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.
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2nd century
Permutations of pitches from Ancient Greece
Excerpt from the manuscript "Venetus Marcianus IV 10"
Transcription from Johann Friedrich Bellermann's "Anonymi scriptio de musica"
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3rd century
Patterened melodies from the Papyri Graecae Magicae
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~1026
A systematic chord catalogue presented by Guido d'Arezzo
in his "Regulae rhythmicae in antiphonarii sui prologum prolatae"
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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
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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.
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1585
2 chord progressions with slowly migrating pitch centers (when played in just intonation)
from Giovanni Benedetti's "Diversarum speculationum mathematicarum"
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~1600
Catalogue of embellishments from "Il Dolcimelo" by Aurelio Virgiliano
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1601
100 cadences (V-I), written by Adriano Banchieri in his "Cartella Musicale"
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~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
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1636
Permutations of a hexachord as described in Marin Mersenne's Livre du chant in "Harmonie universelle"
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1645
The 42 two-voice resolutions of the polymorphic canon "Amor quis maior patet" by Pier Francesco Valentini
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1650
The 1540 possible melodic combinations of 19 B's and 3 C's
as described in Athanasius Kircher's "Musurgia Universalis", Book VIII
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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.
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1726
Rhythmic permutations written by Leonhard Euler in an unpublished notebook (F. 136, op. 1, no. 129, ll. 48ob-50)
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1730
100 selections from Christoph Graupner's "Canon with 5626 Inversions"
sample page
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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"
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1739
The complete-consonance chords from Leonhard Euler's "Tentamen Novae Theoriae Musicae"
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1752
The complete modulations from Francesco Geminiani's "Guida Armonica"
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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
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1754
An hour-long performance of J. S. Bach's "Kanon zu acht Stimmen" BWV 1072
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1757
Every permutation of bowing (tying) an 8-note phrase as enumerated by Joseph Riepel in his "Gründliche Erklärung"
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1757 - 1949
One piece each from historical musical dice games
a link to my online catalogue
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1776
7 modulation circles from Georg Joseph Vogler's "Gründe der Kuhrpfälzischen Tonschule"
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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"
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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"
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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.
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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
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1832 - 1965
Counting from 1 to 100 using various historical variations of the game Fizz Buzz
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1904
Justly-tuned renditions of the modulations from C-major to other keys as put forth in Max Reger's book "Modulation"
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1905
Various combinations of slurred and detached notes
from Edmund van der Straeten's "The Technics of Violoncello Playing"
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1928
Selections from Gaylord Yost's "Exercises for the Change of Position"
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1947
Excerpts from the Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns
by Nicolas Slonimsky
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1956
Melodies derived from Richard Pinkerton's Banal Tune Maker
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1959
"Drip Music" by George Brecht
Dripping water into a vessel.
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1959
Per Nørgård's Infinity Series
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1962
"Opus 9" by Eric Andersen
(a 30-second tone which lengthens by 5 seconds for every year after the composition date)
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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)
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1982
Selections from Rational Melodies by Tom Johnson
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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
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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
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1999
Heartbeat (6) by Craig Shepard
(performers make a sound every 9 heartbeats)
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1999
Counting Windows for Tom Johnson by Luiz Henrique Yudo
musical patterns based on the observed layout of window panes within a frame
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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)
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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
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2002
"Dramatische Studie Nr. 3" by Stefan Streich
(a series of tones, the time between each tone increases 1/2 second with each sounding)
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2002
"Progressions 6" by Chedo Barone
Every permutation of every 3-note collection within the 12 notes between C4 and B4
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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)
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2003
Manfred Werder's "stück 2003 (1)"
3 performers, 1 tone played twice.
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2006
The Harmonics of Real Strings by John Lely
(a slow full ascent up a single string with harmonic pressure in the left hand)
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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.)
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2007 (first ringing)
From the tradition of change ringing, the Palatino Surprise Maximus method
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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)
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2009
An audio version of Christoph Korn's Max-patch that counts to 5 over 3 days
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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
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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
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2009-2016
"Balance" by Davide Tidoni
(walking between to tone generators until their volume is perceived as equal)
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2009-2016
"Feedback" by Davide Tidoni
(approaching and turning off a loudspeaker while holding a connected microphone without causing feedback)
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2011
"The Sound of a Silent Film" by David Bellingham
Listening to a film projector play a short silent film
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2012
For each measure of Beethoven's "Für Elise", all pitches compressed into a single chord
by Johannes Kreidler
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2013
Selections from John Eagle's "incomplete polyrhythms"
a catalog of all the note/rest combinations for polyrhythms using the numbers 1-5
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2013 (first ringing)
From the tradition of change ringing, the Avalon Delight Maximus method
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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
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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.
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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.
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2015
My chord from Kevin Good's piece "The Chords in My Life", in which he composes a unique chord for people he meets
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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.
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2016
"aperture" by D. Edward Davis
(on a single tone, slowly moving the bow closer to the bridge with each change of bow)
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2017
now is the moment to learn hope by Antoine Beuger
(a sound played without knowing how and when to end)
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2018
"Erwartung 1" by Eva-Maria Houben
a free exploration of a single sonority from Schoenberg's "Erwartung"
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2018
40-minute ascending octave glissando
concept by Jeb Bishop
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2018
Transcription of a pair of shoes tumbling in an electric dryer
concept by Matt Sargent
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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.)
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2019
Transcription of a series of games of Operation
(played on the evening before the performance and recorded)
concept by Matt Sargent
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2019
Two sine tones that have a 1/3600 Hz difference
concept by Anthony Vine
August 23, 2019. 7:00pm
House concert, Minneapolis
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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
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2019
Sonification of the shortest single-digit representations of natural numbers
(numbers 0-9 mapped to pitches G3-E4, +-*/^() mapped to F4-B4)
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concept by D. Edward Davis
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2019
Exercises to derive increasingly small superparticular tuning ratios by ear on the violin
by Christopher Otto
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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
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2019
Repeated attempts to play the maximum number of discrete staccato notes on a single upbow
by Matthew Barber
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2019
Very slow detuning of the G string
by Aisha Orazbayeva
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2019
A tone every time any two hands on an analogue clock form a 90 degree angle
by Dan Ruccia
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2020
"Three Glasses" by Takahiro Kawaguchi
Three players rub wine glasses, which each have a continuous drip of water filling them at different rates
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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.
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2021
Sonification of the date of Easter each year (day of year mapped to pitch)
concept by Miller Puckette
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2021
Sonification of the date of Easter each year (day of year mapped to pitch)
concept by Miller Puckette
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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
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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)
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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
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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.
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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.
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2024
Opening Hwang Eunyoung's book "Eb", which has two velcro squares attached to the inside covers
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2024
Singing Eddie Davis's setting of the text:
"This is a song with music by Eddie Davis and text by Erik Carlson"
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2025
"Zeno's Tape Recorder" by Sepand Shahab
Repeatedly discarding the more beautiful half of a recording
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