2010 The
World's
Longest
Melody. Collection of guitar music, performed by Toon
Callier, Zwerm, and other musicians. Liner notes by Bob Gilmore.
New World Records.
Grunt, Honk, Whistle and Quack. Book of rounds on texts
by Sarah Lloyd. Limited edition publication, Timpanocriptis
Press, Tasmania, Australia. 2012.
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.
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.
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)
“Comparrangetranscraboration:
Rewriting Ruth Crawford Seeger,” MusicWorks 81, Fall 2001, 22-27
“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)
“Ruth Crawford Seeger's When, Not If, an unpublished score,” MusicWorks, Number 80,
Summer, 2001 (LP editor and accompanying notes). Also directed
first recording of the piece (with Mary Ann Haagen) for the
accompanying CD.
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.
CD, LP and other
recording anthologies containing my work
2013 Duchess Bridge, solo
electric guitar, on The $100 Guitar Project, Bridge
Records, 9381A
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.
1992 [Hebrew title] (Al Het), on Leonardo Music Journal CD #2.
[Hebrew title] (B'rey'sheet),
on Numbers Racket:
Compilation Volume #2, Just Intonation Network.
1991 [Hebrew title] (V'Leem'Shol) on CDCM Computer Music Series, Volume 11: The Virtuoso in the
Computer Age II. Centaur.
1986 Four
Voice
Canon
#3, on Music at Mills.
Mills College Centennial Album.
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)].
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).