Compositions

Lucidity

For trombone and electronic sounds.

The piece is a semi-programmatic dream sequence in two sections; the first section flaunts chasing rhythmic gestures, interweaving the trombone and synthesized sounds, while the trombone becomes the central timbre in the liberally synchronized second section. The electronically produced sounds maintain an aural illusion of recorded sound samples. [...]

Continue to Exist

for unaccompanied chorus (SATB w/ div.)

The work was premiered by the Indiana University Jacob's School of Music Contemporary Vocal Ensemble during the Midwest Composers Symposium November 11, 2011. Written several years previously, the text from Continue to Exist was rediscovered shortly before composing this work while vacationing in the secluded mountains of Colorado. Without light [...]