My recent electroacoustic work explores the boundaries between generative gestures—those that give rise to process—and “containing” gestures that keep processes under control. As such, the sonic and visual elements walk a tightrope between homogeneity and chaos, bounded by a continual play between constructive and destructive gesture.

Hopper Confessions (2003) Commissioned by Ulrich Maiss.
for cello, interactive computer music, and interactive video
(video: Katherine Bergeron/Joseph Rovan).

First performance: Festival Synthèse, Bourges, France June 2003. Premiered by cellist Ulrich Maiss. Scheduled for performance at CEMI, University of North Texas, October 13, 2003.

COLLIDE (2002)
for gestural glove controller, interactive computer music, and interactive video.

First performance: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) International Conference 2002, Dublin, Ireland, May 2002. Also performed in Nürnberg, Germany at the “Polytopos” festival (two performances), Tafelhalle, June 2002; BKA Theater, Berlin, Germany, March 2003; Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI), April 2003; Texas A&M University, May 2003.

Battu (2002) Commissioned by Scott Tignor.
for tuba and interactive computer music.

First performance: International Tuba Euphonium Conference 2002 (ITEC), Greensboro, North Carolina, June 2002. Premiered by tubist Scott Tignor.

Vis-à-vis (2002) one-act monodrama, after a text by Rainer Maria Rilke.
for voice, interactive computer music, and interactive video.

First performance: University of California, Irvine, April 2001; also performed at the ENSCI Les Ateliers, Paris, France, July 2001; the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Nürnberg, Germany July 2001; University of North Texas CEMI Concert Series, February, 2002; the 2002 SEAMUS conference, Iowa City, Iowa, April 2002; and the University of Texas, Austin, November 2002.

seine hohle Form (2000) Commissioned by Palindrome Intermedia Performance Group.
for dancers, interactive electronics, and custom video tracking system.

Performed at University of North Texas, November 2000. Repeat performances at International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2000), Paris, December 2000; as well as in Nürnberg (Tafelhalle, January 2001, St. Katharine Ruina, May 2001, and Institut für Kunst, Design, und Medientechnologie, July 2001); Monaco (Mddf, January 2001); Reims (Centre Culturel Saint-Exupéry, April 2001); Baton Rouge (SEAMUS, March 2001); Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires Video Dance Festival, July 2001); Dessau Germany, (Bauhaus Summer Academy -Bühnenwerkstatt, August 2001; Aachen, Germany (Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, September 2001); Jury selection, School of Visual Arts' Ninth Annual "New York Digital Salon", December 2001. Also selected for performance at ICMC, Havana, September 2001. First place winner ($5,000) in the Berlin Transmediale International Media Art Festival, February 2002.

Content—stream (2000) Commissioned by Palindrome Intermedia Performance Group.
for interactive computer music, dancers and custom video tracking system.

First performance: the Siemens Festival of the Arts, Munich, November 2000.

Continuities (1997) Commissioned by Teatro Carlo Felice dell'Opera, Genoa, Italy.
for gestural glove controller and interactive electronics.

Performed at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Nürnberg, Germany,July 2001. Also performed at Central Michigan University (as composer-in-residence), March 2002; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, May 2001; Gassman Electronic Music Series, University of California, Irvine, April 2001; University of Texas, Austin, December, 2000; SEAMUS 2000 National Conference, Denton, Texas, March 2000; Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players, February 2000; the 1999 International Computer Music Conference, Beijing, China, November 1999; Arts & Technology Symposium, Connecticut College, March 1999; "Lire en fête" music festival, Paris, October 1998; Ars Longa, Paris, July 1998; commissioned by the Teatro Carlo Felice dell'Opera, Genoa, November 1997.

L'Obvie / l'obtus (1997) Commissioned by Teatro Carlo Felice dell'Opera, Genoa, Italy.
for clarinet, gestural controller and interactive electronics.

Performed in the Sotto il cielo d'estate (Pisa Summer Music Festival), July 2001; Also performed at Central Michigan University (as composer-in-residence), March 2002; the Gassman Electronic Music Series, University of California, Irvine, April 2001; International Computer Music Conference, Berlin, Germany, Aug. 2000; University of Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, April 2000; 1999 SEAMUS National Conference, San José, California, March 1999; Florida State University, November 1998; commissioned by the Teatro Carlo Felice dell'Opera, Genoa, November 1997.

Miró Sketches (1997-2000) Commissioned by Guy Livingston.
for piano.

First performance (Mvt. I): Maison de la musique, Nanterre, France, September 1997. Commissioned by Guy Livingston, for his world-wide concert tour 2000-2001 (with performances in Amsterdam, Paris, Johannesburg, New York, Los Angeles, ). Also performed at the Tenth Biennial Festival of New Music, Florida State University, February 2001; Prague Summer Academy, July 2000; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, January 2002; Knitting Factory, New York, July 2002.

Les Points Finaux (1999) Commissioned by Palindrome Intermedia Performance Group.
computer dance score for interactive video system and five dancers.

First performance: Palindrome Dance Company, Dresden State Theater, Dresden, Germany, November 1999. Also performed at Stätische Ballet, Nürmberg, Germany, June 1999.

Aerial Variations (1999)
for alto saxophone, chamber orchestra, and interactive electronics.

First performance: Florida State New Music Festival, February 1999. Also performed at the Legacies Conference Concert, University of North Texas: From Print to Performance, October 2001; and at the National Alliance for Saxophonists/America (NASA) National Conference, March 2002.

Exercices de style (1998), after a text by Raymond Queneau.
for brass quintet.

First performance: the Conservatoire Edgard Varèse, Gennevilliers, France, May 1998, "Quintette Pentatonique."

Proximities (1997)
for B-flat clarinet and violin.

First performance: Maison de la musique, Nanterre, France, September 1997. Also performed at University of California, Berkeley, December 1997.

Landscape (1996)
for string quartet.

Performed by the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players, Berkeley, April 1996.

Hladna Sava (1995)
for chamber orchestra.

Performed by the B.N.M.P. Orchestra, Berkeley, November 1995.

Winding Up (1995)
for B-flat clarinet and Victrola.

Performed at the OPUS 415 new music festival, San Francisco, November 1995. Also performed at Florida State University, November 1999.

Spell: Still Creating the World (1991) Commissioned by the Pacific Dance Ensemble.
electronic dance score for choreographer Stephanie Gilliland. 

Funded by a Meet The Composer grant and commissioned by the Pacific Dance Ensemble. Performed at Los Angeles State University, March 1991. (Winner of Lester Horton Dance Award for best dance score.)