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Compositions

2001

LES SALTIMBANQUES (Inspired by Rilke's Fifth Duino Elegy)
Theme for les Saltimbanques
Alas, and Round this Center the Rose of Onlooking Blooms and Unblooms
the Threadbare Carpet
the Acrobat’s Smile
the Son of a Neck and a Nun
the Green Metallic Silk, these Endless Ribbons
Before a Single Pain Has Got Within Range of Your Ever-Galloping Heart
Theme for les Saltimbanques

SKETCHES OF CATALONIA, VOL. 1: SUITE FOR SALVADOR DALÍ

Galatea of the Spheres
Portrait of My Dead Brother
the Hats
Exploding Head in the Style of Raphael
Telephone Grilled Sardines at the End of September
the Chemist of Figueras Looks for Nothing at All
Family of Marsupial Centaurs
Milking the Cranial Harp

SKETCHES OF CATALONIA, VOL. 2: SUITE FOR JOAN MIRÓ

Dutch Interior
Burnt Picture
Ladders Cross the Sky in a Blue Wheel of Fire
Dona Del Càntir
Dancer
the Red Sun
Harlequin’s Carnival
Catalan Peasant in the Moonlight
Sobretexeim
Hope


SKETCHES OF CATALONIA, VOL. 3: SUITE FOR ANTONI GAUDÍ

Feathers in a Cap
Mudéjar Nights
Toadstool Mosaic
La Pedrera
Bellesguard
Elephants and Dinosaurs
Parable
El Cant dels Ocells (traditional)
Park Güell
Dragon Gate
the Goat

BLUE RIDER SUITE (For Paul Klee)
Little Jester in a Trance
the Tightrope Walker
Diana
Little Bluedevil
Gate of the Abandoned Garden
Senecio
Three Subjects, Polyphony
Red Waistcoat


2002

Flood's Mood

BASS CLEF CLUB
Low Life
Snorkel
the Pines
Dewey Dell

Squamata
Crocodilia
Savory
Wilma
Wig


DANCE OF THE HOURS (For James Joyce)
Kalupto (Island of the Hiding Place)
the Lotus Eaters
MacIntosh
Virágé


2003

High Tail

ANIMATIQUE (Suite for David Beck)

L’Éléphant Blanc
La Pêche Qui Vole Du Ciel
La Petite Pêche Énorme
Le Papillon du Rue de Mariposa
Mothcanique IV
Moth en Stereo
Animatique

FOR MOXIE CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Arnie
Kern
Nibblin’
Temple of Neptune
Throg
the Venutians

BLUE RIDER SUITE (For Wassily Kandinsky)
With Three Riders

FOR MOXIE QUINTET
Desert Canto
Have You Seen the Poodle
MHM
Throg

FOR MOXIE SEXTET
Ghoti
Matilda
the Red Sun
Whirligig
Without Whom . . .
Sam


2004

7 DAYS IN FEBRUARY

Black Cat
More Fun
Fork
Hi Jinx
Rufus
Let the Cosmics Lead
Bear Den

HAIKU SONGS

Puppeteer
the Banyan Tree
Runcible Spoon in the Road
Four Mile Lake
Two Pine Needles
Haikyu
Suitcase
Wu Wei
Seven Sailing Ships

2005

Artemis
the Little Mornings

BIRTHDAY SUITE 2005
McMuggles
Nino
XP
GG Moogly
Pergamino
Dibbled Parsnips
Toledo

HOMAGE TO CATALUNYA
L'Alt Empordà
Portrait of Las Ramblas
Dona del Càntir
La Manzana de la Discordia
Birds of Girona
Park Güell

BLUE RIDER SUITE (For Wassily Kandinsky)
Some Circles
Sotto Voce

PECULIAR LITTLE CREATURES (for string quartet)
Straw for Hats
Millet
Kohhari
Happy Geek
Anton's Baguette
Green Dragon

the JUGGLERS (for electric quintet)
Spider Monkey
the Bubble
Slow Burn
Fronds
Top Knotch
Windmills


2006

Athenian Birds
Kamilopárdali
Reverie


2007


For Fusco: soundtrack for an imaginary Antonioni movie
Blue Nowhere
Red Eleven
Joss House
Two Bits

BLUE RIDER SUITE (For Wassily Kandinsky)
the White Line
Improvisation Deluge/Composition VI
Little Joys
Dominant Curve
St. George
Red Oval
Calm Tension
In Blue
With Three Riders
Some Circles
Sotto Voce

EURYDICE (for string quartet)
Andante
1st Interlude
Adagio
2nd Interlude
Funèbre


THE MELANCHOHOLICS
(co-written with David Beck)
Mevil
Some Season, Some Place

 
2008

What the Water Gave Me (for Frida Kahlo)

L’OPÉRA


BIRTHDAY SUITE 2008
Squirky
Faux Toe
Mixed Curse
the Eel
Gangurru
Blue Moose Over Miami
Daguerréotype
Ursula


LA NATURECANIQUE (another suite for David Beck)
L'Elephant Agreable
Pechecanique
Piranhacanique
Poissoncardre
Pechebibliotheque Mobile
Fishtych
Mothcanique III

BLUE RIDER SUITE (For Franz Marc)
Birds
Broken Forms
Caliban
Cats on a Red Cloth
the Enchanted Mill
Gazelles
the Mandrill
the Tower of Blue Horses

2009

Circus Ditty
Eulogy
999
Thule

THE COMMANDMENTS or the Nostril of Ektor Kaknavatos
(music for a film by Niko Koumoundouros)

SEVEN SONGS IN SEVEN DAYS (Birthday Suite 2009)
Gatoulis
Spinning the Wheel/s
Gateway
Blue Screen
Serpent
Giraffe Before Coffee
Pomegranate

SKETCHES OF CATALONIA, VOL. 4: SUITE FOR ANTONI TÁPIES
Jeroglíficos
El Arco Azul
Alcornocal
Materia en Forma de Nuez
Espalda
Collage del Papel Moneda
Caja de Cordeles

THE MELANCHOHOLICS
(co-written with David Beck)
She Wore a Dress the Color of Paprika (a spice I'd love to get to know)
Something You Know
Three-Legged Waltz
Way Gone, Cool Cool Cat

 
ARIADNE (a quartet in six movements)
Mistress of the Labyrinth
Theseus in the Labyrinth
the Duel
Death of the Minotaur
Ariadne's Thread
Caja de Cordeles

druidh lacunae

Kamilopárdali
Athenian Birds
L’Éléphant Blanc
Desert Canto
Whirligig
What the Water Gave Me
Nino
XP
Virágé

2010

Fish Door

BLUE RIDER SUITE (For Wassily Kandinsky)
Sotto Voce (for flute, oboe, piano, contrabass)

BLUE RIDER SUITE (For Franz Marc)
Drei Kleinen Komposition (for flute, oboe, contrabass)

WHILE YOU WERE OUT
Flight 900
While You Were Out
Musée des Chapeaux
the Waffles
La Chenille

THE MELANCHOHOLICS
(co-written with David Beck)
Take Me Home

SOME CIRCLES (Blue Rider Suite, Vol. 1)

Birds
Gate of the Abandoned Garden
Enchanted Mill
Little Joys
Some Circles
Three Subjects, Polyphony
Fruits on Red
Lying Bull
Improvisation XIX
Mandrill
Calm Tension
In Blue

2011

Skullduggery (for DJ Schmeejay)

THE MELANCHOHOLICS
(co-written with David Beck)
Meet Me at the Edge of Noon


2012

BLUE RIDER SUITE (For Paul Klee)
Chinese Poetry
Uplift and Direction
See the Setting Sun
There is an Egg
Insula Dulcamara

Gayatri
In Silence We Speak

THE MELANCHOHOLICS
(co-written with David Beck)
Duke's Hookah


LITTLE BLUEDEVIL (Blue Rider Suite, Vol. 2)

White Line
Tightrope Walker
Chinese Poetry
Dominant Curve
Cats on a Red Cloth
Kleine Komposition I
Kleine Komposition II
Dream Improvisation
Diana
Broken Forms
Little Bluedevil
Gazelles
Tower of Blue Horses


2013

Walking on Blue Eggshells
Matilda (quintet arrangement)
 Blue Dragon (for string quintet)

BLUE RIDER SUITE (miscellaneous)
Liebe
Simultaneous Windows on the City
Lomolarm (Man in Tears)

THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD
(after Wallace Stevens)
Eye of the Blackbird
Pantomime


2014

Boxcars
NoFu
Song for CH
Red Light, Green Light

CURIOUS WORLDS: THE SOUNDTRACK
Curious Worlds: Opening Music
Curious Worlds: L'Opéra

THE MELANCHOHOLICS
(co-written with David Beck)

The Happy Song
How Many Times

NOERTKER/OI DUO
Cabbage


2015

Apogamy
Shy Cerulean Bird
Hopscotch 34
Nacho Christ

THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD
(after Wallace Stevens)
Traced in the Shadow
must be flying

THE MELANCHOHOLICS
(co-written with David Beck)

What I Meant To Say

NOERTKER/OI DUO
Circular Ruins
CHX

SIMULTANEOUS WINDOWS (Blue Rider Suite, Vol. 3)

Simultaneous Windows
Insula Dulcamara
Uplift and Direction
See the Setting Sun
Lomolarm
St. George
Red Waistcoat
Caliban
Little Jester in a Trance
Liebe

2016


Primary Colors (for quartet)
Twond
Desert Pass
NoFu (for quintet)
Red Eleven (for quintet)
Nacho Christ (for quintet)
Espalda (for one bass)

NOERTKER/OI DUO
Primary Colors (duo version)
idée fixe
Haikyu (duo version)
Potter's Wheel

THE MELANCHOHOLICS
(co-written with David Beck)

The Horse He Rode In On
Nowhere To Go

THE WASTELAND
(after T.S. Eliot)
The Drowned Phoenician Sailor
Our Lady Of the Rocks
Whisper Music

Curious Worlds - The Art & Imagination of David Beck
(Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Curious Worlds: Opening Music
Something You Know
Moth en Stereo
Curious Worlds: L'Opéra
Kleine Komposition II
In Blue
Little Jester in a Trance
Meet Me at the Edge of Noon
L'Éléphant Blanc
Fork
Way Gone Cool, Cool Cat
More Fun
Dona del Càntir
Animatique

druidh penumbrae

Boxcars
Acrobat’s Smile (Subrisio Saltat)
Hopscotch 34
La Chenille
Puppeteer
the green metallic silk, those endless ribbons
Matilda
Blue Moose Over Miami
before a single pain (has got within range of your ever-galloping heart)
Dewey Dell


2017


Belief Jerky
Oblique House
Impractical Joke

SKETCHES OF CATALONIA, VOL. 4: SUITE FOR ANTONI TÁPIES

L'escala
Sardana (Circle of Feet)

THE MELANCHOHOLICS
(co-written with David Beck)
The Moon is Always Full

new arrangements of old material
L'Alt Empordà
Red Eleven
There is an Egg
Desert Pass
Pantomime

inspired by a Picasso sketch
Study for a Guitar

druidh fenestrae

Nursery Rhythm
Traced in the Shadow
Eye of the Blackbird
Squirky
Runcible Spoon
NoFu
Skullduggery
Nacho Christ
M'Intosh
Pomegranate


2018

M.O.
Hash House
Intervalence
Desert Pass 2018
Saccade

TRICYCLE PART 1: AMOR FATI

 Holiday Princess of 1946
f o'g
Do You Know My Aunt Eliza?
Metamorphosis of Narcissus
Our Beloved Heath
Cage 1-6 (after Richter)
Hour of the Traces
I am an Amateur of Velocipedes

TRICYCLE, PART 2: ELYSIUM

Road to Branscombe
Buddhist Isometrics
Talkin' to Huddie Ledbetter
the Great Haddock Hexation
the Byes
Ventricles
Mind. the Gap. (Honiton Station)
49 Days

TRICYCLE, PART 3: LEONORA

Metro Cosmos (from yellow to blue) (calliope #1)
Beneath the Sinking Cathedral (the artist travels incognito)
Red Mask
How Doth the Little Crocodile? (calliope #2)
el Bosque
Avenue of the Dead
Snake Bike Floripondio
Eluhim

 2019

out vovled
Apophenia for Witold (for prepared electric bass and looping pedals)
Saeta (for prepared contrabass)
Bullfiddler Crab
Glass Ceiling (for telephone, gunshots, piano, bird call, and tremolo strings)
Orb Devils
Walking on Blue Eggshells [update of piece from 2013]


2020

The Waiting Game (for viola, bass trombone, piano, and celesta)

2021

WALKING ON BLUE EGGSHELLS IN BILLVILLE

L’Alt Empordà
Threadbare Carpet
Saccade
Hi Jinx
Twond
Desert Pass
Feathers in a Cap
Walking on Blue Eggshells
Sardana (Circle of Feet)

MORE FUN IN BILLVILLE

McMuggles
Belief Jerky
More Fun
Banyan Tree
Flood’s Mood
There is an Egg
Oblique House
Bear Den

PANTOMIME IN BILLVILLE

Red Eleven
Impractical Joke
Lotus Eaters
Pantomime
Primary Colors
L’Escala
The Eel
Telephone Grilled Sardines (at the End of September)

2023

in flitters (49 bits from B*ck*tt)