A list of pieces I've played on my recital series that were written by other composers (listed in chronological order) patterns, algorithms, catalogues, objects, concepts, rituals, etc.

I always love finding out about new music! Please contact me if you have suggestions of pieces that might be a good fit. All works that were composed by (or based on the work of) people living at the time of the performance were performed with permission

2nd century Permutations of pitches from Ancient Greece Excerpt from the manuscript "Venetus Marcianus VI 10" Transcription from Johann Friedrich Bellermann's "Anonymi scriptio de musica"

2nd Century Mirrored pitch pattern from Ancient Greece A 6-note phrase paired with its inversion, presented in 12 transpositions, and then followed by the retrograde of all transpositions and inversions Transcription from Johann Friedrich Bellermann's "Anonymi scriptio de musica"

3rd century Patterened melodies from the Papyri Graecae Magicae information

~1026 A systematic chord catalogue presented by Guido d'Arezzo in his "Regulae rhythmicae in antiphonarii sui prologum prolatae" image

early 14th century The catalogue of the voicings of a 3-note chord that are described as usable in a song or motet in "Ars discantus", attributed to Johannes de Muris text

early 14th century / 1913 The inaugural performance of the Anything's A Canon If You Play It That Way Ensemble, performing the inspiration for the group: a melody from "Renart le nouvel" from around 1300 (Paris, Bibl. Nat. fr. 25566), which, in 1913, Johannes Wolf pointed out would sound good as a 3-voice canon. score

1585 2 chord progressions with slowly migrating pitch centers (when played in just intonation) from Giovanni Benedetti's "Diversarum speculationum mathematicarum" about

~1600 Catalogue of embellishments from "Il Dolcimelo" by Aurelio Virgiliano example

1601 100 cadences (V-I), written by Adriano Banchieri in his "Cartella Musicale" score

~1611-1627 From the tradition of change ringing, Plain Changes on 4 bells (with a fifth bell covering) which is the earliest notated method that I have come across so far as written about by Richard A. Smith in "The Ringing World", 14 April 2023 image

1636 Permutations of a hexachord as described in Marin Mersenne's Livre du chant in "Harmonie universelle" score

1645 The 42 two-voice resolutions of the polymorphic canon "Amor quis maior patet" by Pier Francesco Valentini score

1650 The 1540 possible melodic combinations of 19 B's and 3 C's as described in Athanasius Kircher's "Musurgia Universalis", Book VIII about

1689 My realization of Giovanni Battista Vitali's "Cantilena A Quattro", which consists of a 3-pitch melody written in a circle around a single line, containing all four classical transforations (P, R, I, RI) of a short motive. score

1726 Rhythmic permutations written by Leonhard Euler in an unpublished notebook (F. 136, op. 1, no. 129, ll. 48ob-50) manuscript engraving

1730 100 selections from Christoph Graupner's "Canon with 5626 Inversions" sample page

1739 1000+ vatiations of a melodic C-major triad (through pitch-permutations and various rhythmic patterns) as catalogued by Christian Gottlieb Ziegler in his "Anleitung zur musikalischen Composition" excerpt

1739 The complete-consonance chords from Leonhard Euler's "Tentamen Novae Theoriae Musicae" image

1752 The complete modulations from Francesco Geminiani's "Guida Armonica" sample page

1754 A series of similar melodies over chord progressions consisting of every permutation of the chords d e F G a (always beginning and ending on C) from Joseph Riepel's "Anfangsgründe zur musicalischen Setzkunst" Book II about

1754 An hour-long performance of J. S. Bach's "Kanon zu acht Stimmen" BWV 1072 score

1757 Every permutation of bowing (tying) an 8-note phrase as enumerated by Joseph Riepel in his "Gründliche Erklärung" sample page

1757 - 1949 One piece each from historical musical dice games a link to my online catalogue

1776 7 modulation circles from Georg Joseph Vogler's "Gründe der Kuhrpfälzischen Tonschule" example

1796 Random selections from the possible melodies using permutations of 24 chromatic pitches and 5 durations (each pitch/duration combination once) as described in Francesco Galeazzi's "Elementi teorico-practici di musica" about

1798 85 harmonizations of a C-major scale, as written by Honoré Langlé in his "Traité de la basse sous le chant précédé de toutes les regles de la composition" score

1798 A few paths through "Adagio de Mr. Tartini" published by Jean Baptiste Cartier which is a chart of possible ornamentations for each measure of a sonata movement by Guiseppe Tartini. score

1801 A performance of a single conceptual measure: the measure that Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke allegedly added to Bach's C-major Prelude from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I (after measure 22) in order to make the bass-line and phrase structure more regular

1832 - 1965 Counting from 1 to 100 using various historical variations of the game Fizz Buzz sources

1904 Justly-tuned renditions of the modulations from C-major to other keys as put forth in Max Reger's book "Modulation"

1905 Various combinations of slurred and detached notes from Edmund van der Straeten's "The Technics of Violoncello Playing" about

1928 Selections from Gaylord Yost's "Exercises for the Change of Position" about

1947 Excerpts from the Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns by Nicolas Slonimsky

1956 Melodies derived from Richard Pinkerton's Banal Tune Maker image

1959 "Drip Music" by George Brecht Dripping water into a vessel.

1959 Per Nørgård's Infinity Series

1962 "Opus 9" by Eric Andersen (a 30-second tone which lengthens by 5 seconds for every year after the composition date)

1975 A piece based on the first 2 parts of Jane Coppock's written description of "Farben" from Schoenberg's op 16 as published in her article "Ideas for a Schoenberg Piece" (Perspectives of New Music vol 14 no 1, 1975)

1982 Selections from Rational Melodies by Tom Johnson

1998 An excerpt from pi (1-2594) by Michael Pisaro The decimal digits of pi, one digit per 5 seconds, each digit indicates the number of times to play a single tone at 120 bpm

1998 Page 1009 of Manfred Werder's "stück 1998" each of the 4000 pages (performed in order over the span of all performances) consists of 80 pitches, each pitch sustained for 6 seconds (if any the performing instrument(s) are able), followed by 6 seconds of silence

1999 Heartbeat (6) by Craig Shepard (performers make a sound every 9 heartbeats)

1999 Counting Windows for Tom Johnson by Luiz Henrique Yudo musical patterns based on the observed layout of window panes within a frame

2000 Perception 1 by Michael Pisaro (a tone, repeated in durations that reduce by 1/2 each time, until there is no perceivable difference between 2 consecutive tones)

2000 "the collection #2" by Michael Pisaro a duration is divided up into parts of equal length, alternating sound and silence, independently by two players

2002 "Dramatische Studie Nr. 3" by Stefan Streich (a series of tones, the time between each tone increases 1/2 second with each sounding)

2002 "Progressions 6" by Chedo Barone Every permutation of every 3-note collection within the 12 notes between C4 and B4

2003 "Piano Installation with Derangements" by Chedo Barone 750 pairs of permutations of a 1-octave C major scale (left hand in the octave at and above C4, right hand in the octave at and above C5, each playing a different permutation in rhythmic unison)

2003 Manfred Werder's "stück 2003 (1)" 3 performers, 1 tone played twice.

2006 The Harmonics of Real Strings by John Lely (a slow full ascent up a single string with harmonic pressure in the left hand)

2007 Jeph Jerman's "before we begin", which consists of sound events usually associated with the time just before starting to perform a concert (walking on stage, adjusting music stands, etc.)

2007 (first ringing) From the tradition of change ringing, the Palatino Surprise Maximus method about

2008 for andré o. möller by Taylan Susam (the instrument plays one tone; two oscillators tuned at a fifth slowly glissando down a half step, so that the piece begins as a minor triad and ends as a major triad)

2009 An audio version of Christoph Korn's Max-patch that counts to 5 over 3 days

2009 "Private Spaces #1" by Sepand Shahab Listening to changes in the acoustic landscape while taking a shower May 29, 2025, ~9:00pm House concert, San Diego

2009 "Rows 1" by Anders Dahl The first in a series of pieces that are the simplest manifestations of dodecaphonic music: a single row played once

2009-2016 "Balance" by Davide Tidoni (walking between to tone generators until their volume is perceived as equal)

2009-2016 "Feedback" by Davide Tidoni (approaching and turning off a loudspeaker while holding a connected microphone without causing feedback)

2011 "The Sound of a Silent Film" by David Bellingham Listening to a film projector play a short silent film

2012 For each measure of Beethoven's "Für Elise", all pitches compressed into a single chord by Johannes Kreidler

2013 Selections from John Eagle's "incomplete polyrhythms" a catalog of all the note/rest combinations for polyrhythms using the numbers 1-5

2013 (first ringing) From the tradition of change ringing, the Avalon Delight Maximus method about

2013 Poems by Georg Trakl, converted to binary code, sonified as the pitch D4 on the G and D string of the violin by Johannes Kreidler

2014 "two, disappearing" by Christoph Korn A violin tone and a sine tone are disappearing successively as silences are inserted into them, which grow in both number and length.

2015/2018 "Outside &" by Peter Ablinger: an outside microphone transmits sound into the performance space with a slight a delay. the performers hear the sound in headphones with no delay and imitate the outside noises so as to sound in unison to the audience. score

2015 My chord from Kevin Good's piece "The Chords in My Life", in which he composes a unique chord for people he meets

2016 "Für Elise. Preface" by Anton Svetlichny The motive from Fur Elise, starting halfway through the fourth complete measure and ending on the downbeat of measure five, repeated, each time with an increasing number of E-D# alternations.

2016 "aperture" by D. Edward Davis (on a single tone, slowly moving the bow closer to the bridge with each change of bow)

2016 Aria from "The Goldberg Variation (Bach Clock)" by Jesper Norda Each note in the original score is struck at even intervals, every two seconds.

2017 now is the moment to learn hope by Antoine Beuger (a sound played without knowing how and when to end)

2018 "Erwartung 1" by Eva-Maria Houben a free exploration of a single sonority from Schoenberg's "Erwartung"

2018 40-minute ascending octave glissando concept by Jeb Bishop

2018 Transcription of a pair of shoes tumbling in an electric dryer concept by Matt Sargent

2018 "A Long Ascent" by Madison Greenstone (smallest possible movement of the finger up the string for each tone. 10 seconds tone, 10 seconds silence.)

2019 Transcription of a series of games of Operation (played on the evening before the performance and recorded) concept by Matt Sargent

2019 Two sine tones that have a 1/3600 Hz difference concept by Anthony Vine August 23, 2019. 7:00pm House concert, Minneapolis

2019 A series of notes at tempo 400 npm the pitch of each note starts at 100 percent chance of E4 and 0 percent chance D4 and changes 1 percent every 30 seconds to eventually become 0 chance of E4 and 100 chance of D4 concept by Miller Puckette

2019 Sonification of the shortest single-digit representations of natural numbers (numbers 0-9 mapped to pitches G3-E4, +-*/^() mapped to F4-B4) about concept by D. Edward Davis

2019 Exercises to derive increasingly small superparticular tuning ratios by ear on the violin by Christopher Otto

2019 A series of pitches: the pitch of note N is the pitch P (1-12) (which has already been played T times) which has the lowest value of T * P concept by Miller Puckette

2019 Repeated attempts to play the maximum number of discrete staccato notes on a single upbow by Matthew Barber

2019 Very slow detuning of the G string by Aisha Orazbayeva

2019 A tone every time any two hands on an analogue clock form a 90 degree angle by Dan Ruccia

2020 "Three Glasses" by Takahiro Kawaguchi Three players rub wine glasses, which each have a continuous drip of water filling them at different rates

2021 "Whiplash" by Jack Callahan Musical material (note, interval, mode, scale, chord) is called out by a Max patch and then interpreted by the performer, gradually increasing in complexity as attributes (dynamic, articulation, vibrato, playing technique) are added.

2021 Sonification of the date of Easter each year (day of year mapped to pitch) concept by Miller Puckette

2021 Two oscillators, set 1 Hz apart, carried by Greg Stuart and me as we walk past each other on the beach by Greg Stuart

2021 "Random Partials (1-7th harmonic) Version I" by Håkon Thelin (random natural harmonics on a scordatura violin played in unison with the same notes on an equal tempered piano)

2022 384 variations on a 4-note chord with ratios 4:5:6:7 Find the prime-exponenent coordinates of each of the chord's internal intervals. Playback of chords created by every permutation of swapping exponent axes between each other and also each axis's inverse concept by Miller Puckette

2022 A process created by Jairo Mora: a 31:18 polyrhythm, with audible subdivisions that continuously reduce. Two points move, in mirrored Pong-style paths, through a 32x19 grid, moving one space diagonally per subdivision, reflecting off the grid borders (creating the 31:18 polyrhythm), and sounding a subdivision only the first time each space in the grid is visited. link

2024 The single-sound version of "7" by Mitchell Carlstrom. A Max-patch playback of a 15-voice prolation canon in which all voices continuously repeat a single live-recorded sound every 1.5 seconds, (in this case a sustained E4 on the violin, slightly glissandoing downward) but with every voice phasing by a few milliseconds each repetition, so as to complete a full cycle of the resulting polyrhythm in 10 minutes.

2024 Opening Hwang Eunyoung's book "Eb", which has two velcro squares attached to the inside covers image 1 image 2

2024 Singing Eddie Davis's setting of the text: "This is a song with music by Eddie Davis and text by Erik Carlson"

2025 "Zeno's Tape Recorder" by Sepand Shahab Repeatedly discarding the more beautiful half of a recording