Music for Dance/Film/Spoken Word and Other Fun Things
• “Pretty” (2007) sound collage with girls’ voices 59” Vox Novus 60×60 Project, 2007 CD on Vox Novus label
• Groovla (2005) for viola and electronics 1’ Vox Novus performances in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, New York, St. Louis, Bucharest, Oakland, Minneapolis, Birmingham, Sydney, Gavle, Sweden and others 2005-6 Vox Novus Internet broadcast 2005-6 CD on Vox Novus label
• 56” of Creep (2004) for viola and electronics 56” Vox Novus 60×60 Project, Pacific Rim Composers, Los Angeles Harbor College, CA, Nov. 2004 Vox Novus Internet broadcast 2004-5 CD on Vox Novus label
• Suite for Air Mail Dances (2003) for viola and dancers 15’ commissioned by Axis Dance Company, choreography by Remi Charlip perf. by Axis Dance Company, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2003 California Arts Council “Hire Value” Conference, Oakland, CA, Nov. 2003 Remi Charlip, author/choreographer, 75th Birthday Celebration, Berkeley, CA, Jan. 2004
• Music for Living Wind Chimes, Dance and Poetry for Video Broadcast (2001) 30’ with members of Axis Dance Company and Sande Smith, poet David Stuvesant, directing, for Berkeley Community Media Nov., 2001
• Soundtrack for “Rust: animation/poetry/music video (1995) 3’
• Eagle’s Dance-for viola, clar., bass, spoken word and dancers (1995) 5’ (second section of work-in-progress based on Chaucer’s Dream Poem, “The House of Fame”), commissioned by Chaucer scholar, Anne Prescott Medieval Association of the Pacific Conference, Berkeley, CA, Mar., 1995 Giorgi Gallery Concerts, Berkeley, CA, April, 1995 Capitol Candlelight Concerts, Benicia, CA, Jan., 1996
• Soundtrack for Point Isabel Video Project: documentary (1994) 10’
• Uli’s Story- 3 dancers and solo viola (1994) 5’ Axis Dance Troupe, “The Way In”, Cal Performances, Berkeley, CA Feb., 1994
• Where My Home Used To Be-viola (opt. bass) and storyteller (1994) 20’ school performances, 1993-present Clairborn School, Pasadena, CA, Feb, 1994 Oakland Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Oakland, CA Summer, 1994 East Bay Performances Summer Music Camp, Berkeley, CA June, 1995 Library Showcase 1996, San Leandro, CA Mar., 1996 San Mateo Public Library, San Mateo, CA, July, 1996 private parties for children San Francisco Symphony Advertures in Music Program, April, 1998
• Adaptation of Michael Nyman’s “Miserere”- 2 voices, viola, cello (1996) 8’ commissioned by Axis Dance Troupe for “Hidden Histories”, Berkeley, CA, May, 1996
• How a Mosquito Operates (1997) commissioned by New Music Works 7’ for violin, clar, vibes, pno. scored to film by Winsor McCay (1912) dist. MMB Music, Inc. New Music Works, Santa Cruz, CA, April, 1997* New Music Works, Santa Cruz, CA, May 1997* Colorado Chamber Players, Denver, CO, March, 2008 available from: Sheetmusicplus.com|
• The Cameraman’s Revenge (1997) commissioned by New Music Works 12’ for violin, mandolin, cello, bass, clar, alto sax, pno, perc. scored to film by Ladislav Starevich (1912). dist. MMB Music, Inc. New Music Works, Santa Cruz, CA, April, 1997* New Music Works, Santa Cruz, CA, May 1997* available from: Sheetmusicplus.com|
• Open Secrets (1999) for solo viola, dancers and suitcase—continuing the Women in Black 13’ project, with Thais Mazur, choreographer, funded by Marin 21st Century Composer/Choreographer Collaboration Project and Marin Arts Council 2002 Honorable Mention, Composers’ Guild National Composition Competition 2003 Best Composition, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Music and Words Competition The Altenheim, viola + visual artist, Natalie Robb Oakland, CA Sept. 1999 Marin 21st Century Dance Collaboration, with Thais Mazur Dance Co., San Rafael, CA Oct. 1999 American Composers Forum Salon (w/ dancer), Berkeley, CA Nov. 1999 Women’s Center at University of Calif., Santa Cruz (for Int’l Women’s Day) Santa Cruz, CA March, 2000 Lauden Arts Center (for Int’l Women’s Day), Santa Cruz, CA March, 2000 available from: Sheetmusicplus.com|
• Event for Dance, Viola, Shaker and Meditation Bell (2001) 9’ collaboration with Nora Chipaumire, dancer/choreographer Berkeley Arts Center, Berkeley, CA Jan. 2001
• Incidental Music “Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend” (2001) commissioned by American Composers Forum, for clar, violin, bass, vibes, piano, scored to a film by Edwin Porter, 1906 6’ perf. Sprocket Ensemble, Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA June, 2001* available from:
|• Pecos Bill (2008) for string quartet and narrator 24’ (comissioned by Peter Gelfand and the San Jose String Quartet) available from:
|• Two Fables by Aesop (The Dove and the Ant/The Silkworm and the Spider) 14’ for narrator, oboe, perc., piano, violin, viola, bass commissioned by the Colorado Chamber Player Butterfly Pavilion, Denver, CO March, 2009 available from:
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