Year composed: 2010Duration: 1′ or 7′Instrumentation: tape 1′ version written for the Vox Novus 60×60 project, international mix for the Statford Circus, Theatre Square, London E15 1BX, July 2010 World premiere of 7′ version at the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, June 2010 Notes: My daughter brought a…

Year composed: 2011Duration: 1′Instrumentation: tape Written for the Vox Novus 60×60 Athena mix, Dinu Lipatti Concert Hall, National University of Music, Bucharest, Romania, May 2011 Notes: There are three lines of text in this short tape, taken from T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, “I do not know much about gods, but I think that the river…

Concerto for piano/keyboard sampler and twelve performers Year composed: 2013Duration: 23′Instrumentation: piano/keyboard sampler with flute (bass flute, piccolo), oboe (English horn), clarinet (Bass clarinet), horn, harp, percussion, 2 violins, viola, cello, and double bass Movements:I. Dark, racingII. MercurialIII. Quirkly, like a turning wheelIV. Slowly revolving, wistfulV. Quick and quirky, as beforeVI. Brash Notes: For Gloria…

Year composed: 2014Duration: 8′Instrumentation: piano/keyboard sampler Premiere “La Cigüeña” at the Center for New Music, San Francisco, CA Jenny Q. Chai, Piano Steampunk Notes: dropping true as Earthla cigueña flies an iridescent spiralshining white deep blue-greenan opal of great price givento one whose luminous workyou may look into but never through–John Campion Several years ago…

Year composed: 2009Duration: 9′Instrumentation: trombone with live electronics Notes: Commissioned by and dedicated to Abbie Conant. Premiered in Trossingen, Germany, November 2000. back to full catalog

Year composed: 2003Duration: 4′Instrumentation: flute with electronics Notes: The Other Side of the World is a meditation on loss. In this work for flute and tape, I use three poems by John Campion which address the conquest of Native American culture by Europeans, and its resulting ecological devestation. The first poem speaks of the destruction…

Year composed: 1990Duration: 5′Instrumentation: violin Notes: Premiered by Naomi Katz at the Charles Ives Center for American Music, 1990. Dedicated to the memory of Eric Heckard. back to full catalog

Year composed: 2006Duration: 5′Instrumentation: amplified troubadour harp Commissioned by harpist Victoria Jordanova and recorded on “In a Landscape” album (ArpaViva). Notes: Hierosgamos IV is a short work for celtic (troubadour) harp written for my friend and colleague Victoria Jordanova. It is adapted from one of the etudes in my large-scale piano collection Hierosgamos: Seven Studies of Harmony…

Year composed: 1993Duration: 9′Instrumentation: pianist and interactive Yamaha Disklavier Notes: Realized at the Center for New Music and  Audio Technology with a grant from the Committee on Research, UCB. Premiered by Cindy Cox at San Jose State University, November 1993. Darsana I is an interactive composition which makes use of MAX’s score following capabilities. MIDI…

Year composed: 2007Duration: 4′Instrumentation: amplified troubadour harp Commissioned by harpist Victoria Jordanova and recorded on “In a Landscape” album (ArpaViva). Notes: The blackbird whistling/Or just after is a short work for celtic (troubadour) harp written for my friend and colleague Victoria Jordanova. The piece was adapted from the original piano version, and the title was…