Check out the full song on the album "What They Never Told You" by S.K.I.P., or Du Yun's version of the song (also built on my beat, but with added live players) "Stay", on her MySpace page www.myspace.com/duyun

One in a series of collaborations that I did with students in my digital music class, back when I was teaching middle school. These are 7th and 8th graders at Oasis Charter Middle School in Cape Coral, FL. We created the instrumental tracks together…

"putting new dope twists on licks that Philip Glass wrote" -Hybrid Groove Project, "HGP Anthem"

In the summer of 2001, I took a road trip across the United States with two friends on some grant money from my grad school program. Our mission was to make a multimedia art documentary about people's relationship to water in different parts of…

This piece was written for the Vance Quartet, a student clarinet quartet at Oberlin in 2002. My wife is one of the 2 bass clarinetists heard on this recording-- we'd known each other for a few months at this point. The electronic sound collage…

A meditative space for guitar, harp, vibraphone, english horn, french horn, viola, cello, and double bass, from my large work "Mandala of the Four Directions" (2004).

Performed by my wife, Marie Rinkoski, on clarinet. Recorded in the woods around Ithaca NY, and layered with some scratchy vinyl pops. This clarinet melody is the introduction to a song I wrote on one of Pablo Neruda's Sonnets.

I recorded this short solo vocal with a minidisc recorder while up in a tree. This is a one-take, one-track recording (with lots of delay added, to be sure). The bird you hear was actually accompanying me at the time. A later, expanded version…

I recorded this short piece on guitar for my friend Andy Hulse's 2003 film "High Lonesome". This part is for a driving scene with no dialogue. Early morning in a southwestern Texas landscape.

Music for the credits of a film called "High Lonesome" by Andrew Hulse. I originally wrote this for guitar, viola, and double bass. In this new version, the lead melody is played by my wife on clarinet.