Schizo Psy­cho is based entirely on mate­r­ial from Bernard Herrmann’s score to Alfred Hitchcock’s movie Psy­cho. A 40-second clip of the movie plays repeat­edly, with the ensem­ble pro­vid­ing dif­fer­ent “per­son­al­i­ties” on each rep­e­ti­tion. All mate­r­ial is taken from the orig­i­nal score, but it is trans­formed in some way to cre­ate very dif­fer­ent musi­cal tex­tures. Thus, I use some of the char­ac­ter­is­tic symp­toms of the schiz­o­phre­nia spec­trum dis­or­ders as guid­ing prin­ci­ples in the arrange­ment of the musi­cal mate­r­ial, cre­at­ing both a play on words and a musi­cal struc­ture for the composition.