being (2000)
8-channel 'tape', 26'
Commissioned by Electronic Music Foundation and Engine 27
floating world* (1999)
8-channel or stereo 'tape', 36'
Program Note
Immersion (1998)
marimba, tam-tams, quartz bowl gong F (2 or 4 players), 11'
Program Note
Score available from I Resound Press
performed by William Winant and Chas Smith
Duende* (1998) Annea Lockwood/Thomas Buckner
baritone voice, stereo 'tape', 25'
Commissioned by Thomas Buckner
Thomas Buckner, baritone
Ear-Walking Woman* (1996)
prepared piano, 16'30
Commissioned by Lois Svard
Program Note
Score available from I Resound Press
Lois Svard, piano
Monkey Trips* (1995)
2 strings, 2 winds, 2 percussion, 17'
Commissioned by the Music in Motion project
Score available from I Resound Press
Western Spaces (1995)
flute, alto flute, zoomoozophone, percussion (4 players), 12'
Written for Newband
Score available from I Resound Press
I Give You Back* (1995)
soprano, 7'20
Published by Waiteata Music Press
Kristin Nordeval, soprano, recorded for Sorrel Hays' Touching
Sound project by Marilyn Ries
Red Mesa* (1993)
piano, 16'
Written for NorthSouth Consonance, pub. by Waiteata Music Press
Dan Poynton, piano
The Angle of Repose* (1991)
baritone voice, khaen, alto flute, 14'
Commissioned by Thomas Buckner
Program Note
Score available from I Resound Press
Thousand Year Dreaming* (1990)
ob., eng. hn., cl., cb. cl., 2 ten. trb., 4 didjeridus, 2 conch shell tpts., perc., voice,
slide projections (10 players), 43'
Commissioned by Essential Music
Score available from I Resound Press
Performed by Art Baron, Libby Van Cleve, Jon Gibson, Annea Lockwood, J.D. Parran, Michael Pugliese, N. Scott Robinson, John Snyder, Charles Wood and Peter Zummo
Amazonia Dreaming (1987)
snare drum, voice, 8'
Commissioned by Stuart Smith
Published by Smith Publications, The Noble Snare, Vol.3
Program Note
Night and Fog* (1987)
bar. voice, bar. sax., amplified pno., perc, stereo 'tape' (3 players), 20'
Commissioned by Thomas Buckner
Score available from I Resound Press
Performed by Thomas Buckner, Michael Pugliese and J.D. Parran
Saouah! (1987)
SATB chorus, 4 gongs (16 singers), 16'
Score available from I Resound Press
Malolo (1983)
SSA (3 singers), 3'15'
Published by Treble Clef Music Press
A Sound Map of the Hudson River* (1982)
sound installation, 2 hrs.
Comissioned by the Hudson River Museum
Site: Garrison, NY
World Rhythms (1975)
live mix - 10 chs tape, large tam tam, 1 hr.
Spirit Catchers (1974)
4 speaking voices, personal objects, 4 ch. amplification, 15'
Score and performance materials available from I Resound Press
Tiger Balm* (1970)
stereo tape, 20'
Commissioned by the London Contemporary Dance Theatre
Piano Transplants: Piano Burning, Piano Drowning, Piano Garden, Southern Exposure (1967-2005)
Read and download scores and photos!
The Glass Concert* (1967-70)
live audio/visual performance with amplified glass
Score published in The Source Book: Music of the Avant Garde, 1966-1973,
eds. Larry Austin and Douglas Kahn, University of California Press 2009
See photos of performances!