For solo percussionist and electronic sounds.
45:00
Commissioned by University of Texas, Stanford University, the Walker Art Center, and Duke University.
For bowed crotales, orchestra bells, chimes, vibraphone and bowed vibraphone.
10:30
Commissioned by the University of Wisconsin, River Falls. Recorded on Mode Records.
For solo percussion and processed sounds.
65:00
Commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, WNYC and the Subtropics Festival.
“All noise contains pure tone. And the complex sonorities of percussion instruments conceal choirs of inner voices. In The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies my search is to find and reveal those voices.” - John Luther Adams
“…a massive new canvas… a 69-minute, eight-movement series of sonic environments…” - Richard S. Ginell, Los Angeles Times
Version for 2 Pianos, Timpani and 4 Percussion.
11:00
“…a vivid personal vision… an evocation of Eskimo drumming and dancing that verges on the ecstatic…”– Peter G. Davis, , New York
28:00
Recorded on New World Records.
“…muscular and sophisticated pieces… based on Inuit dance music… charged with the explosive power of Japanese Taiko drumming…” - The Wire
Six pieces for percussion quartet.
75:00
“Percussion here portrays the ‘terrifying event’...” - John Luther Adams
“Strange and Sacred Noise is a masterpiece, not just for percussion music, but for contemporary classical / experimental / avant-garde / whatever-you-want-to-call-it music.” - Christian Hertzog, Sequenza 21