mirovia ocean [2021] for chamber orchestra and fixed media
Mirovia is conjectured to be an ancient superocean that surrounded the supercontinent Rodinia in Neoproterozoic Era 1,000 million to 541 million years ago. Like Iapetus Ocean [2020] , the work is intended as a companion to my realtime generative "Tectonic" works Rodinia, Vaalbara. It uses the notation developed for Tectonic: Rodinia [2016] and Pannotia, but does not involve any realtime manipulation of musical materials.
little grey wing [2021] for flute, bass clarinet, electric guitar and harp
tWurds [in progress] for disklavier, instruments and recordings
TECTONIC: Pannotia [in progress] for large telematically connected variable instrumentation
TECTONIC: Pannotia is a telematic work for networked realtime scores. In geology Pannotia is the name of a theorised Neoproterozoic supercontinent though to have existed at the end of the Precambrian period (650–500 Ma). Tectonic can mean both ‘the study of the earth's structural features’ and ‘the art of construction’ and this works reflects both aspects of the word’s meaning. The concept of slowly shifting plates that crush and reform each other’s placement is the central paradigm of the work. Pannotia is the third in a series that includes Tectonic: Vaalbara [2008], and Tectonic: Rodinia [2016]. In Pannotia, geographically distant performers read an interactive score that is networked to all other simultaneously open scores. The indeterminately selected texture represented in each score is communicated to all other scores and used to influence the selection, and parameters of the evolving music.