How to Become an Idea
April 23, 2025
Christopher Otto premieres my solo violin works Eden Melody (2023) and Time Escape Harmony (2024), both written as attempts to retrieve the feeling of pre-existence. This performance will also be Otto’s first public solo concert. Read more.
Outer Variations video
November 26, 2024
A live recording of the first performance of Outer Variations (2024) is now available on YouTube, performed by pianist Trudy Chan.
The Holding Oak at Harvard
November 7, 2024
Carson Cooman premieres The Holding Oak (2024), for organ in ¼-comma meantone tuning, in concert at the Memorial Church at Harvard University.
Outer Variations in NYC
October 26, 2024
On October 26 at the Tenri Institute, Trudy Chan plays my piano piece Outer Variations at a concert celebrating Frank J. Oteri’s 60th birthday. The piece was written this year as a birthday gift for Frank, and takes the form of a dimensional prayer.
Ammonite Song score video
September 24, 2024
A score video of my MIDI piano piece of Ammonite Song (2018) is now available on YouTube.
More performances of The Holy Liftoff
August 24–October 31, 2024
Summer and fall performances of my realization of Terry Riley’s The Holy Liftoff for Claire Chase and string quartet:
On August 24, Claire and the two-cello string quartet Owls perform a new arrangement of the piece as a 30-minute suite at Tippet Rise.
On September 14 & 19, two performances as part of The Juilliard School’s Fall Festival. Pulsefield, a new musical drawing from The Holy Liftoff folio in a realization for 17 players led by Claire, Nadia Sirota, and Pablo Rieppi, plus a new 60-minute quintet version of Holy Liftoff performed by Claire and the Prometheus Quartet.
On October 31, Claire and Present Music perform the quintet version in Milwaukee.
Ribbon score video
July 3, 2024
A video of my home recording of Ribbon (2023) is now available on YouTube, including its handwritten score that traces an intersecting path.
The Holy Liftoff premieres in NYC and SF
May 2–8, 2024
My realization of Terry Riley’s The Holy Liftoff for Claire Chase and the JACK Quartet premieres at Public Records in Brooklyn, NY on May 2, as part of Bang on a Can’s Long Play Festival in collaboration with The Kitchen. The following week it travels to Stanford University’s Bing Hall as part of the Stanford Live concert series (concert preview).
The Holy Liftoff was commissioned by Chase for Part XI of her Density 2036 project. Riley’s original manuscript consists of 15 pages of musical drawings and a section of through-composed score, from which I created a 70-minute realization for live flute and string quartet with pre-recorded flute choir, voice, and other sounds.
Excerpt from the Brooklyn concert here.
Two Scenes on Bandcamp
April 28, 2024
A live recording of Huw Morgan’s performance of Two Scenes (2016–2019) is now available on Bandcamp, as part of the spring album release of mainly slow organ music.
Two Scenes in Bristol
March 14, 2024
Huw Morgan plays the European premiere of Two Scenes (2016–2019) at St. Mary Redcliffe Church in Bristol, UK, as part of the concert series mainly slow organ music. More information here.
Liner notes for Morton Feldman: Complete Music for Cello & Piano
March 1, 2024
Mode Records releases Morton Feldman: Complete Music for Cello & Piano, for which I wrote the liner notes. The release includes the complete works for the two instruments, played by Marilyn Nonken and Stephen Marotto. More information here.
I previously wrote the liner notes for Morton Feldman: Orchestra, which includes my realization of Feldman’s Intersection I.
Bleeding Heart Transformation: Concert at St. John’s in the Village
December 8, 2023
A concert of three meditative works for guitar and for organ by Samuel Clay Birmaher at the sanctuary at St. John’s in the Village (New York, NY).
Guitarist David Nadal will perform the 40-minute Bleeding Heart Transformation (2023) along with York Leaf (2018). In addition, I will perform Two Scenes (2016–2019) on organ. All three performances are premieres. Online livestream available. Buy tickets.
Concert program here.
Song Following Itself recording
July 10, 2023
A home recording of Song Following Itself (2018) by violinist Christopher Otto (of the JACK Quartet) is now available, in the version for violin and delay.
Jashiin plays Converted Melodies
March 18, 2023
Jashiin releases an album of his synthesizer interpretations of Converted Melodies (2022). Jashiin is the dedicatee of this piece—read the story here.
N-March in Cambridge, MA
March 7, 2023
Carson Cooman premieres N-March (2013) in concert at the Memorial Church at Harvard University.
Organ music on YouTube
August 26, 2022
Carson Cooman’s performances of Forever (2021), Light of the Other (2021), and Two Scenes (2016–2019), are now available on YouTube.