Audio – Compositions

I compose both acoustic music and electronic music, especially for the electric guitar with digital processing.

Videos can be seen on the “Videos” page. Some audio recordings:

Electric Guitar (self-performed):

2021 album Electric Currents:

2023 piece “Locating Echoes”, from the Ottawa Experimental Music Comp II compilation:

Ripples and Refractions, a two-piece EP for solo electric guitar with real-time looping and processing, on the melodic side, available for purchase via Bandcamp (2015):

Three movements from my 2011 dissertation –
“Tension and Extension”, for prepared electric guitar (with no processing),
“Three of Jacks”, a digital piece created with classical guitar samples,
“Send Me a Signal”, for live solo electric guitar with signal processing:

Classical Guitar (self-performed):

Dissociation, an octatonic fugue for classical guitar (composed 2014, recorded 2017):

Acoustic Compositions (other performers):

Warp, a classical guitar duo focused on the sound of harmonics, particularly the fifth one; performed by Adam Cicchillitti and Steve Cowan (composed 2018, recorded 2019):

Diminished but Returning, for string quartet (performed by Madawaska String Quartet, 2006):

Eight in Five, a fugue for piano (perf. Chris Goddard and Penny Johnson, composed 2012, recordings 2013-2014)

The Anger Loop, for soprano (perf. Sarah Albu, 2015)

Deadlines and Intersections, for violin and prepared piano (2014):

Turning Untrustworthy, a miniature for piano (perf. Julia den Boer, 2008)

Electronic (sequenced):

Microtonal synthesizer drone piece from 2000:

Arrangements:

Multitracked electric guitar/bass arrangement of an excerpt for Schubert’s Piano Sonata in Bb, commissioned for the podcast The Akerman Year (2021) (https://open.spotify.com/show/00BFDrhXhoLMEZI0MEmJdQ?si=0b4db4860dbd4c0b):

Solo electric guitar/live electronics arrangement of Wayne Shorter’s “Footprints” (2023):