Song
As a composer, my work generally fits into one of two streams of activity: my site-specific works for improvising musicians, and songs that set texts by published authors, to be sung by Susanna Hood in different contexts.
My most elaborate song project is The Muted Note (2011-15), a suite of eleven songs based on P.K. Page poems. Another suite of songs (or one nine-part song), Applications (2016-24), sets a poem by Robert Hass, “Applications of the Doctrine.”
“The self has agreed to lecture / before a psychoanalytic study group. / On the appointed day he / does not appear, thereby / meeting his obligation.” • From “Applications of the Doctrine,” in Field Guide (New Haven: Yale UP, 1973)