selected works

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

  • Thumbnail for the post titled: In Gated Memory of Gentle Giant

    In Gated Memory of Gentle Giant

    A Gated Piece in which live performers reveal unpredictable fragments of a continuously running Noise Melody constructed from Gentle Giant recordings.

  • Green water with scattered floating debris, rippled reflections, and a capped wooden piling crossed by a cable.

    Water, Garbage Everywhere

    As a Disklavier sends glissandi across all 88 keys, discarded objects placed directly on the piano strings transform its sound in real time. Created for Subtropics 7 in 1995, Water, Garbage Everywhere reflects on what we discard—and what the water eventually returns to us.

  • Double bassist Luis Gómez-Imbert poses beside his instrument against a dark studio background.

    Portrait: Luis Gómez-Imbert

    Portrait: Luis Gómez-Imbert (1992) is a work for double bass and stereo fixed media created entirely from Gómez-Imbert’s improvised playing, which he answers with a second improvisation in performance.

  • Reconstructed Philips FX744A wooden console open to reveal its radio, reel-to-reel recorder and record player.

    Tracing the Radio Landscape

    A stereo radio work created by moving through the shortwave spectrum from several temporary listening sites, organizing faint signals, distant voices, interference, music, and radio silence into a sound landscape with text and voice by Robert Gregory.

  • Sepia-toned photograph of Bob Gregory wearing glasses and a plaid shirt, looking down as he plays the mandolin.

    Crypsis (1991)

    For live and prerecorded voiceGustavo Matamoros and Bob GregoryDuration: 7′57″World premiere: June 27, 1991Center for the Fine Arts, Miami Crypsis is a work for live and prerecorded voice created with writer…

  • Sepia-toned photograph of Bob Gregory wearing glasses and a plaid shirt, looking down as he plays the mandolin.

    Portrait: Bob Gregory

    A single spoken “and” is opened with scalpel-like precision into a ten-minute sonic portrait, revealing breath, vowels, consonants and percussive details particular to Bob Gregory’s voice.

  • Title page of the handwritten 1989 score for In Memory of Gentle Giant, with horizontal musical staff lines surrounding the work’s title and dedication to Gordon Gottlieb.

    In Memory of Gentle Giant

    A game-like work for percussion and fixed media in which the performer attempts to anticipate and fill the unpredictable openings produced by overlapping pulse lines, FM-synthesized tones and sampled gestures from Gentle Giant recordings.

  • Thumbnail for the post titled: Truly Yours — for xylophone and fixed media

    Truly Yours — for xylophone and fixed media

    A melody for xylophone emerges in response to a soundscape discovered inside a drum machine, its found MIDI sequence transformed through reassignment, changing tempo and improvisation.