Chronological
2023
Zange-suru Pierogi 懺悔するピロギー
for flute, clarinet, and 1 bowed string instrument (10 minutes)
flute and shakuhachi duo version (8 minutes)
Upcoming premiere, May 2023
2022
Cricket Dreams 鈴の夢 for theorbo - 5 minutes
Premiered by Asako Ueda, Oct 16 2022 Chiyoda-kyu, Tokyo 2022 at Seiryo Hall
Still Life at a Purple Window- for two shakuhachi and two violins - ca. 15 min
Premiered, Sept 22, 8pm NYC w/ Adam Robinson and String Noise Duo
Still Life - for sho, piano & toy piano, and shakuhachi - ca. 15 minutes
Premiered, August 28 with Chatori Shimizu and Suzueri
Ftarri, Bunkyo-ku Hongo 1-4-11 Okano Building Basement 1, 113-0033, Tokyo, Japan
Traces - for 2.1 shakuhachi and sho - 5 minutes
https://devonosamutipp.bandcamp.com/album/traces-ep-after-etsuko-ichikawa
31 Ways of Looking at a Vending Machine - flute, clarinet in Bb (db. bs clar.), piano, percussion, violin, violoncello - 10 min
commissioned by Thin Edge New Music Collective
Upcoming premiere, June 22, 2023 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, and Media, Toronto Canada
a murder of cranes - a siege of crows - for two kingma flutes and fixed media - 12 min
Written for Gavin Stewart
Upcoming premiere, fall 2023
2021
PIckling Mud II - four guitarists - 8 minutes
Written for Charles Corey
Lung Slag - string quartet - 8 minutes
Written for JACK Quartet
Blissful Ignorance - for saxophone and guitar - 9 minutes
Written for SANS;Duo
Premiered Remotely April 19, 2022 by Brian Ellis and Patrick J. Breiner
Stone Stomach - for string quartet - 12 minutes
Written for the Partch Quartet
Premiered by Partch Quartet, May 27, 2021
The Death of Cleopatra - flutes, clarients, soprano, violin, cello - 12 minutes
Written for/commissioned by Kamraton
Horses of Tralfamadore, or that Horse from Dresden - woodwind quintet - 5 minutes
Written for the Wild Prairie Winds
蟹原楽を考えたら。。。When I think of the Crab Fields... for ensemble of traditional Japanese instruments - 22 minutes
Written for Columbia University's Gagaku Ensemble
Poetry by suzueri
Pickling Mud - for multi tracking clarinetist(s) - 10 minutes
Written for and dedicated to Julia Lougheed
Upcoming premiere at 8th Oh My Ears Festival
2020
Niku Niwa 肉庭 - for four multi tracking performers - 12 minutes
Written for and dedicated to Paul V. Miller
5 Woodblock Print Cats – ryūteki, shakuhachi, and shō – 8 minutes
Commissioned by TrioBamboo, upcoming premiere Winter 2023
Ignis Fatuus - for three mutli tracking performers - 9 minutes
Written for and dedicated to Roger Zahab
How Things are Unmade - for two multi tracking performers - 6 minutes
Written for and dedicated to Hypercube
Tokyo Shift Response - for flute, clarinet, soprano, violin, and cello - 13 minutes
Written for and dedicated to Kamraton
Poetry by suzueri
Upcoming premiere, November 8, 2020; 7pm
Sonic Cartography - for any number of multi tracked performers - 7 minutes
Clepsydra - for any number of performers - in 1 to 3 movements - 7-22 minutes
Cloning a Mountain - for any number of performers - 7 minutes
Premiered July 25, 2020 So Percussion Summer Institute
Nod to Fellow Travelers - solo shakuhachi - 8 minutes
Premiered July 23, 2020 by the composer
2020 So Percussion Summer Institute
Hyakkiyagyo 百鬼夜行 - for solo bass - 12 minutes
written for Will Yager
Braids - for piri and shakuhachi; or solo piri; or solo shakuhachi - 5-15 minutes
written for and dedicated to Adam Robinson and gamin
Hymn/Frost - for mezzo soprano or 2.1 shakuhachi and fixed media - 4 minutes
The Echo Over the Voice - for bassoon duo - 7 min
written for Rachel Elliott and Lynn Hileman
2019
Cheat Sadness, Enjoy Suffering - for flute, clarinet, guitar, quartertone piano, quartertone accordion, violin, cello (December 2019) - 10 minutes
Written for MikroEnsemble
Upcoming Premiere at Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival at University of Pittsburgh, Feb. 29 2020
Tokyo Shift Responses: Shards (flutes, clarinets, percussion, soprano, violin) – 6 minutes
Written for TAK Ensemble
Upcoming Premiere at Bellefield Hall at the University of Pittsburgh, PA Jan., 25th 2020
Three Palimpsests - for flute and accordion - 3 minutes
Two Animal Postcards - woodwind quintet - 2 minutes
Written for the District 5 Quintet
Upcoming Premiere Winter 2020
31 Ways of Looking at a Truffle - solo flute - 6 minutes
Written for Kayla Hanvey
Upcoming Premiere, April 2020 - Budapset, Hungary
Breadcrumbs - prepared piano solo (May 2019) - 8 minutes
Pale Blue Dot - 1.8 shakuhachi and fixed media (February 2019) - 8 minutes
Premiered by Elizabeth Brown at Astrophysics/Cosmology Artist In Residence Showcase April 12, 2019, Pittsburgh PA
Dedicated to Carles Badenes
2018
Siege of Cranes - three 1.8 shakuhachi (November 2018) - 8 minutes
Upcoming Premiere July 2021, Tokyo Japan
Wild Human - solo shakuhachi (October 2018) - 6 minutes
Premiered by the composer, October 21st, 2018 - Irma Freeman Center - Pittsburgh, PA
Tokeru Reibo - for four flutes (all doubling piccolo) (July 2018) - ca. 15 minutes
Dedicated to Elizabeth Kennedy Bayer
Premiered at Oh My Ears! 6th Festival - February 3, 2019 - Phoenix, AZ
Nameless Sands - solo ichigenkin (July 2018) - ca. 6 minutes
Written for Issui Minegishi
Letters Chased in Lead - String Quartet (June 2018) - ca. 7 minutes
Written for the Mivos String Quartet
Premiered at Valencia International Performance Academy, July 2018
Lead Postcards - contrabass flute, contrabass clarinet, contrabassoon (May 2018) ca. 5 minutes
Written for Carla Rees and Rarescale
Premiered by Carla Rees (contrabass flute), Sarah Watts (contrabass clarinet), and Ashley Myall (contrabassoon) on June 21, 2018, St. Paddington’s Church, Paddington, UK
Solo - cello and bass (March 2018) - ca. 11-12 minutes
Written for Cecilia Caughman (cello) and Jeff Weston (bass) as part of the Artist in Residence Program, Hosted by the Astrophysics and Cosmology Department at the University of Pittsburgh
Premiered 13 April 2018 - Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, University of Pittsburgh
Blood on the Pavement 1984 (January 2018) - Bb clarinet (double bass clarinet), grand piano, violin, viola, cello - 10 min
Premiered, 9 February 2018 - performed by NAT28 - Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Pittsburgh, PA
2017
Heila (November 2017) - solo baroque flute - 6 min
Written for Carla Rees - Premiered 7 June 2018, Iklectik Art Lab,
20 Carlisle Lane, SE1 7LG, London England
Kezuroukai (September 2017) - amplified shô - 6 min
Written for Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival and Symposium, University of Pittsburgh, PA
Premiered by Chatori Shimizu – University of Pittsburgh – Jan. 13, 2018
Splintered Ringing - solo shakuhachi (July 2017) - ca. 6 min
Splintered Ringing – two shakuhachi (June 2017) – ca. 6 min
Written for Elizabeth Brown and Ralph Samuelson “Shakuhachi and Ichigenkin: Discovery in a Single Tone” 2017 Tour
Premiered by Elizabeth Brown and Ralph Samuelson – Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ – Sept. 28, 2017
Kintsugi (May 2017) - 1.8 shakuhachi and clarinet (any key) - 35-45 min
Upcoming Premiere Winter 2021
Fünf Träumen (March 2017) - Prepared 13 string Koto - ca. 8 min
Premiered 2 May 2017, Katherine Whaley (koto), Columbia University, New York, NY
2016
Self Portrait (October 2016) - solo 1.8 shakuhachi, string piano, prepared string trio - ca. 9-10min
Premiered 4 November 2016, Scholes Street Studio, Brooklyn NY
Adam Robinson (Shakuhachi), Humay Gasimzade (piano), Allyson Clare (viola), Brian Sanders (violoncello), Emilio Guarino (contrabass)
Entropic Orbit (September 2016) - clarinet in Bb and harpsichord, or Bb bass clarinet and harpsichord, or bassoon and accordion - 6 min
Premiered by Michiyo Honma (harpsichord) and Thomas Piercy (clarinet) , Feb. 20, 2017, Sumida Triphony Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Ozymandias (August 2016) - gagaku shô (A=430) and accordion - ca. 7 minutes
Co-commissioned by Zak Hap Seligman, Marika Terao, and Henry Liang
Premiered July 2017, Zak Hap Seligman and Robert Young MacMahon, Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC
Reasoning with Windmills (February 2016) - eight string microtonal guitar - 4 min
Written for Tolgahan Çoğulu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZThnNCqlcc
Murmurs (February 2016) - Clarinet and Muted Trombone - 9 minutes
Premiered by Julia Lougheed (clarinet) and Ryan Flint (trombone) May 20, 2016 – Marcy Chapel at FUMC, Winter Park, Florid
Maelström (January 2016) - Fixed Media - processed piano sounds - 7 minutes
2015
Augury (Dec. 2015) – oboe, clarinet, or bassoon + tape – 9 min
Commissioned by Alison Lowell (oboist)
Premiered by Alison Lowell, March 3, 2016, University Maryland College Park
Sisyphus (Sept. 2015) - Quartertone accordion and accordion (or organ) - 9 minutes
Written for Veli Kujala and Susanne Kujala
Premiered March 7th 2019, St. Martin, Kassel, Germany
Deconstructed (June 2015) - woodwind quintet - 11 min
Written for the Imani Woodwinds Chamber Music Festival, Summer 2015
Premiered by Delara Hashemi (flute), Kailin Eskander (oboe), John Antisz (clarinet), Bryn Coveney (horn), Anna Fitzgerald (bassoon), June 14, 2015, Mannes College, NY
Recalling (May 2015) - Clarinet in Bb, Violoncello, and Contrabass – 13-14 minutes
Commissioned by soundSCAPE Festival 2015
Premiered by Gleb Kanasevich (clarinet), Felix Fan (violoncello), Matt Kline (contrabass), July 13, 2015 - soundSCAPE Festival, Maccagno, Italy
Featured in “Impermenance”, a film by Ruan Suess, February 2016
180 in 3 for 5 (March 2015) for oboe, horn in F, violin, viola, cello – 4 min
Premiered by Owen Davitt (oboe), Matt Searing (horn), Robert Radliff (violin), Ivan Mendoza (viola), Kevin High (cello), May 10, 2015– Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
2014
Written for Gleb Kanasevich
Premiered by Gleb Kanasevich (solo bass clarinet) and members of Montclair State University Orchestra and Devon Osamu Tipp (conductor), Feb. 28, 2015, Montclair State University, NJ
Mutations (May 2014) – acoustic guitar trio – 6 min
Commissioned by soundSCAPE Festival 2014
Premiered by Sudbury Guitar Trio, July 3, 2014 – Vonderau Museum, Fulda, Germany
2013
Pleiades is a Pinball Machine (Dec. 2013) – quartertone marimba and quartertone vibraphone – 12 min
Written for “Migrant in the New” NYC-NJ-Oslo Tour
Premiered by Kjell Tore Innervik and Daniel Paulsen, October 3, 2014, Montclair State University, NJ
Aubade (Nov. 2013) – orchestra – 11 min
Written for Ken Lam and the Montclair State University Symphony Orchestra
Premiered by Ken Lam and the Montclair State University Symphony Orchestra, April 23, 2014 – Alexander Kasser Theatre, Montclair State University, NJ
Red Chant/Grey Note Quarrel (Sept. 2013) – bassoon – 5 min
Premiered by Devon Osamu Tipp, Oct. 11, 2013, Alexander Kasser Theatre – Montclair, New Jersey
Dialogue for Three Bastards (May 2013) – oboe, clarinet in Bb, tenor saxophone – 6 min
Commissioned by soundSCAPE Festival 2013
Premiered by Katherine Woolsley (oboe), Yi-Wen Chen (clarinet), Tim Ruedeman (tenor saxophone), July 12, 2013, soundSCAPE Festival, Maccagno, Italy
Twenty Thousand Folds (May 2013) – alto flute, guitar – 5 min
Winner of Rarescale’s 10th Anniversary Composition Competition, Student Category
Premiere by Carla Rees (alto flute) and David Black (guitar), Jan. 15, 2014, Guildhall Arts Centre - Lincolnshire, UK
Published by Tetractys Publishing; Ref: 201525/1
Lithium Daphnae (Sept. 2011, rev. May 2013) – Heckelphon/bass oboe/lupophone, viola, piano – 6 min
Premiered by Sabine Kaselow (bass oboe), Christoph Stark (viola), Jenns Hoffmann (piano), Oct. 7, 2013, Kammermusiksaal der HMT Rostock, Rostock, Germany
for Dean Drummond (April 2013) – any grand staff instrument, or cohort of related instruments – 4 min
for any of the follow instruments: Cristal Baschet, glass harmonica, piano, marimba, accordion, organ, low flute choir, viol consort, or string quartet
Premiered by Alan Buxbaum (marimba), April 26, 2013, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
2012
Chaos Theory (September 2012) – duo for quartertone marimba – 8 min
Premiered by Daniel Paulsen and Petter Haukaas (marimbas), Nov. 22, 2012, Deichmenske hovedbibliotek, Oslo, Norway
Premiered by Veli Kujala, Sept. 23, 2013, Musiikkitalo, Helsinki, Finland
Burlesque (Aug. 2012) – clarinet in Bb, piano – 4 min
Premiered by Gleb Kanasevich (clarinet), Joseph Ollson (piano), Aug. 2, 2012, Atlantic Music Festival
Waterville, Maine
Fukushima Daiichi Tetraptych (Feb. 2012) – two harps – 5 min
Premiered by Colleen Potter-Thorburn and Joseph Rebman, Aug. 2, 2012, Atlantic Music Festival, Waterville Maine