SCORES
Some of my recent scores are as much about their own score-ness and thing-ness as they are about any specific music-making, and all of them are an open invitation to respond or to not respond however you would like. Specific musical material, when it appears, is generally quiet and slow to change, but this is not to imply that louder or faster readings of more "open" scores would be unwelcome. Feel free to use anything you find here however you prefer (on a music stand, on the wall, as a hat, etc.) and please do get in touch if you find anything you like or would like to hear more about.
I update this page regularly and I revise these scores occasionally as my thoughts on them change. I don't keep old versions of my scores for my own records but if you have an old version that you prefer you are more than welcome to ignore my changes.
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Solo electric guitar with effects, 2022
(there's no score for [untitled guitar piece], just some notes here so that somebody couold play it if they wanted to)
Solo percussion, 2022, three pieces: 1. Having only seen the score for James Tenney's Having Never Written a Note for Percussion whilst having never seen the score for Alvin Lucier's Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra ; 2. Having now seen the score for Alvin Lucier's Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra (which I had already heard) whilst having still only seen the score for James Tenney's Having Never Written a Note for Percussion ; 3. Having at last heard James Tenney's Having Never Written a Note for Percussion (which I had already read) and also seen the score for Alvin Lucier's Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra (which I had already heard)
Piano Study 7, or, the logical extension of both Piano Study 1 and Piano Study 6
Solo piano, 2022
Flexible duration, flexible instrumentation, 2022
Electric guitar duo with effects, 2022
Flexible duration, flexible instrumentation or guitar with effects, 2022
One breath, for Kathryn Williams, 2022
They don't write 'em like they used to
Flexible duration, physical theatre/clowning, 2021
after an étude by Camille Saint-Saëns, composer*
*Six Études, Op. 52: no. 2 pour l'indepéndence des doigts (1877)
17 minutes, piano and flexiple mid-range ensemble with bass, with prelude and/or postlude, 2021
Very long duration, flexible/no instrumentation, 2021
Flexible duration, two reed organs, 2021
Four short theatrical sketches, three performers, 2021
Flexible duration, voice, for two people or any multiple of two people, 2021
Flexible duration, flexible instrumentation, 2021
Flexible duration, flexible instrumentation, 2021
Flexible duration, flexible instrumentation (probably solo), 2021
Flexible duration, 2021
Leaf Piece for Fernando Yada Rodrigues
Flexible duration, piano, 2020 (revised 2021, formerly Two Lines for . . .)
Flexible duration, alto saxophone, 2021
(score for audio component of Phonic Cycles, collaboration with Sarah Hetrick and Virginia Lee Montgomery, commissioned by Tetractys New Music)
Flexible duration, voice(s), 2020 (second page added 2020, third added 2021)
piano, spring 2021
Text score derived from an improvisation, flexible duration, flexible instrumentation, 2021
Flexible duration, piano, 2019 (revised 2021)
Flexible duration if played, cello or cello-like objects, 2021
Berceuse which continues for an organist
6-8 hours, organ, 2020
Four Lines for Alicja Pilarczyk
11 minutes (approx.), solo violin, 2020
Flexible duration, flexible instrumentation, 2020
Flexible duration, 2020
Seven Lines for the Ligeti Quartet
Flexible duration, string quartet, 2020 (revised 2020)
Catrographies I - IV
Flexible duration, flexible instrumentation, 2018 (revised 2019)
(abandoned - reflective talk on these pieces and notation as map-making here)
Flexible duration, flexible instrumentation 2018 (revised 2020)
Flexible duration, flexible instrumentation, 2019 (revised 2020)
Daily practice of flexible duration, 2020
Text score for those stuck indoors, 2020
(featured in Claudia Molitor's Hausmusik Kollektiv project, published by HCMF)
The Jurassic Coast in the Off-Season
Flexible duration, flexible instrumentation/discipline, 2019
Flexible duration, flexible instrumentation, 2019