REPRESENTATIVE
WORKS
The Modular Music Project (MMP) is a series of compositions that employ "socio-multimedia" to transform audience mobile devices into collaborative instruments, exploring the spectrum between deterministic structure and aleatoric chance. These works function as immersive concert pieces, participatory installations, or live-scored films where performers and participants navigate modular components with varying degrees of improvisation. Every element is flexible: musicians can reconfigure movements into unique arrangements, videos are projected in different orders, and the audience can play back related media via their mobile devices. This communicative flexibility between myself, the performers, and the public, create "living" multimedia works that address the socio-political challenges of our contemporary moment. Below are three of 5 works that comprise MMP.
NEUROTICA (2025) a melodrama in on act for high voice, ensemble, and socio-multimedia
This piece examines our evolving relationship with mobile devices—and how the information flowing through them reshapes our inner lives. The title fuses neurosis and erotica: neurosis as our struggle to cope with the world, erotica as desire, fixation, and compulsion. In the digital age, these forces intensify within cybernetic spaces where anxiety, validation, voyeurism, and artificial intimacy collapse into a constant feedback loop.
Please review to the two playlists below. They represent the content of the melodrama: songs and interludes. The songs can be performed with or without an ensemble (two keyboards, e-gtr, e-bass, and drums) - the orchestral and string parts are always 'fixed' and synced to a click track for the instrumentalists. The interludes (created with Blender and AI platforms (Adobe Firefly, Kling, DI-D, and Topaz), are projected in the hall between movements. During these moments, the audience collectively chooses the next song. For a deeper dive into the work, please see this letter of inquiry to small theaters and performance venues.
NEUROTICA: SONGS (Score-follow Demos)
NEUROTICA: Cyborg Chorus Interludes
NorCal Water Music (2019)
for chamber ensemble and socio-multimedia
NorCal Water Music
This video represents the world premiere of NorCal..., performed by Citywater at the Crocker Art Museum on Nov. 10, the last day of the 42nd Annual Festival of New American Music. NorCal... dives into issues concerning one of California’s most important resources - water - and celebrates the beauty, complexity, and fragility of the Sacramento River Watershed. The ensemble realizes music derived from computer-animated maps of the watershed, overlaid by musical notation. Between movements, there are short video interludes featuring the ecological sounds found at a particular waterway. At these moments, the audience is invited to view on their mobile devices a short video (with its own soundtrack) accessible from my website, thus creating streams of audio-visual motivic echoes across the hall. The remaining videos in the playlist here constitute the media that I project and make make available on my website for the audience to view on their mobile devices.
For a movement-by-movement set of time-points, please visit this video of the piece on my youtube page.
The End Times Are a'Changin':
fantasia on a theme by Dylan (2018)
for guitar solo and socio-multimedia
The End Times Are a'Changin'
This piece was commissioned by Colin McCallsiter. It was is inspired by his intellectual interests in apocalypticism and medieval eschatology intersecting with my ever-evolving approach to stylistic mixture. The remaining videos in the playlist consiset of two other performances and the media that is projected on the screen in the hall. Related media is available on this webapp for the audience to play back on their mobile devices simultaneously.
Note: the score linked above will follow the order of movements that McAllister chose for the performance in the video.
Attitudes...Self Expression Concertante (2023)
for ensemble and live processing
This piece address the attitudes we posture in relation to our belief systems and the assumptions of their meanings. Imagine catching a glimpse of oneself unexpectedly in the mirror posturing a certain attitude, and having to reckon with ones contradictions. This metaphor is expressed though palindromic compositional procedures. Four distinct grooves/themes are featured, and each has a musical “attitude.” The material of these grooves are segmented and interpolated without transition. The material is presented forward and reversed, in both orignal and augmented durations. A computer assists in this 'mirroring' by sampling the players and playing back a collage of reflections (through a Pure Data patch).
Attitudes...Self-Expression Concertante
Note: the video player includes a playlist of other performances if the committee is interested. There is one of my work with my long-time duo partner, Dr. Colin McAllister, and two of the group that I direct, MUSIX. Enjoy!