Scores

MD Trio scores

These are examples of my trio scores, which often mix staff and graphic notations. These albums were composed for Christopher Tordini (bass) and Dan Weiss (drums), with me on trombone/electronics.

Resonating Abstractions
Clean Feed Records, 2014
Album info
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Forget The Pixel
Clean Feed Records, 2011
Album info
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(See also the score video below)

Scorestreams

I also compose scorestreams, my term for dynamic, algorithmic scores made for improvisers. Here’s one example:

Somewhere In The Upstream
Dedicated to Yusef Lateef (1920-2013)
Composed for the Michael Dessen Trio, featuring Christopher Tordini and Dan Weiss
Clean Feed Records, 2018
Album info. Listen on Apple Music, Spotify.
Download score PDF (full album) (This is a dynamic scorestream, so there is no paper score, but the PDF explains the software and includes many of the graphics.)

Telematic scores

I’ve composed different kinds of scores for telematic music performances. Some examples:

All nearness pauses
Composed for Changing Tides 2 (2020), a telematic concert between California and Korea
Video of the performance
Download PDF score

for instance, today (Amherst-San Diego version)
Composed for Virtual Tour: A Reduced Carbon Footprint Concert Series (2013)
Video excerpt
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Far Cries, Part 1: Ansan
Composed for Changing Tides 1 (2016)
Audio excerpt
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Other scores

What Peace Can We Hear
Originally composed for Interconnections for Peace: A Telematic Concert in Seoul, San Diego and New York City (2018), and performed with many other groups in the years since.
Video of a performance with Myra Melford and Mark Dresser

The Rumpus
Composed for the collective quartet Cosmologic, which was active from 1999-2012 (Jason Robinson, Michael Dessen, Nathan Hubbard, Scott Walton).
From the album Eyes In The Back Of My Head (2008, Cuneiform Records)
Audio
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