About this list of Compositions

This is a partial list. It is arranged chronologically, starting with the most recent works first. The list becomes less complete the further back in time it extends. I decided to cut it off at around 1980. Prior to that I composed many pieces for various Rack and Jazz groups in which I participated as a keyboard player. None of that material is included in this list, however I am providing a link to a website for one of the bands, Neon Trout. The list is also limited in that it focuses on what I would consider to be my personal music projects. It does not include the many strictly commercial music projects, which I have created for clients over the years. For more information on my commercial work, please see my company web site at www.totallyintuitive.com.

Full List of Compositions
  • Incidental

    This is a large scale six movement fragment based composition that I started work on in late 2004 and which was completed in 2009. The instrumentation is as follows: 1 singer, 2 violins, 2 cellos, acoustic and electric basses, flutes (traditional and nonwestern), bassoon, bass clarinet, soprano sax, alto sax, 3 tenor saxes, trumpet, trombone, acoustic guitar, 2 electric guitars, minimoog and modular moog synthesizers, fender rhodes electric piano, orchestral percussion and drum set.

  • Ineffable

    Completed in May of 2008. This fragment based piece is scored for bass clarinet, piano, percussion and voices. Created for the contemporary concert music ensemble, Zeitgeist, for their 30th anniversary concert.

  • Flute Clouds

    Completed in July of 2007. This fragment based piece is scored for an assortment of traditional Western and non-Western flutes. This was a collaborative multidisciplinary piece involving music, dance and sculpture. The music and dance were created for the unveiling of a large site specific sculpture installation in Utah. The sculptor was Joyce Crain and the choreographer was Susan Gingrasso.

  • Dick & Don

    Completed in August of 2004. This is a fragment-based piece which uses the voices of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld as source material.

  • What They're Doing

    Completed in January 2004. This is a fragment-based piece which uses source material provided by the contemporary concert music ensemble Zeitgeist.

  • Skylands of VonMorse

    This was a short independent animated film by Kurt Paulsen, for which a created original music and sound design in 2003.

  • Short Black Winter

    Completed in 2003. This is a fragment-based piece which uses source material harvested from three Kronos String Quartet CDs.

  • Actual W

    Completed in 2002. This was my first fragment-based composition and it uses a wide variety of preexisting music as it's source material.

  • Shift

    Completed in June 2002. Scored for synthesizers and samplers.

  • Antiphonal Winds

    Completed in January 2002. Scored for two woodwind quintets and piano.

  • System Error

    Completed in 1995. Scored for electric guitar, electric bass, bass bamboo flute, soprano sax, trumpet, trombone, vibraphone, synthesizers and samplers.

  • Roam and Spy

    Completed in 1994. Scored for electric guitar, percussion, synthesizers and samplers. Created in collaboration with guitarist Steve Tibbetts.

  • Raymond's Electronium

    Completed in 1993. Scored for electric guitars, clarinet, soprano sax, alto sax, trumpet, trombone, synthesizers and samplers.

  • Peace Dividend

    Completed in 1993. Scored for electric guitar, two tenor saxes, two percussionists, four found object performers and minimoog synthesizer. This piece was created at the Headlands Center for the Arts as part of a residency I did there.

  • Circus Accident

    Completed in 1993. Scored for electric guitar, two trumpets, two tenor saxes, synthesizers and samplers. Written for the San Francisco band Symon's New Blue Diamonds.

  • Office Furniture From Outer Space

    Completed in 1992. Scored for electric guitar, electric bass, electronic wind instrument, synthesizers and samplers.

  • The Angels

    Completed in 1992. Set of pieces scored for women's chorus, harp, percussion, piano, pipe organ and tape. Created in collaboration with choreographer Rosanna Gamson.

  • Song of the Badger

    Completed in 1992. Written for the contemporary concert music ensemble, Zeitgeist, and scored for bass clarinet, two percussionists and piano.

  • Dream Dealer

    Completed in 1992. Scored for synthesizers and samplers. Film score created for director Rob Sheppard.

  • Channels

    Completed in 1991. Scored for solo oboe. Written specifically for virtuoso double reed player Joe Celli. Performed at Experimental Intermedia in New York.

  • Circling

    Completed in 1991. Scored for minimoog and tape. Large scale experimental interdisciplinary theater piece created primarily in collaboration with Tom and Mira Kehoe for a performance at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.

  • Bottom of the Ninth

    Completed in 1991. Scored for electric guitar, drums, synthesizers and samplers. Film score created for director Marty Kloner.

  • To Go I Know No Whither

    Completed in 1991. Scored for synthesizers and samplers. Film score created for director Marty Kloner.

  • The Basketball Scenarios

    Completed in 1990. Scored for a quartet of performers using as their instrumentation basketballs, referee whistles and their own voices. Performed at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

  • Dither

    Completed in 1990. Scored for solo electronic percussionist and computer. Written specifically for virtuoso percussionist Amy Knoles.

  • Where Are We

    Completed in 1990. Scored for saxophone quartet.

  • The Other

    Completed in 1990. Scored for synthesizers and samplers.

  • I felt whacko

    Late '80s. Electronic tape manipulation piece.

  • A Found Environment

    Late '80s. Scored for prepared electric piano, synthesizers, samplers, computer and a home made electronic percussion instrument.

  • Live Electronics

    Late '80s. Scored for prepared electric piano, synthesizers, samplers, computer and a home made electronic percussion instrument.

  • Arctic Arc

    Completed in 1988. Scored for synthesizers and samplers. Film score created for director Daniel Gumnit.

  • Breakfast on Broadway

    Completed in 1988. Scored for synthesizers and samplers. Film score created for film makers Bill and Jennel Felker.

  • Barge Dance

    Completed in 1988. Scored for synthesizers and samplers. Created in collaboration with choreographer Mary Lee Hardenberg.

  • The History of Television

    Completed in 1988. Scored for synthesizers and samplers.

  • Waiting

    Completed in 1988. Scored for synthesizers and samplers.

  • Subic Bay Beach Party

    Completed in 1988. Scored for synthesizers, samplers, electric piano and tape.

  • Fungi From Yuggoth

    Completed in 1987. Set of pieces scored for synthesizers and samplers.

  • Watership Down

    Completed in 1987. Scored for synthesizers in samplers. Set of dance pieces created in collaboration with the Fuller Young People's Theater.

  • Count Your Brains Out

    Completed in 1987. Scored for percussion ensemble.

  • Final Belay Station

    Completed in 1987. Scored for synthesizers and samplers.

  • Christmas Meditations 1 and 2

    Completed in 1987. Scored for electric piano, synthesizers and samplers.

  • Saturday Morning

    Completed in 1987. Scored for synthesizers and samplers.

  • Rotation

    Completed in 1987. Scored for flute choir.

  • Cowboys on Mars

    Completed in 1987. Scored for synthesizers and samplers.

  • Three Days in the Arrowhead

    Completed in 1986. Scored for synthesizers and samplers.

  • Control Current

    Completed in 1986. Scored for two live performers using synthesizers, samplers and computers.

  • Random Cannons 1 – 3

    Completed in 1986. Scored for synthesizers and samplers.

  • Breaking of the Seven Seals

    Completed in 1986. Scored for men's chorus

  • Mall Dolls

    Completed in 1986. Scored for electric guitar, electric bass, synthesizers, samplers and computer. A set of pieces created for a production staged by the Children's Theater Company.

  • Psalm 42:11

    Completed in 1986. Scored for mixed chorus, (SATB).

  • Enigmatic Interludes in South Minneapolis

    Completed in 1985. Scored for bassoon quartet.

  • A Christmas Carol

    Completed in 1985. Scored for synthesizers and samplers. A set of pieces created for a production staged by the Cricket Theater.

  • Stage Matrix II

    Completed in 1985. Open instrumentation.

  • Thoughts on Individuality

    Completed in 1984. Scored for mixed chorus, (SATB).

  • Frozen Moment

    Completed in 1984. Scored for mixed chorus, (SATB).

  • Stage Matrix I

    Completed in 1983. Scored for four percussionists.

  • Dancing Turtles of the Amazon

    Early '80s. Scored for percussion ensemble.

  • Our Friends the Ducks

    Early '80s. Scored for saxophone quartet.

  • Sea Forest

    Early '80s. Scored for percussion ensemble.

  • Inside Waltz

    Early '80s. Jazz piece scored for big band.

  • Patterns for Four Minimoogs

    Early '80s. Scored for four Minimoogs.

  • Lake Session

    Early '80s. Scored for piano, electric guitar, bass and drums.

  • Departure

    Early '80s. Scored for piano, electric guitar, bass and drums.

  • Charles Manson Takes a Nap

    Early '80s. Scored for flute and piano.

  • Electronic Dialogue

    Early '80s. Duet for two Yamaha DX7 synthesizers.

  • Urban Space

    Early '80s. Mulit-movement studio piece. Instrumentation is largely, though not exclusively electronic.

  • You Are Round

    Early '80s. Electronic tape, boom boxes, pipe organ horn and telephone with live performance theatrical components.

  • Washington Avenue

    Early '80s Synthesizers and tape.

  • Sun Shower

    Early '80s. Piano

  • Trance Image

    Early '80s. Multi-movement studio piece scored for synthesizers and samplers.

  • Toaster Ovens on Parade

    Early '80s. Scored for alto flute, bassoon, acoustic bass and vibraphone.

  • Everything is in Question

    Early '80s. Scored for woodwind quartet.

  • Water Journey

    Early '80s. Scored for string quartet.

  • Lysistrata

    Early '80s. Scored for 2 flutes, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, cello and vibraphone. A set of pieces created for a theatrical production staged at Rarig Center, University of Minnesota.

  • Twenty

    Early '80s. Scored for brass choir

  • Not Text

    Early '80s. Originally scored for three sopranos, violin, viola and cello. Also adapted for three flutes, violin, viola and cello.