I'm also a composer of new music. Here's a complete chronological list of my compositions.
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Rule #17: At No Point May Both Feet Leave The Ground (in progress)
for electronics
Duration:
This Is Bliss (or "How to drown yourself in the ocean without anyone noticing.") (in progress)
chamber ensemble
Duration: 15'
The Moment I Last Touched The Ground (in progress)
for electronics
Duration: 7'00"
Peter's War (2006)
for electronics
Duration: 1'00"
Premiered: October 12, 2006, Romeoville, IL
Selected as part of the 60x60 concert series.
mp3: 2.29mb
Two Weeks Off The Ground (2006)
Instrumentation: Flute, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Trumpet, Trombone, Violin, Cello, Accordion, 2 Percussion
Duration: 8'30"
Premiered: April 26, 2006, Urbana, IL
mp3: 14.4mb
tether (2006)
...for Daniela Friedl & John Best
Instrumentation: Voice & Percussion
Duration: 8'
exhaust / exhale (2005)
Instrumentation: 2 Violin, Viola, Cello
Duration: 12'
at the gun-mouth of time (2005)
electronic symphony in four movements
Duration: 61'50"
I. mp3: 24.4mb
II. mp3: 25.2mb
III. mp3: 25.2mb
IV. mp3: 24.8mb
sitting before the gun-mouth of time (2005)
for electronics
Duration: 5'
Premiered: March 8, 2006, Urbana, IL
mp3: 6.41mb
The Crematory Fire Is Leaving Me Its Visiting Card (2005)
Instrumentation: Recorded Handmade Saxophones
Duration: 6'40"
mp3: 10.7mb
from monochrome into red (2004)
for electronics
Duration: 14'21"
Premiered: April 25, 2005, Urbana, IL
mp3: 26.3mb
Eyeshine Sparkles (2004)
I. A Moment of Repose (measure 15)
II. Respiro
III. This Can't Be An Afterthought
Instrumentation: 3 Flutes, 2 Bassoons, 2 Trombones, Bass Trombone, 3 Percussion
Duration: 12'
c'est juste une pensée après-coup (2004)
Instrumentation: Piano
Duration: 4'
...Le Lac scintillant (2004)
Instrumentation: Piano
Duration: 2'
Prevailing Emotion II: (2002)
Ruffneck Syncretism & The Tai-Chi Man
I. Everywhere I look I see death.
II. The Passing Night
III. Overcast Sunrise
IV. Occasional Tentative Moments
V. Take it away Mr. Beethoven.
(all movements played consecutively)
Instrumentation: Flute, Cello, Piano, Percussion
Duration: 7'
Premiered: November 4, 2002, Urbana, IL
mp3: 9.63mb
Cool Hand Lute (2002)
Instrumentation: Microtonal Midi Lute
Duration: 1'
mp3: 1.28mb
Bloodthirsty Chamber Music (2002)
Instrumentation: Microtonal Midi Ensemble
Duration: 2'
mp3: 2.65mb
A Certain Inevitable Futility In Indecision (2002)
Instrumentation: Microtonal Midi Ensemble
Duration: 4'
mp3: 5.60mb
A Visit To The Folks Place (2002)
Instrumentation: Microtonal Midi Ensemble
Duration: 3'
mp3: 5.01mb
Restrained Jubilation (2002)
Instrumentation: Microtonal Midi Ensemble
Duration: 3'
mp3: 4.07mb
Unrestrained Jubilation (2002)
Instrumentation: Microtonal Midi Ensemble
Duration: 3'
mp3: 4.46mb
The Death Of A Peacock - 3 pm, 17 Nov., 1913 (2002)
Instrumentation: Microtonal Midi Piano
Duration: 1'
mp3: 2.04mb
ALL 400 people only Introspect(ing) within somewhere (2002)
An improvisation for friends
Instrumentation: Any instrumentation (First performance - Flute, Sax, Circuit Bending, Cello, Double Bass, Bassoon, Viola, Piano, Musical Box)
Duration: Variable, 10'
Premiered: April 22, 2002, Urbana, IL
Graveyard Shift At The Seven Eleven (2002)
Instrumentation: Microtonal Midi Piano
Duration: 1'
Fred's Version Of A Doorbell (2002)
Instrumentation: Wall harp / Door string
Duration: February - May 2002: Installation at 707 W. Springfield Ave.
For Piano (2002)
I.
II. "88-tone"
Duration: Variable between 2 - 88'
Premiered: April 22, 2002, Urbana, IL
Other performances: May 2002, Champaign, IL
I. mp3: 1.0mb
Music For Six Performers (2001)
Instrumentation: Any six instruments
Duration: Variable, 12-15'
Premiered: April 22, 2002, Urbana, IL
mp3: 16.2mb
(2001)
Instrumentation: Electronic Composition
Duration: 5'
Premiered: Novemeber 5, 2001, Melbourne, Australia
Other performances: April 22, 2002, Urbana, IL
mp3: 8.19mb
Retrospection(s) (2001)
Instrumentation: Music for 2 performers on Flute, Trombone, and Percussion
Duration: 6'
Premiered: October 19, 2001, Melbourne, Australia
mp3: 9.46mb
Symphony No. 2 (2001)
Instrumentation: Full Orchestra
Duration: Variable, at least 30'
Fred's Wisdom Eye (2001)
Instrumentation: 2 Trombones, 2 Pianos, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello, and Tape
Duration: 11-14'
Premiered: September 3, 2001, Melbourne, Australia
mp3: 21.0mb
Somehow (2001)
Instrumentation: Female Voice, Alto Flute, Bass Flute, 2 Clarinets, Violin, 2 Violas, 2 Cellos, Double Bass, Vibraphone
Duration: 30'
Improvisation with Warren Burt II (2001)
Instrumentation: Trombone, Voice, Alesis AirFX Effects Unit
Duration: 5'
Premiered: October 29, 2001 - Interactive collaboration with Warren Burt for Wiseworld Salon, Collingwood, Melbourne
Piano and Sin Waves for 2 Performers (2001)
Instrumentation: Piano and Live Computer Manipulation
Duration: Variable, 10-30'
Premiered: August 6, 2001, Footscray Arts Centre, Australia, with Warren Burt on computer. A joint composition with Warren Burt.
Improvisation with Warren Burt (2001)
Instrumentation: Trombone and Live Computer
Duration: 30'
Premiered: August 6, 2001, Footscray Arts Centre, Australia, with Warren Burt on computer. A joint composition with Warren Burt.
ALL (2001)
Instrumentation: Percussion Quintet - Chimes, Glockenspiel, Vibraphone, Timpani, Woodblocks and Gong
Duration: 16-18'
Dragonflies At Night (2001)
Instrumentation: Full Javanese Gamelan
Duration: 8'
Premiered: April 22, 2001, Urbana, IL
400 people
only within
somewhere (2001)
Instrumentation: 2 Percussion, 3 Trombones, Tape
Duration: 8'
mp3: 4.55mb
Fred's Ridge on a Late Sunday Summer Afternoon in a Vermont Forest Clearing (2001)
Instrumentation: Tape
Duration: 10' (or may be an on-going installation)
Premiered: April 26, 2001, Urbana, IL
mp3: 16.1mb
A Defective (2000)
Instrumentation: Rebab, Bonang (Indonesian Gamelan), 2 Flutes, 2 Clarinets, 2 Trumpets, 2 Trombones, 2 Percussion, Piano
Duration: 8'
Premiered: February 26, 2001, Urbana, IL
mp3: 12.7mb
Abandon Stream Line (2000)
Instrumentation: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, French Horn, Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba, Marimba, Vibraphone, Piano, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello, Double Bass
Duration: 5'
mp3: 7.36mb
String Quartet No. 1 (2000)
In 5 Movements
Duration: 7'
The Interference of Light (2000)
Instrumentation: 2 Violins, Viola, Double Bass, French Horn, Piano, Mixed Choir, 2 Percussion
Duration: 4'
An Outpost Beyond the Last Lost (2000)
I.Strip Us Naked
II.Anti Human Rhapsodies
III.Alfred Schnittke
IV.Frank Zappa
V.Michael Hedges
Instrumentation: Brass Quintet
Duration: 7'
The Worm Garden (2000)
Instrumentation: Woodwind Quartet
Duration: 5'
Prevailing Emotion (2000)
In 3 movements
Instrumentation: Flute, French Horn, Cello
Duration: 10'
Introspection(s) (2000)
Instrumentation: Flute, Vibraphone, Bass Clarinet, 2 Cellos, Double Bass
Duration: 6'
mp3: 9.82mb
Beneath a Cloudless Sky (2000)
Instrumentation: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Tuba, 2 Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass
Duration: 6'
Gambang Impian (2000)
Instrumentation: Electronic Composition
Duration: 8'
Premiered: September 3, 2001, Melbourne Australia
mp3: 14.1mb
Lüftchen (2000)
Instrumentation: Violin, Cello
Duration: 10'
Premiered: May 1, 2000, Urbana, IL
mp3: 16.0mb
for l______ p______. (2000)
Instrumentation: Solo Soprano
Duration: 6'
Drifting (2000)
Instrumentation: Flute, Piano
Duration: 6'
Premiered: April 22, 2002, Urbana, IL
mp3: 8.27mb
Safe In Grandmother's Arms Again (2000)
Instrumentation: Flute, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Violin, Cello
Duration: 5'
The End of the Dream (2000)
Instrumentation: Soprano, Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon
Duration: 5'
Palliate (2000)
Instrumentation: Piano
Duration: 3'
Vincent? Is that you? (2000)
Instrumentation: Trombone Octet
Duration: 5'
Premiered: May 1, 2000, Urbana, IL
mp3: 7.46mb
The Death of All Things Pure (1999)
Instrumentation: Viola, Piano, Inside Piano, Sleeper
Duration: 5'
Piece for Solo Viola (1999)
Duration: 4'
The Complicated Futility of Ignorance (1999)
Instrumentation: Piano
Duration: 5'
Canon for Oboe and Trombone (1999)
Duration: 4'
Process (1999)
Instrumentation: Flute, Bassoon, French Horn, Cello
Duration: 4'
Aerialist - Holistic Impromptu (1999)
Instrumentation: Trumpet, Bassoon, Trombone, Timpani, Piano
Duration: 4'
Premiered: March 2000, Urbana, IL
Other performances: May 1, 2000, Urbana, IL
mp3: 7.05mb
Distant Visions (1999)
Instrumentation: Oboe, Cello, Piano
Duration: 4'
Premiered: May 4, 1999, Urbana, IL
mp3: 6.75mb
Piece for Solo Flute (1999, revised 2004)
...for Petra Music
Duration: 5'
Premiered: September 23, 2004, Urbana, IL
Other performances: April 30, 2006, Chicago, IL
Other performances: May 1, 2006, Urbana, IL
mp3: 9.84mb
Piece for Solo Violin (1999)
Duration: 5'
Organ Trio (1998)
Duration: 5'
Intensity (1998)
Instrumentation: 3 Violins, Electric Bass
Duration: 2'
Zingaro Night (1998)
Instrumentation: 2 Trumpet, French Horn, 2 Trombones, Tuba
Duration: 5'
Village of the Watermills (1998)
Instrumentation: Full Symphonic Wind Band
Duration: 6'
Rememberance (1998)
Instrumentation: Bassoon, Baritone Saxophone
Duration: 5'
Light Up the Sun (1998)
Instrumentation: Full Jazz Band
Duration: 5'
Maestro (1998)
Instrumentation: Full Symphonic Wind Band
Duration: 7'
Composed with Mike Greco
Dark Shadows (1997)
Instrumentation: Flute, 2 Guitars
Duration: 4'
Premiered: 1997
Composed with Erik Grant