Khi-Re

2018
for soprano and clarinet
Commissioned and premiered by NoiseBridge

0:00 or who and who
4:12 swim so now million many worlds in each
8:20 so many selves(so many fiends and gods
12:08 now all the fingers
15:05 no time ago

Performed live at Kunstraum34 Stuttgart, Germany
Noise-Bridge Ensemble ensemble with cross.art
Christie Finn, soprano
Felix Behringer, clarinets
Yulia Drukh, clarinets
Céline Papion, cello
Julia Schautz, violin
Junko Yamamoto, piano
Texts by e.e.cummings, used by permission of LiveRight Publishing
Recorded July 7, 2019

Vixen’s Forest

2011 | 30:00
commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and Giants Are Small for play before Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen; a multi-channel rendering of a forest scene, using orchestral instrument samples and melodic fragments from Janacek’s opera; originally diffused over 100+ speakers in the lobby of David Geffen Hall, New York City

electronicsBeth Beauchamp
Arrangements

Milhaud, D.: La mère coupable
Arr. for 13 Instruments
Used for the US premiere by ICE & On Site Opera, 2017

Milhaud, D.: Le Pauvre Matelot
Arr. for fl, accord, pc, va, vc
Performed by Pocket Opera, NYC 2011

Oliveros, P.: The Nubian Word for Flowers
Posthumously assembled and arranged for performance by ICE and Experiments in Opera, 2017

Weill / Brecht: The Threepenny Opera
Arr. for sax, tp, accord, guit/banjo, vla, db and six voices
Performed by UCSD New Music Ensemble

Songs arranged for choral/instrumental ensembles

  • Brahms, J. Der Tod das ist die Kuhle Nacht
  • Britten, B. Little Sir William; Old Joe has Gone Fishing; Oliver Cromwell
  • Ives, C. Three Songs of the War; The Housatonic at Stockbridge
  • Mahler, G. Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
  • Schubert, F. Der Tod und das Madchen
  • Wolf, H. Das Verlassene Maagdlein; In der Frühe; Verborgenheit
arrangementsBeth Beauchamp