In composing Metronome Music, I allowed myself to explore Post-Modern concepts that are outside my typical musical vocabulary such as: instructive performance art, non-instrumental timbres, visual elements, and aleatoric practices. To balance these modern and atypical techniques, I structure the work in four movements much like a classical symphony.

This piece cries, it whimpers, it weeps. It wails out in anguish and suffers in somber fearful tremors. It is about love and loneliness, passion, loss, and exhaustion. It influenced by the music of Scriabin, Berg, and Jolivent. 

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Cerebral, ethereal, and stimulating, Synthesis and Collisions is one of my most performed compositions. It is absolute music in the style of program music, and listeners often hear it as “science,” reminding them of images that telescopes take of the cosmos or graphics of molecules. Early Twentieth-Century music, particularly the works of Scriabin, Stravinsky, Ravel, Bartok, and the Second Viennese School composers heavily influence this contemporary piece. The work uses seven synthetic scales as the basis for its harmonic language. Its formal structure, methodical in its design, explores juxtaposition of extremes and uses little transition material. An often-subtle dyadic theme hovers through the work as a connective figure. Different melodic and harmonic concepts constantly coexist, interweave, pass through, and colliding throughout the space of the composition.

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I.     Finding Sails

II.    The Atmosphere Over-blossomed

III.   Realm of The Absurd

IV.  The Child Outside

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Four Songs is a cycle of my first art songs, written in 2015, all based on original texts that paint images, scenes, and sensations.  While each song is completely independent of the others, they are all connected by their colorful text and combine impressionist sonorities with expressionist subject matter. Scriabin’s piano preludes and Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder inspire its emotional intensity. This work was among the first to combine both my music major and creative writing minor.

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E minor, B-flat dominant 7, F augmented, and A-flat minor: four chords. In March 2014, I was beginning to experiment with non-functional harmony. I sat at a piano one night and by chance played these four chords. When I was unable to find a functional way of analyzing the series of chords, I experimented with minimalism and created this piece, which uses only four chords in a pre-planned manner. The entire work was finished in two days. Duet on Four Chords has seen two performances, at Rollins College and at Stetson University. It was also presented in a master class with John Harbison.