MusicatlasMusic
Over 500 works, including:
Large scale pieces (selective list)
- Scribbles (1975; 2003) any instruments
- Massuicide (1978) 4 voices
- Lonely Swimmer (1979) piano and chamber orchestra
- Rec Vehicle Mishap Kills Ex-Officer (1981) voice & ensemble
- You (1982) rock opera
- Pop (1984) voice & orchestra
- The Symphony of Noise (1987-88) electronics
- Rites religieux ancien et ètranger (1988) electronics
- I’m Free, You’re Dead (1990) rock opera
- Happy Birthday Agony at Home (1990) electronics
- San Pedro Adagio (1993) cantata
- Angeleno Concerto (1997) piano & orchestra
- 120 Boxes for Joseph Cornell (2001) 4 turntables & visuals
- Sinfonia 2003 (2003) electronics
- Academics Attempting to Grasp the Unknowble (2004) any instruments
- Schumann and Smetana’s Combined Sine (2004) 2 sine tones
Shorter Instrumental pieces (selective list)
- Is Who? (1981) controlled improvisation
- Portrait of Jennie (1987) piano
- Meditative or Vegetative State? (1988) electronics
- Charleston for Raymond Scott (1994) chamber group
- The Powers That Remain (2002) clarinet & strings
Songs (mostly own texts)
- Philosophy of Happiness (1980)
- Drinking Elvis Wine (1981)
- Cinderella Complex (1981)
- (When I Kiss You) You Look Like John F. Kennedy (1983)
- Ubbo Sathla (1989)
- Lobby 2 Door B (1992)
- The Little House on 21st Street (1992)
- Adamson (2004)
Life
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1961. Began composing music at the age of nine, mostly self-taught, but studied theory with Frank Lang and composition with David M. McKay at the School for Creative & Perfroming Arts in Cincinnati, and later composition with Jonathan Kramer and Charles Sepos at the University of Cincinnati. Founder member of the now-defunct Cincinnati Composer’s Guild. Founder and president of Hospital Records, a Cincinnati-based label devoted to avant-garde and underground rock music beginning in 1980. Radio programmer on WAIF-Radio, Cincinnati and co-founder of the still-active "Art Damage" radio program begun in 1985, devoted to experimental music. Is a music expert and author of hundreds of articles on music and musicians, mostly published by the All Music Guide 2001-present, however also for ARSC Journal, WAIF Alert, WCBN Program Guide, www.redhotjazz.com and others.
