Based on the poem by Pablo Neruda, En Los Bosques is a dialogue between a bassoon and prerecorded audio. The track to En Los Bosques is a mix of personally made recordings. Congos, djembe,
Expression for Flute is an original concert piece for flute and piano written by Jack Normain Kimmell. This masterful piece evokes a feeling of unease with its use of atonality and
Flayed is a composer's equivalent of a free improvisation on a few motives. While the overall structure of the piece is a tidy A-B-A form, the individual phrases are often irregular or elided and
The Native American ghost dance is part of a religious ceremony for the regeneration of the earth and the restoration of the earth's caretakers to their former life. The religion experienced its fullest and
By convention, the theme of a set of variations is stated at the start. However, the theme of Lockdown Variations comes at the end of a musical mystery tour. Eleven variations, deploying a
Outside my San Francisco apartment window seemingly unrelated sounds fade and pan. Street traffic, fog horns, rain, emergency sirens, pedestrians, freight ships - they all seem to create their own
Now a staple of contemporary saxophone repertoire, the four movements of Kilstofte's Sonata imply a Baroque sensibility served with a [post-]modern twist. Its infamous Recitative (featuring