Oracle Machines (2026)
large ensemble and electronics

Set the Sun (2025)
piano and electronics

Tectonics (2023)
ensemble and electronics

Seeker (2022)
orchestra and electronics

The Atens (2022)
reed quintet and electronics

Star Taker (2019)
saxophone, violin, cello, piano, percussion, and quadraphonic playback

Actuate/Resonate (2018)
large ensemble with electronics

Lines on Black (2018)
for voice, flute, violin, saxophone, piano, percussion, and electronics

binary/momentary iii (2018)
cello and electronics

for Delia Derbyshire (2018)
bass, guitar, and electronics

Matrix for George Lewis (2017)
2 electronic silent brass trombones

binary/momentary ii: flow state/joy state (2017)
Trumpet, 2 trombones, piano, and percussion

binary/momentary logics: flow state/joy state (2016)
String quartet

delay/line (2016)
Flute and delay line

Seven Systems (2015)
2 piano, 2 percussion quartet with electronic playback and actuated snares

Points Against Fields (2015)
Bassoon and playback

hydra (2015)
Violin, piano, fixed media, and live electronics

MODULES (2014)
Brass quartet, percussion, analog synthesizer, and live electronics

Four Sixes (2014)
Percussion Sextet

Chain Reactions/Five Events (2013)
String quartet and live electronics

Sixty Cycles (2013)
Sopranino saxophone soloist, feedback televisions, violin, and cello

Broken Symmetries (2012)
Violin soloist, feedback electronics, flute, tenor saxophone, piano, and percussion

Machine Language (2012)
Percussion soloist, 2 percussion, 2 violins, 2 bass clarinets, accordion, and fixed sine tones

Portraits/Self Portraits (2011)
Violin soloist with large ensemble

ATD V (2010)
Saxophone and electronics soloists with small ensemble

Tile Mosaic (after Chagall) (2010)
Two pianos, two percussion, and resonant pails

Standing Waves (2009)
Medium sized ensemble and electronics

Matrices (2009)
Percussion trio and electronics

Signal Flow (2009)
Percussion quartet and electronics

Lyra (2007 rev. 2010)
Amplified string quartet

SWITCHES (2007)
Distorted, amplified cello and drumset

American Tokyo Daydream IV (data structures/monoliths) (2007)
Saxophones, electric guitar, and accordion

A Circle of 8 in a Prime of Primes for Sara (31), by Sam (29)
Sheng, pipa, suona, handbell choir, and live electronics

7:6 (2006, rev. 2010)
Distorted, amplified cello

American Tokyo Daydream III (The Surprise) (2006)
Piano, string quaret, and live electronics

noise + mobile (2005)
Piano and electronic playback

Matrices approaches the percussion trio as an electro-acoustic ensemble, amplifying and manipulating sounds in a digital sonic environment. The battery involved is simple, yet far from austere, consisting of a single bowed flexatone, 2 powered fans, a balloon, a plastic bag, 2 woodblocks, and a snare drum over a speaker. The work was born out of the software I use for improvisation, a large-scale modular live-processing environment built in SuperCollider. While the score is rigorously notated, the software responds to the performer's actions differently every time, resulting in a new version with each performance. Matrices was commission by TimeTable Percussion for the Austrian Cultural Forum's Moving Sounds Festival in 2009.

TimeTable Percussion:
Matthew Gold
Matt Ward
Alex Lipowski




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