Three Pieces: freeHorn (performed
by
LP, Giacomo Fiore, David Dunn, Krystyna Bobrowski, Monica
Scott, Tom Dambly, David Kant, Amy Beal); ii-v-i (LP
and GF); minmaj (from 3 Translations for Electric
Guitar)(LP and GF)
Piano music, including Three Pieces for Two Pianos,
Old Paint, k-toods, and Dismissions.
Performers: Joe Kubera, Marilyn Nonken Roy Cowal, Tobin
Chodos, Ittai Rosenbaum, Amy Beal. Notes by Michael Winter.
New World Records.
Grunt, Honk, Whistle and Quack. Book of rounds on texts
by Sarah Lloyd. Limited edition publication, Timpanocriptis
Press, Tasmania, Australia. 2012. Available from Frog
Peak Music
Music
and
Computers, co-authored with Phil Burk, Mary Roberts,
douglas repetto, Dan Rockmore. Web-book, including interactive
Java applets, with accompanying teacher’s guidefor undergraduate
computer music and audio DSP curricula. Key Publishing, 2004
The Music of
American Folk Song. Critical edition of a booklength
monograph by Ruth Crawford Seeger. With Judith Tick. University
of Rochester Press, Musicology Monograph Series. 2001
HMSL
(Hierarchical Music Specification Language), with David
Rosenboom and Phil Burk, 1985–92.Various released stand-alone
applications written in HMSL. HMSL
documentation
Many other theoretical,
compositional, interactive performance, analysis and synthesis
programs written in HMSL, MatLab, C and JAVA, available on the
web, and in various shareware versions
Articles
What
is Music?,” in What are Arts and
Sciences [a guide for the curious]? Dan Rockmore,
editor, Dartmouth University Press.
Extended liner notes to New
World Records release of James
Tenney:
Postal Pieces. Major revision of chapter of my earlier
Soundings monograph on
Tenney)
Extended liner notes to New
World Records release of James
Tenney:
Selected Works 1961-69. Revision of chapter of my
earlier Soundings monograph on Tenney). (Reissue of original
Frog Peak/Artifact CD I produced)
“Computer Music,”
historical/theoretical article entry in the Encyclopedia of Computer Science,
4th edition, Nature Publishing Group, pp. 396–404 (rewritten and
updated from Charles Ames’ previous entry), 2000
On the Wires of Our Nerves,
(Robin Heifetz, ed.), Leonardo,
23(4): 451-2. The Sackbutt
Blues: Biography of Hugh LeCaine, (Gayle Young),
Leonardo, 24(1): 98, 1990
Over 30 book and recording reviews
of traditional and contemporary American musics for OP Magazine, 1984–7
Short writings
(liner notes, editorials, published letters, solicited
contributions)
“Lou
Harrison,” in Keyboard
magazine, 4/3/17, co-authored with Giacomo Fiore. Article
focused on Harrison’s work in just intonation. Online and in
print edition
“’As
we should keep saying…’: A few words about Ezra Sims,”
solicited program book introduction to retrospective concert
of Sims’ work, Boston, MA, April, 2017
"Trio…Improvisation…Edges," Sound
American 10, October, 2014
"Depauperate Species," liner notes to Pogus double CD of Ron
Nagorcka's music, 2014
Extended liner
notes for The Piano
Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger and Johanna Beyer, Sarah
Cahill, pianist, New Albion CD, 2001
Series of theoretical letters about my work II-V-I (by Dave Mohr and
myself) in 1/1, The Journal
of the Just Intonation Network, Fall, 2000, Vol. 10, #3
Interview with painter/sound artist Heri Dono (in
English/Indonesian), Sounding
Sphere Festival book, Harima, Japan, 1998
Baker's Articles on
James Tenney and Johanna Magdalena Beyer, 1996
“David
Mahler’s Place,” liner notes, David Mahler, The Voice of the Poet,
Artifact CD, 1997
“Sounds, Musics and Leonardo,” with Roger Malina, and Elliot
Mazer, Leonardo, 23:1,
1989
"Larry
Polansky on HMSL and Computer Music," Interview by
Allistair Riddell, Chroma: Newsletter of the Australian
Computer Music Association, 3/4:9–12, December, 1989
CD, LP and other
recording anthologies containing my work
2017 tritune (3 pieces for two
guitars), on Microtonal
Music for 2 Guitars, by oh mensch (duo; Matthias Koole & Kobe Van
Cauwenberghe, guitars), Seminal Records, Brazil. 2017
2017 Piano
Study #5, for just Fender Rhodes, performed
by
Andrew Smith, limited Edition (signed and numbered) LP single,
lathe cut on transparent polycarbonate, Indexical Records
2015 Songs and Toods, complete, Elliot Simpson,
guitar, on The Wayward Trail, Microfest Records, MF6
10 Strings (9 Events), guitar and violin, for
James Moore and Andi Springer, New
World Records, 80771
Rounds: Scarlet
Tanager and Are Your Platypuses Healthy?
on rounds, the wulf
records LP, WULF 001
2013 Duchess Bridge,
solo electric guitar, on The $100 Guitar Project, Bridge
Records, 9381A
tween (from k-toods),
arrangement for four guitars, recorded by Zwerm on Underwater
Princess Waltz, A Collection of One Page Pieces, New
World Records 80748-2
Paradox,
short opera for ASL signer, musicians, video, "interpreter".
Commissioned and produced by Real Time Opera. Produced for the
web. Also at http://languages.oberlin.edu/asl-opera/
catchaiku, for two performers. Two versions,
on Fritzi
und Heidl, Bandcamp CD
(Belgium), September, 2
2012 Trio (Kui Dong, Larry
Polansky, Christian Wolff). Henceforth Records 111
Eskimo Lullaby from Songs and Toods.
Lou Harrison Just Intonation Resonator Guitar. Performed by
John Schneider. Cold Blue Anthology Two. CB80036
2009 Piker.
5 pieces for solo piccolo. Performed by Margaret Lancaster on Io, CD of contemporary
flute music. New
World Records 80665
2008 tooaytoods
15b, 16a.1, 16a.2, 16b, and Tenneytoodiii (for two pianos, from Three Pieces for Two Pianos)
adapted for The Player Piano
Project CD, Vera Ikon Productions.
Four Voice
Canon #23a (freeHorn canon) for Charles Dodge.
University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios 50th
Anniversary CD
Movement in E
Major for John Cage, on New World Records 80641,
Miwako Abe, Works for Violin with Michael Kieran Harvey,
piano. 2006
2005 DIY
Canons. Pogus CD Anthology of music by other composers
based on my four voice canons
Nothing Like
Dreaming, DVD. Independent feature film by Nora
Jacobson. Score by LP
2004 A
Pregnant Pause, voice and piano, on Jacqueline Humbert
and David Rosenboom, Chantuese, Lovely Music 4001
Farewell 2 Canon,
on Grain compilation
CD, DotDotDot003 (Ireland). Electronic work, collaboration
with late English composer Dirk (,) Rodney
2001 The
Casten Variation and excerpts from Lonesome Road, MusicWorks
81 CD
1998 The
Time is Now, Burning Books/Frog
Peak Music. (Contains two computer works: ...slippers of steel (with
Nick Didkovsky), and Cocks
Crow, Dogs Bark… (with John Bischoff
and Melody Sumner).
Frog
Peak Collaborations: 115 pieces by 62 composers on a
text by Chris Mann. Frog Peak
Music. (Contains a set of 10 short works by me).
1996 Study:
baa
baa birthday have you any star. Computer Music Journal CD
1995 Study:
Anna,
the long and the short of it. The Aerial #6, Non
Sequitur Recordings
1994 Hallways:
11 Composers and HMSL CD. Frog
Peak Music. (Contains several of my The World’s
Longest Melody: Piano Studies)
1993 Four
Voice Canon #8, on Transforms.
Cuneiform CD
(Al
Het), on Leonardo
Music Journal CD #2
1987
tyvarb(B'rey'sheet), on Numbers Racket: Compilation Volume
#2, Just Intonation Network
lvmlw(V'Leem'Shol) on CDCM
Computer Music Series, Volume
11: The Virtuoso in the Computer Age II. Centaur
1984 Movement for
Andrea Smith, on TELLUS Cassette Magazine #14
Scores published (in
periodicals, journals) [Note: Most of my scores
are published by Frog Peak Music (A Composers’ Collective)].
3 scores: 34 Chords (Christian Wolff in Hanover and
Royalton); viiity; Christian Music; in
Open Space (special C. Wolff issue), 17/18, Winter/Spring,
2015
Four Voice Canon #18 (“Trio
Canon for Christian Wolff”) published in SoundVisions, PFAU
Publications, Saarbrucken, Germany, 2005
glockentood,
published by Smith Publications, 2005
Ensembles of Note and Neighborhoods
of Note (2 Suzuki pianists), in Open Space Magazine, Issue 2, Spring, 2000
ii-v-i (for two electric guitars, or solo electric guitar) in
1/1: The Journal of the Just
Intonation Nework, Fall, 10:2, 2000
Bedhaya Sadra/Bedhaya Guthrie,
computer-composed score for voices, gamelan, and instruments, Perspectives of New Music,
34(1):28–55, 1996
The World’s Longest Melody,
in Array, Newsletter of the
International Computer Music Association, 12(3): 4–8,
1994
Horn, for French horn
and live electronics, score in Xenharmonikon 14: 80–90, 1993
Canon
for Flute, score and notes in 1/1, The Quarterly Journal of the
Just Intonation Network, 6(2): 5–10, 1990
Movement for Lou Harrison,
four basses, revised, Xenharmonikon XII: 68-90, 1988
Four Bass Studies (what to
do when the night comes …), solo bass, Xenharmonikon X, 1987
Distance Musics I-VI, and Four Violin Studies (what to do
when the night comes for Jim Tenney), in Perspectives of New Music,
25(1&2): 537-544, 545-546, 1987
Hensley Variations, Gottlieb Variations (“The Year of
Jubalo”), and Sacco,
Vanzetti (arrangement of Ruth Crawford song), New Music for Plucked Strings,
Frog Peak Music, 1987
Three Rimbaud Settings,
in Ear Magazine vocal issue 10(3), January–March 1986
Here To Stay, for
violin and pitch sensing microprocessor, in Active Listener #4, 1984
[Hebrew title] (Sh'ma):
Fuging Tune in G, score in Soundings #11, pp. 89–112, 1980
Movement for Andrea Smith
(My Funny Valentine for Just String Quartet), and Movement for Lou Harrison
(for two violins), in Xenharmonikon #6, 1977
Selected other recordings (performer,
programmer, etc.)
Guitar, Lois V Vierk’s Io,
first recording, New
World Records (2009)
Fretless electric guitarist and recording engineer, Earle
Brown’s June 1953,
Tzadik CD TZ8028: Folio
and Four Systems (Earl
Brown)
Christian Wolff’s 10
Excercises (guitar, mandolin), New World Records 80658
Guitarist/mandolinist, Ron Nagorcka’s Artimadae (recorded by
Australian Broadcasting Company); and Colloruncincla Harmonica (released on Rhythms
of the Tarkine CD)