selected works

Selected compositions, performances, and sound installations, with recordings, images, scores, and accounts of how the works developed.

  • Thumbnail for the post titled: Tone Poem in Surround

    Tone Poem in Surround

    Amplified writing, piano sounds, radio speech and other fragments circulate through surround space, continually approaching—but never settling into—the form of a poem.

  • Orange graphic bearing the words Tilde Tilde above two geometric forms containing a white tilde and a black acute accent.

    (˜) Tilde (´) Tilde

    A portrait and spatial soundscape of Little Havana, created from voices recorded in people’s homes and the audible life of the surrounding neighborhood during a ten-month residency.

  • Abstract four-sided pyramid in orange, red and violet against a black background, representing the four-point speaker configuration.

    Pyramid

    A four-point sound installation proposing the minimum speaker arrangement needed to create a three-dimensional audible experience: front left, front right, top center and back center.

  • Aerial coastline image in brown and pale orange with swirling water patterns and the title Sin Ninguna Imperfección.

    Sin Ninguna Imperfección

    An open instrumental composition and later eight-channel installation in which independently paced sounds unfold alongside a voice portrait of Argentine composer Ricardo Dal Farra.

  • Thumbnail for the post titled: Small Sounds Series

    Small Sounds Series

    An evolving series of works that finds ways to listen from closer within things, using contact microphones and other transducers to reveal hidden activity in objects, materials, places and everyday encounters.

  • Dusk over water and wetlands in Everglades National Park during Gustavo Matamoros’s 2013 A.I.R.I.E. residency.

    Everglades: Applied Universal Force

    Drawn from field recordings made throughout Everglades National Park, this 30-channel work assembles overlapping habitats of wildlife, weather and environmental sound. Dedicated to Charles Recher, it gives the Everglades the FUÁ—the extra force.

  • Black-and-white film still showing sparks flying from a rotary grinder in Ricardo Matamoros’s visual interpretation of String Solo.

    String Solo

    A vibration captured directly from a single piano wire becomes an enveloping eight-channel work. Recorded in one continuous action around 2005, String Solo was spatially orchestrated for Audiotheque 2.0 in 2018 and dedicated to Vito Acconci.

  • Black-and-white photograph of Jan Williams leaning toward a tilted snare drum during a rehearsal, with microphones positioned around the instrument.

    Williams Tells of Rights

    A piece for voice and solo snare drum—without sticks—in which an exaggerated rolled rr causes the instrument’s snares to resonate as language pivots repeatedly around the sound of right.

  • Black-and-white portrait of composer and Deep Listening pioneer Pauline Oliveros resting her head on one hand.

    Eighty Five Audible Moments for Pauline Oliveros

    Created from 85 audibles drawn from a lifelong archive and arranged within 85 seconds, this noise melody was dedicated to Pauline Oliveros. Its later spatial realizations give each audible its own position or movement while preserving the original composition.

  • Thumbnail for the post titled: Hextet for Stan Brakhage

    Hextet for Stan Brakhage

    Rubbing sounds from a bass drum and precomposed organ chords travel through six channels, drawing shifting figures in the PAMM auditorium between films by Stan Brakhage.