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The 21st Century Voice
2006_#73_adjusting to beams falling
instrumentation: flute and cello
premiere performance: unperformed

2005_#72_Tempo Mental Rap
instrumentation: guitar
premiere performance: Stefan Östersjö played a partial premiere (variations 1, 2, 3 and 5) at the University of New Mexico, during the SCI (Society of Composers, Inc) conference on April 5, 2006

2005_#71_Art from the Edge of the World
instrumentation: solo oboe
premiere performance: Simon Strasser_Unerhörte Musik_June 14, 2005

2004_#70_1 sonata
instrumentation: piano
premiere performance: excerpts performed by Jeffrey Burns for broadcast on ABC radio in Australia featured in the science program "It's a Small World". Still unperformed in public concert
'Sélection' in the 5th Dutilleux International Composition Compétition, 2003

2003_#69_A Little Watter, man
instrumentation: an electronic composition
premiere performance: UNDER Saint Marks in New York City

2002_#68_prana
instrumentation: four solo voices and non-stable drone
premiere performance: 25 October 2001, Joensuu Conservatory

2002_#67_Kut
instrumentation: sheng (or accordion or oboe), female voice, violin
Premiere performance: 17 October 2003_Rebekka Uhlig

2002_#66_overture
instrumentation: seven violins
premiere performance: unperformed(simulation performed by Stephanie Heilmann)

2002_#65_Tractatus I
instrumentation: solo oboe
premiere performance: unperformed

2002_#64_String Quartet #1
instrumentation: string quartet
premiere performance: Kairos Quartet on 4 April 2004, 18. Tage für Neue Musik Rottenburg (am Neckar) A Quattro!
Festival für Streichquartett Kulturverein Zehntscheuer E.V.
Rottenburg am Neckar (Germany).

2001_#63_Koli
instrumentation: string quartet and bass voice
premiere performance: unperformed

2001_#62_Anaphora
instrumentation: solo voice
premiere performance: Rebekka Uhlig; Reservoir V; Berlin; July 2001

2001_#61_Divergence
instrumentation: two voices and electronics
premiere performance: Rebekka Uhlig and Juergen Neubauer; Reservoir V; Berlin; July 2001
published recording on ELECTRONIC VOICES, Galerie SPHN, Berlin

2001_#60_Cantor's Dust
instrumentation: solo voice and electronics
premiere performance:Rebekka Uhlig; Reservoir V; Berlin; July 2001
published recording on ELECTRONIC VOICES, Galerie SPHN, Berlin

2001_#59_The Elements of Risk in Creation
instrumentation: electronic composition with optional voice
premiere performance: Synthese 2001 in Bourges, France
published recording on ELECTRONIC VOICES, Galerie SPHN, Berlin

2000_#58_Kalevi Matus
instrumentation: choir
premiere performance: June 23, 2002 by the Chamber Choir of the Universität der Künste at the Castle Sans Souci in Potsdam, Germany; conducted by Miriam Sohor with Angela Rademacher, soloist

2000_#57_Samsara
instrumentation: twenty strings
premiere performance: unperformed

2000_#56_le Criterion
instrumentation: wind septet (revision needed)
premiere performance:

2000_#55_Mamre
instrumentation: solo violin
premiere performance: Chatschatur Kanajan, Violine; 18 November 2000; Galerie SPHN, Berlin.

1999_#54_Friedrich's Comma
instrumentation:two voices
premiere performance: Angela Rademacher, Hanno Koloska, voices recording at Universität der Kunste, Berlin 26 September 2002(publicly unperformed)
published in entirety in The 21st Century Voice, Scarecrow Press

1999_#53_Wassermann
instrumentation: electronic composition
premiere performance: (?)20 November 1999, Southwestern College
published recording on ELECTRONIC VOICES, Galerie SPHN, Berlin

1999_#52_Pakji Studies
instrumentation: wind, brass and percussion
premiere performance:

1999_#51_Twelve Miniatures
instrumetation: wind, brass and piano
premiere performance: 28 May 2000; ces 2000 miniatures ont été exécutées par l'ensemble Décadanse auquel s'était joint le groupe Coma (Grande Bretagne) au parc Jean Hugo, ŕ Lunel.

1999_#50_Pakji
instrumentation: wind ensemble
premiere performance: unperformed

1998_#49_KOSMOS, volume two on reinforced harmonics
instrumentation: one to four voices
premiere performance: unperformed (?)
published by C.P. PRESS PUBLICATIONS

1998_#48_KOSMOS, volume one on articulation
instrumentation: one to four voices
premiere performance: unperformed (?)
published by C.P. PRESS PUBLICATIONS

1998_#47_Schreistimme
instrumentation: bayan
premiere performance: Stas Venglevski in Chicago, Illinois 2000

1998_#46_Azure Suite
instrumentation: soprano and overtone singer
premiere performance: unperformed
published by C.P. PRESS PUBLICATIONS

1998_#45_Taffy Twisters
instrumentation: voice and percussion
premiere performance: Steve Tasko and Kristy Cheadle at UW Madison in 1998
published by C.P. PRESS PUBLICATIONS

1998_#44_Agwara-Nanga-Wolof
instrumentation: steel pans, African drums, brass and saxophone
premiere performance: Western Illinois University Percussion Ensemble and soloists, conducted by Dr. Richard Cheadle, February 1998 in Macomb, Illinois.

1998_#43_Sirens
instrumentation: four to forty voices
premiere performance: the Extended Vocal Techniques Performance Group, at the 1998 state conference of the Wisconsin Alliance of Composers at Carthage College, April 4, 1998.
published by C.P. PRESS PUBLICATIONS

1998+_#42_Pyramid of Unas (revision needed)
instrumentation: orchestra and six voices
premiere performance:

1997_#41_Lingua-Palatal #1
instrumentation: two voices
premiere performance: Michael Meadows and Mike Edgerton in Madison, Wisconsin on November 24, 1997.
published by C.P. PRESS PUBLICATIONS

1997_#40_24 October 1667
instrumentation: marine trumpet and voice
premiere performance: Michael Meadows in Madison, Wisconsin November 24, 1997.

1997_#39_A Holy Person Falls into the Nile as a Pelican
instrumentation: clarinet and horn
premiere performance: Michelle Doyle-Ronkin, clarinet; Jeremy Ronkin, horn; February 1998 in Green Lake, Wisconsin

1997_#38_Circles et Articulation
instrumentation_trumpet and piano
premiere performance: Laura Halfield and Bo-Kyung Kim in Madison, WI, November 24, 1997.

1997_#37_l'histoire du petit Heure
instrumentation: percussion ensemble
premiere performance: Western Illinois University New Music Ensemble; Richard Cheadle, conductor

1997_#36_Mit Unulgn Tri-Ien Psiiii iii
instrumentation: five voices
premiere performance: Extended Vocal Techniques Performance Group at the Broadway theater in Milwaukee, February 1997

1996_#35_Apposte Messe
instrumentation: mechanical organ
premiere performance: Gary Verkade, Carthage College; October 17, 1998

1996_#34_Worcester Fragments
instrumentation: four to six voices
premiere performance: unperformed

1996_#33_No!!!
instrumentation: two voices, rope climbers and drummers
premiere performance: Gail Hoak, Sean Sheldrake & students of the San Jacinto dance and theater program; San Jacinto, California 1996

1996_#32_Giants
instrumentation: solo violin
premiere performance: unperformed

1996_#31_On Music
instrumentation: flute and viola
premiere performance: unperformed

1996_#30_ "...by the way, your name makes music..." instrumentation: xylophone
premiere performance: unperformed

1995_#29_Syale #1
instrumentation: electronic composition
premiere performance: October 1995 at the University of Redlands
published recording on ELECTRONIC VOICES, Galerie SPHN, Berlin

1995_#28_Lincoln Shrine
instrumentation: marimba and violin
premiere performance:

1995_#27_Mountain Songs
instrumentation: solo voice
premiere performance:
published by C.P. PRESS PUBLICATIONS

1995_#26_David, not too Syl (i)
instrumentation: vibraphone
premiere performance: unperformed

1995_#25_Songs of Vent
instrumentation: multi-percussion solo
premiere performance: unperformed
published by C. ALLEN PUBLICATIONS

1995_#24_Pedagogy Piece
instrumentation: six voices
premiere performance: students of the School of Music at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea in spring 1995.

1995_#23_XHAIN
instrumentation: piano duo
premiere performance: unperformed
Finalist in the Sal Martirano Composition Award, 1999

1995_#22_Regret of a Noiseless Sundering
instrumentation: saxophone quartet
premiere performance: Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, 28 April 2005 during the Borderline Festival in Malmö, Sweden

1994_#21_A Broken Collaboration
instrumentation: solo actor, 3 voices, electric guitar and cello
premiere performance:

1994_#20_The Night of Brahman-The Dance of Fire
instrumentation: solo violin
premiere performance: unperformed

1993_#19_The 15th Century Walled Garden - Apokatastasis
instrumentation: for solo percussion, mosh pit, geodesic dome, car hoods, rocks, metal and other objects
premiere performance: unperformed

1993_#18_The Electric Meat Factory
instrumentation: soprano, chanter, guitar, percussion, wall bass, electronic tape, spatialization in a three-story house played as an instrument
premiere performance:

1993_#17_Fracture Zone: Clipperton et Ragusii
instrumentation: underwater drama designed to be performed within the Clipperton Transform Fault in the Pacific Ocean
premiere performance: unperformed

1992_#16_Fama Fraternitatis
instrumentation: solo voice, assorted instruments, dancers and tunnelers
premiere performance:

1991_#15_Net/Byrinth: Rec. Study 1
instrumentation: trumpet, horn, and trombone
premiere performance:

1991_#14_Michelle 8091-434
instrumentation: bass clarinet, b. sax, tuba, double bass, trap set
premiere performance:

1990_#13_Whose Land?
instrumentation: rock band and tape
premiere performance:

1989_#12_The Hidden Thunder of Screaming Souls
instrumentation: voice and viola
premiere performance:

1989_#11_Hour History
instrumentation: opera for four principal actors, 11 male voices, percussion ensemble
premiere performance: December 3+4, 1992 at the Krannert Center in Urbana, Illinois by The University of Illinois New Music Ensemble; The University of Illinois Contemporary Vocal Ensemble; David Billman, conductor; William Brooks, conductor of vocal ensemble; Ray Caton and Aaron Claessens, lighting directors; Scott Mandrell, production manager; Michael Edward Edgerton, director

1989_#10_In America
instrumentation: electronic composition
premiere performance:
published recording on ELECTRONIC VOICES, Galerie SPHN, Berlin

1988_#9_Unspoken Crime
instrumentation: violin, violoncello and piano
premiere performance:Claudia Watson, violin; Sarah Weisman, violoncello; Drew Krause, piano; November 1988 ; the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois
First prize for the MacDowell Award for composition, 1995

1988_#8_Expansions 1a
instrumentation: flute, clarinet, bass clarinet and bassoon
premiere performance:

1987_#7_My Country
instrumentation: electronic composition
premiere performance:

1987_#6_Current: The Eternal Mystery
instrumentation: percussion ensemble
premiere performance:

1987_#5_Ai
instrumentation: trumpet, trombone, tuba
premiere performance:Kim Walker, tpt; Curtis Olsen, tbn; Phil Sinder, tuba at Michigan State University in 1987
published by T.U.B.A. PRESS
3rd prize in the 1987 National Federation of Music Clubs Competition Contest

1986_#4_Expansions
instrumentation: piano
premiere performance: Deborah DeWitt at Michigan State University in 1986

1986_#3_A Penny for the Young Guy
instrumentation: narrator, voices, winds, brass, strings
premiere performance: Michigan State University New Music Ensemble, in 1986/87

1986_#2_Dwellers of the Southwest
instrumentation: tenor and mixed ensemble
premiere performance: unperformed
Honorable mention in the National Federation of Music Clubs, 1987

1985_#1_The Final Diary of a Branch
instrumentation: orchestra
premiere performance: Michigan State University; MSU Symphony Orchestra; Kevin Rhoades, conductor; Wharton Center for the Performing Arts; January 15, 1986
First prize in the Michigan State Univ-Orchestral Composition Contest, 1986
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