Psalm 47

Inhaling and exhaling quite deliberately as one plays a growing melody. Basically a flute piece, though other wind instruments are welcome to try it. 7-11 minutes.

Seven-note chords, sometimes tonal. sometimes atonal. are constructed logically with the same six intervals in different orders. The orchestration changes slightly every 12 chords and it takes 20 minutes

Logical up-and-down progressions, dedicated to Didier Aschour. Five short movements in 9 minutes.

Five movements for percussion trio: Similarities, Differences, Canons, Well-Formed, and Mirrors. Easy to play for percussionists who never make mistakes. Small instruments. About 15 minutes.

Someone is at the door, but the two singers are too tired to answer it. They sing many cadences on the word "yawn." Two sopranos and piano.

The baritone catches fish and hangs them up to dry while the tenor looks on, wondering why. Baritone and piano, in English, 15 minutes.

The baritone, the tenor and the soprano all try to listen to time for 15 minutes. The pianist and the audience do too. In French but easily translatable.

The composer writes : In this work I wanted to listen to all the ways that chords of one note, two notes, three notes, four notes, and five notes could be orchestrated using five instruments. 

About the score, the composer writes : The numbers 1 to 19 represent 19 notes of the chromatic scale. Begin with the central chord (4, 11, 16), and following the lines, move to adjacent chords, always

This pieces makes good use of the fact that organ sounds can be held indefinitely, quite different from instruments that have to breathe, and the music is special in another important way. Usually when an

Any instrument may play these logical sequences, which become longer and longer, to infinity.

Kientzy Loops was written for the saxophonist Daniel Kientzy, who premiered it, with Reina Portuondo, at the ADAC in Paris on November 21, 2000, as part of a Meta Duo concert. In January 2001 the piece

Three percussionists [one cowbell, one wood block, one bongo] seem to be "mocking" one another as they progress from one rhythm to another slightly different rhythm, all nicely charted in graphic

A tubist talks to and plays with his instrument for seven minutes, in English. 

There are 120 permutations of five notes to play with bells or glockenspiel, and a question to be asked after each one. The text is given in English, French and German, and the piece lasts 25 minutes.

A collection of movements extracted from Organ and Silence, dedicated to John McAlpine. Premiered in Düsseldorf in September, 29, 2002. 25 minutes.

A collection of 28 organ pieces to be played separately or as a long recital. A minimal meditative kind of music with much more silence than sound. 120 minutes.

Other Harmony, subtitled "beyond tonal and atonal," summarizes tonality in terms of Rameau, Euler, and Mazzola, and atonality via Allen Forte's The Structure of Atonal Harmony and also presents the ideas of

After each phrase, the listener is asked to decide whether the two things heard were the same or different. This test of perception skills can be presented silently and discreetly, or with vocal audience

The pianist talks and plays with his collaborator, a loudspeaker. A performance tape, made by the composer in 1969, is available, but it is preferable to make a new one, with the performer's own voice and

"An appreciation of the connection between mathematics and music dates back at least to Pythagoras, but rarely does one have a chance to explore that connection in such intimate detail as in these bracing

Four logical progressions for four instruments, each playing independently from the others. Clarinet, trombone, piano, and cello. 10 to 12 minutes.

For vibraphone, string quartet, marimba & accordion. Dedicated to the mathematician Leonard Soicher, this piece is based on some of Soicher's designs. The music is in three sections. There is no score,

For piano. Short pieces based on a computer program. Contents: From Networks; Originals and Copies; Sampson's Solution; Pathways 1 to 33; Slow changes; Quatrains; 11 Times 3; Harmonic Stability;