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installations
shifting
currents (2010) (performed by Keith Rowe, Rick Reed,
and Bill Thompson)
nursery
songs for the nexus project (2007-08)
resonare/in
absentia (2005)
of
aberdeen (2005)
toward
sublimity (2005) [mp3
sample]
in/transience
(2005) [mp3]
reflection
(2004)
[mp3
download]
homage
to the new york school
to
el paso and back
mu
[mp3
sample]
guitar
1, 2, 3 (with brent fariss)
fountain
path (for fountain, walkway, contact mics, circuit-bent
toys, and stones)
summer
[mp3 exerpt]
chamber
works
gates-UK
Premiere (for burkhard beins, will guthrie, bill thompson,
and mark wastell) (2009)
cairn
(for prepared bagpipe, accordion, violin, percussion)
(2009)
construct
1 for the paella ensemble (2007)
tapu'at
(string quartet)
string
quartet no. 1 (performed by the imbroglio string quartet)
[mp3]
labyrinth
(open ensemble)
crossword
piece no. 1 (for large ensemble)
V
(quintet)
[mp3]
constellations
(open ensemble, performed by the austin new music coop)
[mp3]
quartet
for cell phones
gates
(open ensemble for 6 players, performed by the gates ensemble)
solo
works
liminal
passage for organ and computer (for Roger B. Williams)
(2006)
[mp3]
from
aberdeen for guitar (2005)
[mp3]
untitled
bass piece no 1 (for one or more basses: performed by
brent fariss, and as solo piece by thomas helton.) [mp3
fariss sample]
elements
for solo saxophone (performed by carl
smith)
solo
live-electronic works
...of
memory and dreams (2006)
[mp3 on 7hings]
february
23rd (2005)
[realplayer
video] [mp3]
on
hushed breath (2005)
[mp3]
birth
of sorrow (roland xp-50)
lullaby
(guitar and live electronics)
mysterium
drone (guitar and live electronics) (released on cadaoco's
drones, phases, and alchemy) [mp3]
ls4
(live electronics) [mp3]
tiotm
(guitar and live electronics) [mp3]
in
quiet despair, beauty (live electronics) [mp3]
dallas
3 (live electronics) [mp3]
three
formations (live electronics)
duets
and trios
shifting
currents (2010) (performed by Keith Rowe, Rick Reed,
and Bill Thompson)
thainstone
improv
(2009) with claire m singer
tripartite
collision (2005)
(live electronics, with diffusion by pete stollery and
improvised video by adam proctor) [mp3]
august
(for live electronics and contrabass, written and performed
with brent fariss) [pix]
september
(for live electronics, contrabass, and percussion, written
and performed with brent fariss)
text
and graphic works
like
the music of a madman (2009)
(performed by the Red Note Ensembel 2009) [SCORE]
from
(2005)
(performed by the Red Note Ensembel 2009) [SCORE]
v
(quintet) (1999)
[SCORE]
improv
maps (2004-present) [sample
score] (email me for key to score)
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free to perform these works but please credit me on any
performance programs and inform me so that I can post
performances on my site. If you record your performance,
again please credit me as composer and send me a copy
of the recording.)
computer
works
ascencion
[mp3]
night
[mp3]
xmas'99
(released
on phongraphy's second compilation) [mp3]
collage
(for dance production, play mas)
pop
song no. 1 (released on porkbones's hardcore america)
mu
(realized from the installation) [mp3
exerpt]
19
one minute pieces (made using field recordings from
ven voisey's somewhere/somewhere else series, one track
released on throat.org compilation)
voice
of god (tape)
field
recordings
mcalpine
construction site, footdee (2005)
hogmanay
on the north sea (2005)
[mp3]
of
aberdeen (2005)
[mp3]
derby
bells (2005)
[mp3]
country
auction [mp3]
pooper
walk
spanish
trail
windmill
[mp3]
windchimes
at renaissance fair, houston tx [mp3]
recorded
solo improvisations
five
improvisations on the destruction of opera (in 7 parts).............[mp3's
1 2
3 4
5 6
7]
field
improvisations (on-location improvisations made with
found objects) [mp3's 1
2
3
4
5
6]
improvisations
resonant
frequencies (2009)
(with burkhard beins, will guthrie, and mark wastell)
gates:
first meeting
gates:
brakhage
gates:
untitled improv (with weller's reinforce one another)
field:
emit (aka austin noise quartet, aka soundkraft, aka ghost
time, aka...)
other
solo and group improvs include performances with
the gates ensemble, faust, mickel mass, brekekekex koax
koax, concrete moniker, mark wastell, burkhard beins,
will guthrie, keith rowe, rick reed, claire m singer,
patrick keenan, jack keenan, brent fariss, josh ronsen,
field, and others.
performed/recorded
pieces by other composers
in
c by terry riley (guitar, performed with austin new
music coop)
four
meditations for orchestra by pauline oliveros (guitar,
performed with austin new music coop)
ambient
densities by jon gibson (stones, performed with austin
new music coop)
rock
meditation by pauline oliveros (stones, performed with
austin new music coop)
stones
by christian wolf (stones, performed with austin new
music coop)
fourteen
by john cage (bowed piano, performed with austin new
music coop)
december
1952 by earle brown (live electronics, performed with
the gates ensemble)
solos
for voice 17 and 22 by john cage (live electronics,
performed with brandon young)
indeterminacy
by john cage (live electronics, performed with brandon
young)
imaginary
landscape no. 4 by john cage (radio, performed with
austin new music coop)
changing
the system by christian wolff (guitar, performed with
austin new music coop)
available
forms I by earle brown (conductor, performed with austin
new music coop)
cobra
by john zorn (live-electronics, performed with austin
cobra players)
but
in this sleep, a dream by brent fariss (percussion)
process
piece no. 1 by clark crawford (live electronics)
designated
sonorities by clark crawford (piano)
rothko
chapel by keith manlove (guitar, performed
with austin new music coop) reinforce one another, conditions
for contraction by travis weller (live-electronics)
pythagoras
by phill harding (guitar)
ionisation
by edgar varese
child
of tree and branches by john cage
In contrast, Relative, Saturated with vapor by travis
weller
en la búsqueda
del sanchez (encontraron solamente fantasmas) by brent
fariss
various
fluxus pieces
released
on
autumn
leaves
bremsstrahlung
records
distillery
records
ecolirecords
phonography.org
(and/oar)
porkbones
spectral
house
state
sanctioned records
throat.org
7hings
ensembles
thomfaricraw
gates
ensemble
austin
new music coop
austin
noise quartet
field
(with rick reed)
brekekekexkoaxkoax
(with josh ronsen)
austin
cobra players
doug
ferguson guitar orchestra
paella
percussion ensemble
mickel
mass
concrete
moniker
labels
burning
harpsichord media [simmering]
spectral
house (with brent fariss)
ecolirecords
[long gone]
websites
billthompson.org
prof_lofi
(blog)
soundasart
(yahoo group)
thomfaricraw.org
(with brent fariss and clark crawford)
experimentalmusicintexas.org
(with doug ferguson) [long
gone]
ecolirecords.org
[long
gone]
the
fog (blog for weekly radio program) [gone]
concert
series
the
burning harpsichord series (2008
to present)
resonant
frequencies (with aberdeen sound festival) (2009)
experimental
music showcase (2004-2007)
soundasart
conference (w/
urbanNovember) (2006)
the
loft series (a monthly house concert hosted with brent
fariss and clark crawford as tfc)
amoda
performance series (with brent fariss)
radio
series
the
fog [gone]
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