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list of works with select documentation

Partition (Overlay) (2024)
five lines printed on five strips of transparency film with instruction card enclosed in a glassine envelope

Non-anthropocentric Music and Plant Acoustics (2024)
with Carla Cao
text, two readers, two-channel sound, and plants

Spree River Overlay (2024)
six cassettes, two cassette decks, digital sound, and PA system on one side of the Spree River, and four battery powered loudspeakers with digital music players playing filtered noise and pure tones on the other side of the river

"Untitled" (Hocket) (2024)
two or more woodblocks in a large, open space

Considering Non-anthropocentric Music (2024)
essay

"Untitled" (Sinfonia) (2023)
guitar
score

four pannels of snow (2023)
typewritten folio of staff paper

Landscape with Trees (2023)
35mm slides, projection lens, flashlight, cassette tape, electric guitar, two EBows, and voice
documentation

deus sive natura (2023)
ink on staff paper

unbranded range animals, and by extension, anything dishonestly obtained: a record (2023)
field recordings in one or more media

Music and the Weather (2023)
essay

How to Read a Book (2023)
text score collection for any number of books, readers, and miscellaneous instruments and objects
documentation

Luz, Clarão, Fulgor—Augúrios para um enquadramento não hierárquico e venturoso (Light, Blaze, Fulgor—Auguries for a Non-Hierarchical Framing and Flourishing) (2022–)
sound/score for film by Sílvia das Fadas (16 mm, single and two-channel)
four-channel sound, electric guitar, and readings of text by the filmmaker with sounds made from plant and geological matter
documentation

Light, Blaze, Fulgor / Electric Guitar (2022)
electric guitar
based on music composed for the film

The Things of a Landscape (2022)
object(s) and field recordings

off in the distance (2018/19/20/22)
six C52 cassettes and scores in a cloth covered box
documentation

negative transcriptions (Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels, 6-7 June 2021) (2021)
ink in pocket-sized notebook of staff paper, unspecified score
documentation

unbranded range animals, and by extension, anything dishonestly obtained: a landscape (2021)
twelve photographs, unspecified scores

unbranded range animals, and by extension, anything dishonestly obtained: a cartography (2021)
twelve maps for one to twelve readers

Sprites (2020)
ink on postcard, unspecified score
documentation

unbranded range animals, and by extension, anything dishonestly obtained: a chorus (2020)
forty-five poems for three or more readers

unbranded range animals, and by extension, anything dishonestly obtained: an essay (2020)
essay on 102 loose printed pages for one, two or three readers

the whole world a pictorial air. (Walden Pond) (2020)
58 photographs

a memory of sewage treatment (2020)
one or more sheets of tracing paper, score for writing

; a few walk across lots. (2019/20)
printed excised notebook paper with photographs, score for walking

for Guido (Self-Portrait in Arezzo) (2020)
102 photographs

das irdische leben | the earthly life (decomposition series) (2019)
engraved aluminum, burial, and reading with postcard, photograph, and 3D scans
documentation

, until the day and night come to an end. (2019)
organ, weights, people, and a day
documentation

a few encounters (2019)
pure tones, portable recording and playback devices, balloons, and moving listeners
score

unbranded range animals, and by extension, anything dishonestly obtained: a partition (2019)
eight fascimiles of annotated postcards, unspecified scores

intimacy (2019)
one or more listeners
score

oscillation (2019)
rope, clothespins, fan, and pastel chalk on thirty-five sheets of tracing paper

Port Angeles (2019)
four page inscription in a found guestbook, unspecified score

Stillleben (2019)
postcard, plastic film, tape, dust, and debris, unspecified score

2 tones (wow and flutter) (2019)
five C90 cassettes
documentation

3 positions (2019)
three sheets of engraved aluminum
documentation

"Untitled" (Time Capsule) (2019)
scores, prose, poetry, and photographs in a metal tin
with Ana Smaragda Lemnaru and David Pocknee
documentation

F105_165 (2019)
photograph and ink on plastic film, unspecified score

partitions (no. 4) (2019)
five photographs, ink on mirror, unspecified score

some sweet beautiful drag (2018)
corridor with fifteen windows, transducers, and pure tones
documentation

places (2018)
five sheets of engraved glass enclosed in a wooden box
documentation

records of-------------and its environs (2018)
performance with two 16mm film projectors, dictaphones and battery powered amplifiers, one tape deck, and score card
with Sílvia das Fadas
documentation

in the strict horizontal of it all: Cannon Beach (A) & El Capitán (B) (2018)
C90 cassette

fur trading: Forest Road 1100 (A) & I-5 Bridge (B) (2018)
C90 cassette

environs of miami (2018)
C90 cassette

elkmont at night (2018)
C90 cassette

partitions (no. 3) (2018)
ink on twelve skylights, unspecified score
documentation

, the day erased, (2018)
ink on four windows, unspecified scores
documentation

a hallucination (2018)
eight monoprints on orchestral staff paper, unspecified score

a small alteration in our local position (2018)
print on folded staff paper, unspecified score

appearing and disappearing (2018)
calling card, unspecified score

a relation to another (2018)
unspecified text score

form(s) (2018)
1,002 words on 26 sheets of paper

unbranded range animals, and by extension, anything dishonestly obtained: a list (2018)
book for one reader

partitions (no. 2) (2018)
ink on two windows, unspecified score

thirty-six rotational viewing sequences (or three concentric circles) (2018)
camera
score

thirty-six rotational viewing sequences (or three arcs dividing a circle) (2018)
camera
score

some clouds (no. 2) (2018/21)
ink on seven sheets of torn paper vellum enclosed in plastic bags in a box, unspecified score

some clouds (no. 1) (2018/21)
colored pencil on four sheets of torn paper vellum enclosed in plastic bags in a box, unspecified score

this phenomenon is thus analogous (2018)
paper vellum window curtain with waxed thread and colored pencil, unspecified score
documentation

the phenomenon repeats itself (2018)
paper vellum window curtain with waxed thread and colored pencil, unspecified score

every ringtone (2018)
one or more phones/people
score

sharp or rumbling (2018)
one or more people
score

volumes of space (2018)
people, a space, tone/sound, one or more days/weeks/years
score

the free air (2018)
text, reading, sounds derivative of air, one or more people, locations, environments, and occasions
score

nonrecording (field recording: driving from Miami to Vancouver, no. 2) (2018)
various matter and fluid in glass vials

nonrecording (field recording: driving from Miami to Vancouver, no. 1) (2018)
various objects in plastic bags

partitions (no. 1) (2018)
ink on eight postcards, unspecified scores

out of tune (2018)
car flag, photographs, unspecified score

Sonnenaufgang (2018)
warped vinyl record

a type of photography (2018)
twenty sheets of sun bleached cotton rag paper, unspecified score

Gradients (6:48:49 PM – 8:38:35 PM, 20 April 2018, Merrick Park, Coral Gables, Florida) (2018)
electric guitars
score documentation

Danza Ritual del Fuego (2018)
burnt score
documentation

Trapped in the Clouds, Pondering the Night (2018)
videos, field recordings with readings, augmented reality headsets/environment, chairs, fans, pill capsules, and sheets of drafting vellum
with Jon Paden
documentation

we meet at this window (2) (2018)
double-sided sheet of typed tracing paper, unspecified
documentation

gnomons (2018)
printed graph paper, sunlight, objects/phenomena/spaces, day(s), some liminal manner of observation/recording/transcription
score documentation

more heads in the clouds (2018)
bleached printed paper, ambiguous score
documentation

a luminous phenomenon (2018)
text, unspecified, ongoing realization with cyanotype prints
documentation

some paper (2018)
ten equally sized sheets of paper of various composition enclosed in a paper envelope of different composition, unspecified score
documentation

Bohemian Earth (2018)
engraving on a commercial paint swatch, text score
documentation

Mountain Canyon (2018)
engraving on a commercial paint swatch, text score
documentation

Darkening Sky (2018)
engraving on a commercial paint swatch, text score
documentation

Space (2018)
engraving on a commercial paint swatch, text score
documentation

Antique White (2018)
engraving on a commercial paint swatch, text score

(echo)location (2018)
audio recordings, headlamps, maps, and radios, site-specific
with Gustavo Matamoros
documentation

a type of cartography (2018)
double-sided sheet of printed and folded paper, unspecified score
documentation

NOTES (2017)
ink on notepad paper, unspecified score for chromatic pitched instrument(s)
score

a disk of limestone (2017)
sun bleached cotton rag paper and limestone, unspecified score

manifold, no. 3 (2017)
printed graph paper, unspecified score
score

the whole world a pictorial air. (2017)
printed excised notebook paper, viewer
documentation

, whenever and wherever, (2017)
ink on four sheets of cotton rag paper enclosed in a handmade bristol folder, unspecifie scored
documentation

we meet at this window (1) (2017)
double-sided sheet of printed translucent vellum, unspecified score
documentation

manifold, no. 2 (2017)
printed graph paper, unspecified score
score

There arose a great tempest in the sea (4) (2017)
bean pods
documentation

There arose a great tempest in the sea (3) (2017)
ten tree branches

There arose a great tempest in the sea (2) (2017)
five sheets of weathered paper with dirt, grass, leaves, and seeds, unspecified score
documentation

composed principally of mollusk shell and coral fragments (2017)
ink on two sheets of weathered paper, unspecified score
documentation

a hand out the window (2017)
digital video, silent, 64 minutes
documentation

Silver Star Mountain (2017)
four-channel sound
documentation

Impromptu (2017)
seven sheets of handmade paper, unspecified score for piano
documentation

transcripts (from Joseph Kudirka's untitled paper piece) (2017)
photocopies, rubbings, and tracings on paper of varying composition
documentation

nonrecording (3 performers pages 140-141 and 146-148 by Manfred Werder) (2017)
five receipts
documentation

transcripts (26 iv 17 los angeles - 1 v from notebook/reading list by Mark So) (2017)
ink and erased pencil on two double-sided sheets of paper and translucent vellum
documentation

folio (decomposition series) (2017)
decomposed double-sided folded staff paper, unspecified score
documentation

In a large, open space (decomposition series) (2017)
decomposed printed score, unspecified score
documentation

Bleachfield (a week among the trucks and the snakes) (2017)
weathered black cotton cloth, unspecified score
documentation

I love the sea (2017)
weathered printed score part, unspecified score
documentation

manifold, no. 1 (2017)
printed graph paper, unspecified score
score

Bleachfield (12 may 2017-) (2017)
weathered black cotton cloth in different environments, unspecified score
documentation

Books of Hours (2017)
series of hand-bound books, unspecified score
documentation

gradients (2017)
twelve color gradients on twelve sheets of paper, unspecified score
score

the sound of several letters (no. 2) (2017)
1000 sheets of printed paper
pdf

the sound of several letters (no. 1) (2017)
100 sheets of printed paper
pdf

witnessed in loss of slurred memory (2017)
one or more witnesses
score

nonrecording (Parameters IX: The Obscure Moon Lighting An Obscure World by David Pocknee) (2016-17)
roll of quarters
documentation

Apollo Beach (2017)
five sheets of weathered paper, unspecified score
documentation

Memory Studies: Recording Series (Beach Bums) (2016-17)
videos, audio recordings, photographs, postcards, notebooks, chalkboards, objects, conversations, and memories
with Maya Verlaak, Ana Smaragda Lemnaru, and Jorge Gomez Abrante
documentation

Country Gardens (decomposition series) (2017)
buried sheet music, map, and photographs
documentation

Can't Get You Out Of My Head (2017)
people and index cards
documentation

"You can't be killers all your life (2016)
two sheets of printed excised legal pad paper enclosed in a manila file folder, unspecified
documentation

Living in the memory of everything (2016)
one or more dictaphones
score

2 sounds (2016)
ink on four sheets of paper, unspecified score
documentation

Summer's here and the time is right (2016)
car window(s)
score

Everybody peepin' out they windows when they hear me beatin' up the street (2016)
car sound system
score documentation

Cruisin’ and playin’ the radio (2016)
car radio
score

The time will come when you add up the numbers (2016)
car radio
score

There arose a great tempest in the sea (2016)
six sheets of weathered paper, unspecified score
documentation

Lumus Park (2016)
10 CD-Rs
documentation

sheets (2016)
cloth sheets of different color, pattern, and size
documentation

Beach Bums (2016)
paperback book of text scores
book pdf

hearing voices where none exist (2016)
index card, unspecified score
documentation

seeing faces where none exist (2016)
index card, unspecified score
documentation

Black Flag Muted (2016)
html, javascript and youtube (online version) or digital video file (offline version)
documentation

Reading the Dictionary (2016)
one or more dictionaries
documentation

Pop Music (2016)
any number of explosions
documentation

Gone Fishin' (2016)
fishing poles, loudspeakers, and microphones
score

CHANGE 7 (2016)
sixty-four pieces for orchestra and coins
score

nonrecording (2 performers pages 474-478 and 2009/4 by Manfred Werder) (2016)
sand, mosquito, dried leaf, stone, dust, scrap of metal, snail shell, palm leaflet, Angel of God coin, and tequila cork in plastic bags
documentation

Heads in the Clouds (2016)
people and objects outdoors
score

experiments in alternate reality (2016)
people together indoors, one or more people indoors, one person alone indoors
documentation

Walking Listening (2014/16)
portable electronics containing GPS, LCD, microcontroller, and loudspeaker in open outdoor environments
documentation

47 Tucanae (2012/16)
violist(s), 17 music stands and a large, open space
score

interior exterior (2015)
piano and window(s)
score

5 staves (2015)
ink on five sheets of paper, unspecified score

All Together Now (2015)
soloist, audience, and electronics
score

Igneous (2015)
four performers, stones, tiles, and video
score audio

He has described a circle on the face of the waters, at the boundary between light and darkness (2015)
guitar, five metal pipes, and three sheets of sandpaper
score

One Million One Hundred Two Thousand Seven Hundred Forty-One (2015)
eight-string electric guitar(s)
score

preservation (2015)
unspecified
documentation

Harmonicum Accordion (2015)
four-channel sound for dance
with Jorge Gomez Abrante for choreography by Lazaro Godoy

einer reinschrift (2015)
piano

Forty-Three Thousand Five Hundred and Eleven (2015)
electric guitar(s)
score

All go unto one place (2015)
guitar
score

just another listening piece (2014)
one performer, one participant, two loudspeakers, and electronics
documentation

The Man Who Knew Too Much (2014)
two performers, megaphones, microcontrollers, microphones, and sensors
with Joel Ong
documentation

CHANGE 6 (2014)
two harmonicas and coins
score

The Cocktail Party Effect (2014)
text
pdf

Children, have ye any meat? (2011/14)
three voices and three environments
score audio

Orangerie Geometry (2014)
four radios in the gardens of the Darmstadt Orangerie
score

CHANGE 5 (2014)
flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and coins
score

CHANGE 4 (2014)
people and coins
score

blow draw (2014)
four harmonicas in an open space
score

Utility Poles (2014)
wood, loudspeakers, and electronics
documentation

Multiplicity (2014)
two interactive computer systems generating text scores

Tombeau de Mr. Francisque Corbet (decomposition series) (2014)
two sheets of a decomposed printed score, unspecified score
documentation

Three Blind Mice (2014)
three blindfolded performers, ultrasonic range finders, loudspeakers, microcontrollers, and noise
documentation

another type of counterpoint (2014)
ash in six plastic bags, unspecified score
documentation

Canons in D (2014)
html, javascript, and youtube
webpage

Some Spatial Abstractions (2013/14)
four radios, bows, objects, and laptops

empathy (2014)
two individuals
score

Guitar Swing (2013)
electric guitar, album covers, wood, and electronics
documentation

Experiments in Male Stupidity (2013)
three videos
with Jon Paden

Shoegaze (2013)
two performers, chalk, wood, fabric, loudspeakers, microphones, and electronics
with Joel Ong
documentation

Petty Crimes (2013)
coins, one dollar bills, bootleg Bob Dylan album, wire, wood, electronics
documentation

CHANGE 3 (2013)
one dollar bills, dc motors, wood, wire, and microcontroller
documentation

CHANGE 2 (2013)
computer(s) and coins
score

Text Score A Day (2012-13)
365 text scores
with Andy Ingamells, Ana Smaragda Lemnaru, David Pocknee, and Leo Svirsky
twitter account online calendar

Elements (2013)
19 loudspeakers, headphones, microphone, electronics, glass, wire, and wood
documentation

Art of Production (2013)
three loudspeakers, photographs, and scores
documentation

Drawing a Line (2013)
two performers, light organ, light sensors, loudspeakers, and electronics
documentation

Glass Onion (2012)
four performers, onions, lights, and electronics
with Acid Police Noise Ensemble
documentation

Cirle, Line, Point (2012)
three light-gagged vocalists, rice, wood, metal, and light organ

Light Organ (2012)
compact flourescent lamps, piezo discs, and electronics
video

"Untitled" (Sonata) (2012)
piano
score

Overdrive Preamp/250 (2012)
chamber orchestra
score

Our Century 21 (2012)
three performers, three loudspeakers, two microphone stands, and casted polyester resin
with Jeremy Jolley and John Teske

L'Ascension (2012)
piano
score audio

The Thermodynamics of Work (2012)
one performer, prepared guitar, snare drum, tambourine, coins, and bouncy balls
score

Stations (2011)
five performers, table, paint, wire, bows, fish, bread, and electronics
with Acid Police Noise Ensemble
video

Pars Pro Toto (2011)
five performers, ink on canvas, paper, glue, fish, fishbowl, fishing pole, fluids, and electronics
with Acid Police Noise Ensemble
video

Lucifer, the Scapegoat (2011)
part of Stockhausen Serves Terrorism: Ten Years of Sodom and Gomorrah
two clarinets, two saxophones, two trumpets, three performers, sound sculpture, fire, earth, and objects of charged violence
documentation

Radio Friendly (2011)
stereo sound

Whisper (2011)
stereo sound
with Acid Police Noise Ensemble

CHANGE 1 (2011)
loudspeaker(s) and coins
documentation

Glossolalia (2011)
voice, loudspeakers, three bowls, electronics, and modified dreamachine
documentation

Sacrament or: Meanwhile the earth has intercourse with the sun, and is impregnated for its yearly parturition (2011)
double bass, four performers with objects and electronics, two performers with portable loudspeaker/microphone systems, two performers constructing a sound installation, and no-input mixer
documentation

Second Proposition: Nothing is born from nothing (2011)
nine performers, silent disco system, tin cans, plastic cups, metal and nylon wire, wood, and electronics
with David Pocknee
video

Radio Geometry (2011)
radios

Discriminate Brutality (2011)
two prepared electric guitars
score audio

Potlach, a one-act aktionist chamber opera (2010)
five performers, double bass, guitar, vibrator, alcohol, food, drugs, and electronics
with Acid Police Noise Ensemble
video

The Last Supper (2010)
performer, food, and electronics
score

Kyrie (2010)
unspecified
score

Nuit or: That which is below is as above, and that which is above is as below. (2010)
spatial ensemble, electronics, and video
score excerpts audio/video documentation

Good Vibrations (2010)
piano, four assistant, electric guitar strings, vibrators, and piano construction
documentation

Damien Hirst Is a Fucking Fuck (2010)
three speaking voices and three laptops
with David Pocknee
audio

Oryza Sativa (2010)
hammond organ, two electric guitars, rice, bowls, and bows
score

To Hold a Lost God without Knowing How (2009)
ensemble
score

Signal, Entropy, Noise (2009)
guitar, five loudspeakers, and electronics
score

Cytokinesis (2009)
ensemble
score

In Other Words (2009)
soprano, two loudspeakers, and electronics

Interpolations (2008)
11-channel sound

Two Etudes (2008)
vibraslap, loudspeaker(s), and electronics

Claustrum (2007)
violin
score audio

Long Term Potential (2007)
improvising musician(s) and electronics

Circuits (2005/07)
two electric guitars and electronics

Morphogenesis (2006)
stereo sound

Spectre (2006)
two electric guitars, double bass, and electronics
with Jeremy Jolley and John Teske

Mersenne and One (2005)
two guitars and double bass
score audio

When a Vast Image (2005)
flute, percussion, violin, and cello
score

Music for Three Pianos (2005)
three pianos

Jackson Pollock's Lunch Break (2004)
guitar

Music for Three Cymbals (2004)
three cymbals
score