Current Projects
new work for House on Fire Trio (three pianists doubling melodicas, pump organ, percussion, and cello), ~45'
Merrion River, fixed media, ~10 (2024, On Distant Keys: Y3K)
Tides of the Wolf, chamber opera, ~100' (2024, Carmina Escobar & Ghost Ensemble)
Selected Works
2023 The Privilege of Sand Dunes, baritone voice, trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, 20' (1 December 2023, Loadbang)
2023 Holocene Keen, chamber ensemble, 25' (29 July 2023, Composers Conference Ensemble)
2023 Portent of Laramidia, accordion, 25' (13 December 2023, Ben Richter)
2022 Rewild, chamber ensemble, 50' (19 December 2022, Ghost Ensemble)
2022 hyphauria, Renaissance and contrabass flutes, oboe d'amore, contrabassoon, alto trombone, cimbalom, theorbo, 15' (24 July 2022, Ensemble Linea)
2022 Whistwights, haegeum and accordion, 20' (22 February 2022, Jeonghyeon Joo)
2021 Time Whorl Canyon, accordion, banjo, mandolin, bells, teapot, 24' (May 2022, Music For Your Inbox)
2021 Silurian Cipher, French horn solo, 12' (28 April 2023, Daniel Costello)
2021 Susurra, six accordions, 8' (will premiere 2023, Ben Richter)
2021 Qualia, five accordions, 10' (28 April 2021, Ben Richter)
2021 Lark’s Plaint, three accordions, 4' (28 April 2021, Ben Richter)
2021 Respire, accordion solo, 8' (28 April 2021, Ben Richter)
2020 Plasmodial, five accordions, 12' (28 April 2021, Ben Richter)
2020 Procyon III, accordion solo, 14' (28 April 2021, Ben Richter)
2020 Pleistocene Plaint, bass flute, 12' (10 June 2021, Margaret Lancaster)
2020 Aurogeny II, viola solo, 15' (commissioned by Nigel Deane)
2020 Orogenesis, 13' (18 November 2020, CalArts faculty ensemble)
2019 Aurogeny, string quartet, 18' (will premiere 2023, Koan Quartet)
2019 Unearth, violin, viola, and orchestra, 10' (9 December 2019, Aperture Duo and CalArts orchestra)
2019 Divine Spaceship Archaeopteryx, electronics and percussion, 20' (25 August 2019, Richter/Douaihy/Kang)
2019 Exaltation, soprano voice, alto flute, oboe, percussion, viola, cello, two contrabasses, 15'
15 June 2019, Carmina Escobar with Ghost Ensemble
2019 Reluctant Gravities, bass flute, piano, percussion, 18' (16 April 2019, Feeney/Golia/Reyes)
2019 Time Folds, contrabass clarinet, accordion, flugelhorn, percussion, 15' (16 April 2019, Richter/Feeney/Golia/Reid)
2019 Green Sun, v-accordion and trumpet/electronics, 15' (16 April 2019, Ben Richter and Sarah Reid)
2019 Presage V, accordion, 10' (16 April 2019, Ben Richter)
version for accordion and euphonium (21 February 2020, Ruby the Grap!)
2018 Tethyscape, saxophones, piano/accordion, electric guitar, percussion, 19' (9 February 2019, Hypercube)
2018 Loon’s Wist, tuba, accordion, viola, contrabass, 12' (16 October 2018, Richter/McIntosh/Steenberge/Storm)
2018 practicing eternity, variable chamber ensemble, 12'–60' (6 January 2018, Ghost Ensemble and David Rothenberg)
2017 Aurorison, SATB choir, two cornetts, two baroque trombones, bass baroque trombone, positive organ, 11'
15 November 2017, Hudebni Soucasnost “Musicollage”, Canticum Ostrava & Capella Ornamentata
2017 Orrorin Keen, flute, bass flute, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, bass clarinet, trombone, bass trombone, 12'
28 August 2017, Ostrava Days, Ostravská Banda
2017 Cryptobiosis (Uncanny Sines), sine waves, 12' (18 July 2017, VU 2 Symposium, Katie Porter)
released on Panthalassa: Dream Music of the Once and Future Ocean, Infrequent Seams, 2017
2017 Panthalassa: Dream Music of the Once and Future Ocean, five accordions, 45'
version for solo accordion and fixed media (22 June 2017, Ben Richter)
version for accordion, fixed media, and ensemble (4 February 2020, CalArts ensemble)
2016 Wind People, flute, oboe, harp, accordion, percussion, viola, cello, two contrabasses, 22'
15 December 2016, Ghost Ensemble; released on We Who Walk Again, Indexical, 2018
2016 Wounded Keens, accordion solo, 30' (13 November 2016, Ben Richter)
2016 Herxheimer Doinas, accordion solo, 41' (recorded and released independently 2016, Ben Richter)
2016 Torneträsk, accordion solo, 9' (recorded 2016, Ben Richter)
2015 Emergence, guitar, accordion, electronics, 12' (28 November 2015, Richter/Motabar/Roessler)
2015 Rivulose, piano and orchestra, 16' (29 August 2015, Ostrava Days, Keiko Shichijo and Janaček Philharmonic)
2015 Water’s Edge, flute, clarinet, electric guitar, piano, percussion, violin, viola, cello, contrabass, 10'
28 February 2015, Wild Rumpus
2014 Samudra, flute, oboe, accordion, two percussionists, viola, cello, contrabass, 25' (4 December 2014, Ghost Ensemble)
2014 Star Maker, flute, oboe, four percussionists, viola, cello, contrabass, 15'
17 May 2014, Queens New Music Festival, Ghost Ensemble
2014 Mirovia, accordion and electronics, 20' (11 July 2015, Deep Listening Festival, Ben Richter)
2014 The Mooncalf Ciphers, trombone solo, 12' (24 February 2014, William Lang)
2014 Innominandum, bass clarinet, trumpet, two trombones, two percussionists, violin, cello, 10'
14 February 2014, S.E.M. Ensemble
2013 Destroying Angel, bass flute, oboe, harp, accordion, three percussionists, viola, contrabass, 25'
15 November 2013, Ghost Ensemble
2013 Farther Reaches, orchestra, 12' (31 August 2013, Ostrava Days, Ostravská Banda)
released on Panthalassa: Dream Music of the Once and Future Ocean, Infrequent Seams, 2017
2013 In The Dark You Can See Everything, violin and tape, 27' (5 April 2013, Inner Eye, Cornelia Zambila)
2013 Destabilization, electronics, 7' (11 July 2013, Deep Listening: Art/Science Festival, Ben Richter)
2013 Austeral, computer-processed Ghost Ensemble recordings, 35' (released on Deplorations, 2013)
2012 Healing Ghost, flute, oboe, harp, percussion, viola, contrabass, 25' (23 March 2013, Ghost Ensemble)
released on Ghost Ensemble and Lightbulb Ensemble, Indexical, 2015
2012 fear not becoming invisible, flute, clarinet, oboe, mandolin, guitar, piano, harp, percussion, violin, viola, cello, contrabass, 15'
8 June 2012, Nieuw Ensemble
2012 Inner Reaches, three accordions, two tam-tams, two snare drums, piano, 13' (7 June 2012, Den Haag unique ensemble)
2012 The Thing from Naught, string quartet, 9' (23 November 2013, members of S.E.M. Ensemble)
2012 Helias, computer-processed Ghost Ensemble recordings, 27' (released on Deplorations, 2013)
2012 Larus, computer-processed accordion recordings, 16'
2012 Silence II, computer-processed Ghost Ensemble recordings, 14'
2011 Ich Bin, two soprano voices, counter-tenor voice, tenor voice, traverso, two baroque violins, bass viol, 15'
28 November 2011, Den Haag unique ensemble
2011 was draußen ist, two accordions, 17' (4 August 2011, Toeac accordion duo)
2011 Strassburg Hymn, two soprano and two baritone voices, large chamber ensemble, 8' (18 April 2011, Ensemble Royaal)
2011 You Are Safe And Not Alone, open instrumentation, 30' (17 April 2011, Den Haag unique ensemble)
2011 In That Moment We Became The Firmament, piano solo, 3' (12 April 2011, Maya Verlaak)
2011 Tresnuraghes, mezzo-soprano voice and large chamber ensemble, 9' (3 April 2011, It Nije Ensemble)
2011 Oothoon, computer-processed choir and NASA rocket booster recordings, 15' (released on Deplorations, 2013)
2011 Dolor, computer-processed ensemble and choir recordings, 15' (released on Deplorations, 2013)
2011 Deploration, computer-processed choir and NASA Voyager magnetic field recordings, 22'
2010 The Elementals, harp solo, 20' (12 June 2010, Somna M Bulist)
2010 Song of Lost Jerusalem, soprano voice, flute, banjo, accordion, viola, cello, 20'
12 June 2010, Richter/Glenn/Ryan/Solberg/Whitener/Winn
2010 There is a Void Outside of Existence Which If Entered Into Englobes Itself and Becomes a Womb, chamber ensemble, 10'
12 June 2010, Acosta/Ding/Glenn/Kalish/Ryan/Solberg
2009 Göbekli Hymn, violin solo, 3' (12 June 2010, Emily Kalish)
2009 Closer to God, SATB choir, 3' (recorded 2012, Bremer/Martin/Nemeth/Schulz)
2009 Karlsruhe, langsam., accordion solo, 4' (recorded 2009, Ben Richter)
2008 The Four Zoas, orchestra, 14' (24 May 2008, American Symphony Orchestra)
2008 Antarctic Trilogy, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 12' (6 May 2008, Da Capo Chamber Players)
2008 Exoplanets, flute, violin, piano, 5' (17 March 2008, New York Miniaturist Ensemble)
2007 The Luminiferous Aether, large chamber ensemble, 15' (12 April 2008, Bard College unique ensemble)
2007 The Flight of Hope, viola and piano, 12' (12 April 2008, Siobhan Solberg and Wui-Ming Gan)
2007 Udan Adan, piano solo, 4' (27 October 2007, New York Miniaturist Ensemble)
2007 The Morning Star, alto flute, oboe, clarinet, piano, two violins, viola, cello, 16' (7 May 2007, Da Capo Chamber Players)
2006 Eight Readings of the Sacred Word, SATB choir, 22' (12 April 2008, Bard College unique ensemble)
2006 Elegy, accordion and cello, 8' (6 December 2006, Ben Richter and André Emelianoff)
2006 The Land of Dreams, SATB choir, 4' (4 April 2008, Bard College Chamber Singers)