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Work Around The World Première at Other Minds 18

Amy X Neuburg (vocal and live electronics) and William Winant’s percussion ensemble premiere this new work, commissioned by the Other Minds Festival. America’s only international festival of avant-garde music returns with composers from the Faroe Islands, India, Spain, Canada, Sweden

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Disney Princess Disasters

Disney Princess Distasters is a humorous take on three traditional fairy tales about princesses. In the same way Disney changed these fairy tales to suit their own needs, I modified the stories from their original versions in order to create

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Schizo Psycho

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

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Halo Ballet (Bipolar Disorder NOS)

Credit for the idea of a Halo ballet goes to Gregory Oh, who commissioned the piece and arranged for me to work with choreographer Julia Aplin. To complement the unusual dance environment of the piece, I chose an unusual musical

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Halo Ballet on the X AVANT Festival’s Dance Dance Revolution

Gregory Oh and Toca Loca première my new piece, Halo Ballet (Bipolar Disorder NOS) on the X AVANT Festival’s all-dance programme. Halo Ballet is a piece for live performers (piano, keyboard, percussion, harp or guitar) and electronic dancers, performed in

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Love in the Time of Connectivity

Love in the Time of Con­nec­tiv­ity is a col­lage. In fact, even the title is a col­lage: I took the title of Gabriel García Márquez’s novel, Love in the Time of Cholera, and com­bined it with a ref­er­ence to the

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Culture no.2 (or, Shoot Like a Film Star)

This is the middle piece in my Cul­ture series, which is an explo­ration of the effects that today’s cul­tural con­text has on making our music what it is. The text for the piece is taken from a junk e-mail mes­sage—cer­tainly

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Recycled 80s Live

Recy­cled 80s Live is a col­lage of small frag­ments of ‘80s pop songs, recom­posed and recon­tex­tu­al­ized into a new, larger work. I chose this approach because artists have always bor­rowed mate­r­ial from one another, but copy­right is increas­ingly being abused

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Community-Normed

Only a small part of music is actually about sound. The majority of music-making has to do with social interactions more than anything else. Music fulfills certain functions (usually pre-determined) within certain social situations, or serves as a replacement for

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Jackhammer Lullaby

Jack­ham­mer Lul­laby is an arrange­ment of Community-Normed, which was com­mis­sioned by the Con­tin­uum Ensem­ble in Toronto in 2008. I’ve become increas­ingly inter­ested in pre­sent­ing pieces in mul­ti­ple ver­sions and com­bi­na­tions. Jack­ham­mer Lul­laby, with a few changes, is also the middle

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