Creative Work and Research
Technology
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2006 |
Unpulser (2.0, Beta 2.02):
An Environment for Pre-compositional Planning and Analysis with Additive
Rhythms. With
Ian Saxton. In
peer review. |
Articles in Professional Journals
|
2007 |
Perceiving
and distinguishing simple timespan ratios without metric reinforcement. Journal of New
Music Research, 37/4 (December 2007). |
|
2006 |
What
are Musical Paradox and Illusion? (Review Essay) American Journal of Psychology 120/1
(Spring 2007), 123-139. |
|
2003 |
(With
Christopher Williams) “On the Piano Music of Benjamin Carson: A
Correspondence of Essays” The Open Space Magazine 5 (Fall 2003), 231-250. |
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2003 |
Review
Essay “John Adams and a Counterpoint of Contemporary Reasoning: The Los
Angeles Philharmonic’s El Niño, March 2003, Echo V/1) (http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/echo/volume5-issue1/reviews/carson.html) |
Contributions to Books
(Interdisciplinary)
|
2004 |
“Tough Questioning,” in Shock and Awe: War on Words –
Feminist Provocations 1. Bregje
van Eekelen, Jennifer González, Bettina Stötzer, and Anna Tsing, Eds. New
Pacific Press: Santa Cruz, 2004. 153-154. |
Honored and Recently Premiered
Compositions
|
2009 |
Lesser
Myths I & II: Anonym, Atalune, Infidel Collection
of five works for C trumpet, alto saxophone, contrabass, two keybaord
instruments, and two percussionists. Premiered by Yarn/Wire with Rhonda
Taylor, Chris Williams, Glen Whitehead at a Columbia University Performance
Program Special Event: “The Music of Benjamin Carson” (Mar 26, 09) |
|
2008 |
Mediations,
Tenors for vibraphone with wooden objects and marimba with metal
objects. Premiered at SUNY Stony Brook (Mar 5 09) Pieces,
Threaded, for piano. Premier (Apr 08): UCSC
[9’40”] |
|
2007 |
Takes
to the Stage for solo cello. For Franklin Cox.
Premier (Apr 07): UCSC “Hysterics
/ Reminiscences” [4’20”]; “Ana Agnosis / Paranoia”
[4’00”] for solo piano. |
|
2004 |
“‘Fors
Seulement…’, fors seulement condition” [4’30”] for piano,
performed (Jun 04) at J.M. Harris’ faculty recital, New England
Conservatory’s Summer
Institute for Contemporary Piano Performance; and by Carson (Apr 04) at
UCSC and (Oct 05) at Sydney Conservatory’s “Music and Social
Justice” Conference. |
|
2003 |
“Detáler”
[6’30”] for contrabass, three voices, and eight instruments. Commissioned by Christopher
Williams. Premier (UCSD): Cond.
Harvey Sollberger. Winner, 1st prize, International Bass Festival
(London) |
|
1994 |
“Slowly
a Sweetness” [4’15”] for baritone and six instruments. Premiered
(Jul 92) at Aspen Summer Music Festival. |
|
1992 |
“A
Dream Before Sleeping” [8’00”] for seven instruments. Recorded (Jan
93) by Steven Mosko and members of the Portland New Music Ensemble. |
Scores Published
|
2003 |
“Plain-clothes Cop,” for piano. In The Open Space
Magazine 5, Fall 2003. 236. |
Public Lectures and Major
Conference Presentations
|
2009 |
Hearing
Time Freely: theoretical psychology, psychology of rhythm, and rhythm theory.
Between the
Cracks: Intersections of Discipline in Science and Art. Lecture Series at
Oregon State University. Corvallis, March 29. |
|
2007 |
Perceiving
and distinguishing simple timespan ratios without metric reinforcement. Society for
Music Theory. Baltimore, November 15-18. |
|
2005 |
Stream
Segregation and Rhythm Perception. The Psychonomic Society’s Auditory
Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting. Toronto, November 10. |
|
|
Lecture-recital
“Subjectivity and Collectivity in Late 20th-Century Piano Music.”
Musicological Society of Australia’s Music and Social Justice Conference. Sydney Conservatory, October 2. |
|
2004 |
Lecture
“Compositional Economy and Self-Identical Bodies in New Music.” Oakes
College, UC Santa Cruz: Cultural Studies Colloquium, May 26. |
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Lecture
“Pulse and special linear identity.” Perception et Cognition Auditives,
Paris Universite V. September 1999. |
Other creative activity
2005-2007 Developer
and Coordinator: Music Education at the New Horizons
School for Homeless and Home-transitioning Children
(2006- )
1993 Installation/Mural with
paleontologist Patrick Spencer (1993) “A to-scale Representation of
Geologic Time” [wood, acrylic, and sand, 46m x 0-2m]. Whitman College,
Walla Walla WA. Reviewed in The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Stairwell Art
Captures a World in Progress” (October
1993).
http://chronicle.com/che-data/articles.dir/articles-40.dir/issue-08.dir/08a00704.htm
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