At Last
Nothing Compares 2 U
Niño Lindo
De Tierra Lejana Venimos
Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head
I Wonder as I Wander
I Go On Singing
Elizabeth Rex
The Force that Drives the Flower
Currents
Life's Blood
8
Breaking Dawn
Building + Aggression 1
SymphoNYC, conducted by Paul Haas, NY Polyphony, Bora Yoon, and me.
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SymphoNYC, conducted by Paul Haas, Bora Yoon.
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This excerpt of "Building" employs the second movement of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony as both a point of departure and a guide. Using rigorous musical forms – imitation, canon, fugue and passacaglia – the music witnesses mankind as he forms his singular identity, his perspective and his world. As he reaches completion man turns to covetousness and militantly protects that which he has created, thus "Aggression." Listen for the "ghosts" of the Armory: samples of past works performed in the space, battling for prominence amongst the previous material.
"Aggression 2" is the turning point of the concert during which the violence of war moves towards complete annihilation. An audio recording and video will be available soon. Contact me for details.
New York Youth Symphony, conducted by Paul Haas.
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From the Hopi perspective, the Tapu'at labyrinth is a symbol for emergence from one world into the next, and a description of the earth's dimensions.

This piece follows the path one would travel if emerging from the center with each circuit lasting roughly a minute - emerging into the world by the seventh minute. The music describes each energy center as correlated to the chakra system, and has been constructed in the order of pathways taken. Using the image, you may trace the pathway beginning at the center. If ordering each circuit outward from the center, you will notice that you begin on the third circuit, and it follows:
Circuit 3 - Chakra 3 - Solar Plexus - Fire
Circuit 2 - Chakra 2 - Sacral - Water
Circuit 1 - Chakra 1 - Root - Earth
Circuit 4 - Chakra 4 - Heart - Air
Circuit 7 - Chakra 7 - Crown - Spirit
Circuit 6 - Chakra 6 - Third Eye - Light
Circuit 5 - Chakra 5 - Throat - Sound
Spectre Scenes follows the path of a disembodied soul, one that is trapped within this plane of existence by some tremendous grief. Reliving the terrible events of its demise over and over, the spectre haunts its space. Slowly its shape – its leftover humanness – comes into focus.The spectre tells the story of its grief, and with this release it is freed of its horror and vanishes into the ether.
Paul Fowler, overtone voice, with SymphoNYC, conducted by Paul Haas.
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(Parasangate)
In the Heart Sutra, the bodhisattva of compassion, Avalokitesvara, describes a fundamental concept in Buddhism (known as the “heart” of Buddhism): “Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.” Rather than go into a lengthy discussion of this seminal text, I’d like to say why its significant to me, and the way I understand it. This emptiness, this “luminous” emptiness, is the gateway to compassionate action. Once realizing that all things, ideas, and the whole of reality are empty (and that emptiness is all things), the mind is freed from the division of self and other and a quality of true compassion is unleashed into the world. Through emptiness we are inseparable, in turn, our experience of suffering is also inseparable. Simply put, we are all in this together. I think we all know this already but we are consistently forgetful and these ideas and practices are here to help us remember.
The piece uses the mantra given to us by Avalokitesvara at the end of the Heart Sutra as a guide on the path to exploring emptiness and compassion: “gate gate, paragate, parasangate, bodhi svaha.” Many people say mantras cannot – or should not – be translated, as they believe it is the sound of the words as a generator of consciousness that does the work...nevertheless, here it is: gone gone, beyond gone, beyond completely gone, awakened, so be it.
Paul Fowler, piano.
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2. Bug
3. Fish
"Bird" was initially composed to accompany a short animated film.
The goal of the next two pieces is to explore these creatures through a child-like lens, as inspired by the children's books which I've been reading to my son.














