A Force of Nature (trumpet, electronics and video), premiered by Aaron Hodgson in 2017, is one of a series of sonic and visual explorations of the mathematics of chaos theory.  The performer responds to sound and video generated by the Rössler Equations.  If you have a pair of red-cyan glasses, you can see the evolving shape of the strange attractor in full 3D. Score and electronics published by QPress.

Murmurings (guitar and live electronics) recorded live at the 21st Century Guitar Conference in Ottawa, August 2019, performed by Matthew Karaś.  The guitar sound is convolved with itself to create what you hear.

Siciliano (flute and alto clarinet).  An older and shorter piece from 2006, showcasing the underappreciated alto clarinet. Performed by Renee Walrafen and Patrick McGraw.

Short excerpts from the opera The Machine Stops (libretto by Michael Patrick Albano, score written in collaboration with Robert Taylor and Steven Webb), performed by students of the University of Toronto Faculty of Music Opera Division in 2016. The story is based on a 1909 novella by E.M. Forster which uncannily anticipated the hazards of the Facebook era and perhaps the effects of social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Ghost Fishes and Birds of the Magnetosphere (Amplified piano trio and live electronics).  One of a series incorporating natural sounds from the Earth's magnetosphere.  Whistlers are the echoes of distant lightning strikes. The descending "whoosh" arises from waves propagating at different speeds along invisible magnetic field lines: higher frequencies arrive earlier.  Here the instruments are subjected to a process that mimcs that dispersion, blending their sounds with those of natural whistlers.

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