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Current and upcoming
14 songs
violin solo, string trio (violin, viola, cello).
[in progress]
2024
“Les concerts ne sont jamais de veritable musique, on doit renoncer a y entendre, ce qu’il y a de beau dans l’art.”
piano, 2 winds (any combination of flute/clarinet), 2 strings (any combination of violin/viola/cello), percussion (1 player). 6–9m
title: Frédéric Chopin as quoted by Emilie von Gretsch, recorded by Maria von Grewingk (Eine Tochter Alt-Rigas, Schülerin Chopins, 1928)
text: Franz Liszt and Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein trans. Martha Walker Cook (Life of Chopin, 1852/1863)
Ballad
voice (medium-high [A3–Ab5]), piano. long dur. (ca. 1h30m)
Untitled (Kertész-Quartet)
part of Songs (Book 1)
4 instruments, each from a different instrumental family (e.g. wind, bowed string, plucked string, percussion) and always including 1 violin, viola, or cello. 17m
sketched from June 29, 2022; completed March 12, 2024
first performance:
TAK Ensemble, Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, April 21, 2024
2022
Untitled (empathy/the mark of Cain)
voice, ensemble (variable 5–8 players including percussion), field recordings. 7m
first performance:
Fonema Consort, Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, April 16, 2022
2021
Family
speaker, fixed audio. 20m
first installation/performance:
first version: Seth Brodsky (speaker), Andrew Stock and Douglas McCausland (electronics), Gray Center for the Arts and Inquiry, Chicago, December 8, 2021
2020–
Songs
Book 1 (11 pieces [2020–])
pieces 10–11 in progress.
Untitled (2 variations)
speaker, 3–5 instruments, piano. 1m
text: spiritual (“Poor little Jesus” [Roud 10067]); Hector Berlioz (letter to Joseph Joachim, December 9, 1853)
sketched July 11, 2022; completed January 19, 2023
Untitled
speaker playing percussion instrument (skin). variable dur.
text: David Marriott (“Judging Fanon,” 2016)
sketched May 4, 2022; completed October 13, 2022.
workshop: Andrew Stock, Qualia Contemporary Art, Palo Alto, CA, October 27, 2022
Alphabet Song for David Drake
speaker, recordings, performers (up to 26) with objects. 15–20m
text: David Drake (inscription on stoneware, August 17, 1857)
sketched June 29, 2022; first version completed October 7, 2022.
workshop: Andrew Stock (speaker, recordings), Stanford University class of Alexander Nemerov, Qualia Contemporary Art, Palo Alto, CA, October 27, 2022
Untitled (“I sell the shadow to support the substance”)
2 instruments, 2 field recordings.
variable dur. 7–10m
title: Sojourner Truth (cartes de visite after 1864)
sketched June 29, 2022; completed October 13, 2022.
workshop: Jimmy Chan (percussion), Andrew Stock (recordings), Qualia Contemporary Art, Palo Alto, CA, October 27, 2022
first performance: Ning Yu (keyboards), Andrew Stock and Sivan Silver-Swartz (recordings), Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, February 4, 2023
Untitled (Tagelied)
speaker, bass drum. 6m
text: Joseph Joachim (letter to Gisela von Arnim, December 20, 1853)
sketched July 11, 2022; completed July 14, 2022.
workshop: Andrew Stock (speaker), Jimmy Chan (bass drum part on snare drum), Qualia Contemporary Art, Palo Alto, CA, October 27, 2022
Interview
1+ speaker(s), variable instrumentation +/- electronics. variable dur.
text: variable
April 1, 2020; revised March 13, 2021 and May 7, 2022
Untitled
speaker, recording. variable dur.
text: variable
February 24, 2020; edited January 25, 2023
2017
the french suites
violin or viola. 4m
first performance:
viola version: Jossalyn Jensen, Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, June 14, 2018
2016
Index of Lutheran Chorale Settings
variable instrumentation. variable dur.
revised 2018; new realization for organ 2023.
first performance:
Amalgama (small ensemble), Spectrum, New York City, February 8, 2020
first performance, organ realization 2023:
Randall Harlow (organ), Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, Chicago, January 7, 2023
félix gonzález-torres
viola, snare drum (both amplified). 16m