INDEX OF COMPOSITIONS
MAP SCORES - SOLO (2006 - 2018)
#1 BOULOGNE for Kristen Miltner (electronics)
#2 ST. DENIS for Shayna Dunkelman (percussion)
#3 ASNIERES for Mary Halvorson (guitar)
#4 NEW YORK CITY I for Jon Raskin (saxophone)
#5 NEW YORK CITY II for Aurora Josephson (voice)
#6 TOKYO for Philip Gelb (shakuhachi)
#7 VENEZIA for Liz Allbee (trumpet)
#8 ANTARCTICA for Phillip Greenlief (clarinet)
#9 MAINE for Bb Clarinet (for Claudia LaRocco)
#10 MAINE (#2) for Bb Clarinet (for Richard La Rocco)
#11 THE FIFTY STATES for Tenor Saxophone
#12 YERBA BUENA for Tenor Saxophone (commissioned by SOMAarts)
#13 THE GRAND CANYON AND ENVIRONS for Lisa Mezzacappa (solo contrabass)
#14 MODOC NATIONAL FOREST FOR Bb CLARINET
#15 HERE AND THERE FOR SOLO TENOR SAXOPHONE
#16 LAND AND SEA FOR CHERYL LEONARD (commissioned by ARC gallery, SF)
MAP SCORES - ENSEMBLES (2007 - 2020)
#1 PARIS for 2 + 2 (for Margaret Greenlief)
#2 TOKYO for duo b (for Setsuko Hara)
#3 ROMA for Citta di Vitti (for Monica Vitti)
#4 FIRENZE 2 for FPR Trio (for Dante Aligheri)
#5 OAKLAND for Any Ensemble (for Darren & Sarah @21 Grand)
#6 LONDON for shudder (dedicated to Francis Bacon)
#7 BERLIN for 2+2 (dedicated to Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
#8 SAN FRANCISCO for ROVA Saxophone Quartet (dedicated to Lenny Bruce)
#9 QUARTET: SOUTH CENTRAL SOVIET UNION, CHINA & MONGOLIA, CENTRAL & SOUTHERN ARGENTINA,
EASTERN BRAZIL - poetry by Claudia LaRocco (dedicated to Roberto Bolano)
#10 MUIR WOODS for 2+2 with poets (Claudia LaRocco and Elizabeth Robinson)
(dedicated to Agnes Varda)
#11 THE STATES UNITED - for any instruments or performers
(dedicated to William S. Burroughs)
#12 BELLINGHAM FOR DAVID IRELAND - commissioned by 500 Capp Street Foundation
(dedicated to Bill Berkson and Pauline Oliveros)
#13 THE KNOWN UNIVERSE FOR OLIVIA - commissioned by claudia la rocco/the lab, sf
#14 EL PUEBLO DE NUESTRA SENORA LA REINA DE LOS ANGELES DEL RIO PORCIUNCULA for PG LRG
#15 NOVA SCOTIA for jazz ensemble (dedicated to Sam Wilson)
#16 SAINT PETERSBURG for chamber orchestra (dedicated to dmitri shostakovich)
GRAPHIC SCORES
NO NAME (for Gyorgi Ligeti) for three musicians
TWAS - for any ensemble (for Ella Sevaried)
BARBEDWIRE - 37 graphic scores for three musicians
INDEX (2016) Text Score for any instrument(s) or performer(s) (Spanish Translation 2024)
TRIPLICATE - 3 time-based graphic scores for solo, duo or trio
BARBEDWIRE TOO - 18 graphic scores for two musicians
WAVES (for any two instruments)
SIGN - for any ensemble (2021)
FOR JAZZ ENSEMBLE (1980 - 2020)
Wall Peeler
Those Golden Ornate Leaves
Veruschka
Entre Amis
Carousel
Initiation Dance
26 MLG
Nancy's Crayolas
Lebanon for Lovers
The Ghosts of Politicians Slip Into Something More Comortable
Agon Takes A Holiday
Prayer for Atlanta
A Strange Hipnosis
Leaving the Farm
Tin Traps
She Don't Love
Verve (for Mike McHam)
Sun on Bijou
Feat
Charleston Awnings
Miles from Wichita
The Open Letter
Beckett, Black and Blue
With Frau Grubach
In Fraulein Burstner's Room
Tango for Joan Didion
Angles (for Lutoslawski)
Pavement
A River in Your Shoes (for Joan Didion)
Beauty is a Rare Ticket That Exploded
(concerto for sextet in three movements)
Requiem for a Young Girl (for Adrienne Kelley)
(commissioned by Western Oregon University)
Cruddy (for Lynda Berry)
Teeter Totter
That Song About the Girl from the Ural Mountains
Zeemoy (for Yelena Kolokolnikova)
Twistin' with Susan
Happiness (for David Boyce)
Zombie Fresh
Five - for John Shiurba & Val Esway
You Are All the Things
Cowgirl - for Lucinda Williams
Eclipse - for Jean-Pierre Melville
Egalite - for Kathy Blackburn
Valley of the Dolls
Pancake Circus
Nineteen Seventy Seven
The Graceful Claud
Cabriole Second Avenue for Claudia La Rocco
Claudia on Grizzly Peak
Lester Leaps Out
Coruscant
Candyland
Bluesing
Return Flight
Checkmate (for Roberto Bolano)
The Taft Point Orogeny
Birdwatching
It Isn't Your Birthday Yet
Silver Cloud for Sonny
Lament
Slippery
Return to Nearly
A Rainy Distance
Spiders (revised 2020)
How High The Bird?
MM
Dark Scott Blues
A Tarantula Named Tiny
That No-Account Praire Chicken
Deecha
MC
Maine on the Train
Carol (for Patricia Highsmith)
MUSIC FOR CITTA DI VITTI (2006 - 2009)
38 Works for Trio inspired by films of Michelangelo Antonioni, feat. Monica Vitti
PORTRAITS OF EXTRAORDINARY CHILDREN - for trio (2000)
Portrait of Esma Saeed
Portrait of Arliss Daniels
Portrait of Saushe Young
Portrait of Michael Williams
Portrait of Andrew Kelley
(commissioned by Oakland Cultural Arts Fund)
PG & COVERED PAGES (1998 - 2000)
Portrait of Anna Ahkmatova
34 Plechanova Ulitza, kb 7
Wherewithal (for Dmitri Shostakovich)
Cathedrals of Novgorod
Little Vacationing in Chechnaya
Folk Songs I - V
MUSIC FOR PG13 (2009 - 2022)
The Totally Unbelievable but Absolutely True Adventures of George Cleaver the Cat
Eight compositions for electric trio (amplified alto saxophone, electric guitar, drums)
FOR SAXOPHONE
SOLO
All Those Trees (1978)
Song for B (1978)
Varushka (1979)
Waul Peeler (1981)
Where's Harold? (1982)
Kathy's Lampshades (1983)
Painted Lightly (1992)
St Louis (1995) - dedicated to William S Burroughs
Letter to James Joyce (1996)
Cries or Whispers for Harriet Anderson (2002)
Stalking Andrei (2003)
Empty Room (2005)
The Fourth World (2006)
Whispers (2007)
Seven Graphic Scores (dedicated to Eva Hesse) (2007)
No Stolen Sisters (2015)
Swept and Liquid Along the Pale Roads (Concert Piece) for Thomas Pynchon (2016)
An Opening (for nicole) (2017)
Glimmering (2019)
Consequence (2020)
ETUDES
Four Etudes (2009)
06/22/2011
10/01/2011
10/02/2011
10/17/2011 (alt. version for clarinet)
10/19/2011
10/21/2011
11/20/2011
06/09/2012
10/15/2012
11/09/2012
8/2013
12/07/2013
12/08/13
12/26/13
1/2/14
1/18/14
Etude 21 (12/2015)
Etude 22
Untitled Study for Clarinet #1 (2016)
SICILIAN GIRL ETUDES (etudes in harmonic minor)
#1 - G# minor
#2 - D minor
#3 - C minor
#4 - G minor
#4b - G minor (II)
#5 - F# minor
#6 - A minor
#7 - F minor
#8 - E minor
#9 - Bb minor
TIMBRAL STUDIES
Landscape 1
DUOS
Garden (1978)
Stranglehold for John Cassavettes (2009)
Children in the Fields (2014)
Leap Frog for Gena Rowlands (2016)
TRIOS (FPR)
Butterfly I (2009)
PYNCHON PIECES (2013)
The Yashmeen Wiggle
Traverse the Webs
So Long, Cyprian
QUARTETS
The Wake (1987)
Quartet I (1988)
Quartet II (1989)
The Empty Room for Angela Davis (for saxophone trio) (2005)
By the Nose (2007) dedicated to Thomas Pynchon
ARRANGEMENTS FOR QUARTET
Silence (Charlie Haden)
Ida Lupino (Carla Bley)
Hungarian Dances (Bartok)
6 Fugues from Well Tempered Clavier, by JS Bach
Pannonica (Thelonious Monk)
That Song About the Girl from the Ural Mountains (PG)
Crepescule with Nellie (Thelonious Monk)
CLARINET SOLO
Loss
An Opening
Untitled Study for Clarinet
ANTICIPATE - Four 12-tone themes for Bb Clarinet (2020)
Consternation
CLARINET DUOS
3 Sketches for Brothers K (1996)
Sarah's Call (2001)
Edna's Crossing (2001)
Studies I - V (2002)
Chromatic Study (2003)
High Wire Act (2006)
Butterfly (2009)
FOR THEATER
Music for Macbett, by Eugene Ionesco (1994) - with Rough and Tumble
Music for The Trial, by Franz Kafka (1995) - developed with Rough and Tumble
Music for Voltaire's Candide (2008) - with Rough and Tumble
Music for Ionesco's "Rhinoceros" (2008)
Music for "The History of Human Stupidity" (2010) - with Rough and Tumble
FOR FILM
Music for "Dream with the Fishes", a film by Finn Taylor (1998) - Sony Pictures
Music for "Tango" (1999)
Music for "Experiment" a film by Mike Kuchar (for shudder) 2011
FOR DANCE
Music for Cries and Whispers for Harriet Anderson - duo with Katie Faulkner (2000)
CROSSING - duo with Claire Elizabeth Barratt (2008)
Music for Michelle Ellsworth's CHOREOGRAPHY GENERATOR (2015)
Marfa Sounding -with Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Reiner - for Anna Halprin (2017)
FOR LARGE ENSEMBLE
The Signal Meditation (for Myles Boisen) (2005)
The Empty Room II (2005)
Compound I for Matthew Sperry (2005)
Compound II for Angela Davis (2006, revised 2009)
02091927 (for Margaret Greenlief) (2007)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Accordion (for Marjane Satrapi) (2008)
In Between (commissioned by Oakland School for the Arts) June 2008
Bellbottom (2009)
Fantasy for Percussion and Orchestra (2009)
Monument for Eva Hesse (Fantasy for Electronics and Orchestra) (2009)
M (for Margaret Greenlief) 2009
Lynched! (for David Lynch) 2009 (revised 2010)
Sonnets for Orpheus (setting of part 1, #3) for orchestra and choir (2010)
The Emily Project - setting of 9 poems by Emily Dickinson for Orchestra and Choir (2012)
Three Trains for Orchestra: I: the morning train II: the afternoon train III: the evening train (2015)
VIDEO SCORES
Concrete Blonde - video score for electro-acoustic sextet
(shudder plus aurora josephson - voice, tim perkis - electronics, john shiurba - guitar)
LITERARY ADAPTATIONS
Love Songs to the Episodes of James Joyce's Ulysses (1989 - 1994) (for jazz ensemble)
Flowers for Mrs. Dalloway (1995) (for trio)
Music for The Wasteland (1996) (for piano, flute and Bb clarinet)
Music for Rilke's Duino Elegies (1997 - 1999) (for flute, clarinet and alto saxophone)
ARRANGEMENTS
44 Violin Duos (Bela Bartok) - arr. for 2 Bb clarinets
(with Cory Wright) (2000 - 2007)
Pierrot Lunaire (Schoenberg) - for double trio (1996)
Hindemith: Oboe Sonata (arr. for soprano saxophone) (1987)
Handel: Oboe Sonata (arr. for soprano saxophone) (1987)
JS Bach: 6 Canons from The Art of Fugue
(for soprano saxophone and french horn) (1988)
Charles Ives: Second String Quartet (for saxophone quartet) (2003)
ARRANGEMENTS for Orchestra Nostalgico (film music)
Suite of themes from NIGHTS OF CABIRIA - a film by Federico Fellini, music by Nino Rota
Title Theme from JULIET OF THE SPIRITS - a film by Federico Fellini, music by Nino Rota
Suite of themes from INTERVISTA, music by Giovanni Fusco
Title Theme from PSYCHO, music by Bernard Hermann
Title Theme from L'AVVENTURA, by Michelangelo Antonioni, music by Giovanni Fusco
Title Theme from L'Eclisse, by Michelangelo Antonioni
Title Theme from LA STRADA, by Nino Rota
Title Theme from TOUCH OF EVIL by Henry Mancini
MISCELLANEOUS
Loss version 1 for clarinet duo (2000)
Loss version 2 for wind trio of alphaville (2001)
Loss version 3 for FPR (2006)
Something Bad - for saxophone sextet (2006)
Cascando for Santyajit Rey - cello trio (2007)
8 Neo Baroque Duos (for any treble clef instruments) (2010)
Fanfare, Procession, Courante, Menuet 1 & 2, March, Sarabande, Gigue
gracefully - for solo piano (2011)
61 Low-end exercises for saxophone (2012)
sixty seconds - 60 1-minute impromptus for any instrument (2012)
55 Palm-key exercises for saxophone (2016)
TAKUSKANSKAN AWAKENS - for solo viola (2020)
Consider - text score for any ensemble (2022)
A Rainy Distance - for any two treble clef instruments
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