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featured downloads

reflections installation [download]

february 23rd video [download] [stream]

from aberdeen [download]

 

improvisations

various solo and group improvs including gates, rick reed, mark wastell, keith rowe, patrick keenan, jack keenan, brent fariss, josh ronsen, field, and others.

varo

installations

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]

reflection (2004) [mp3 download]

resonare/in absentia (2005)

of aberdeen (2005)

toward sublimity (2005) [mp3 sample]

in/transience (2005) [mp3]

nursery songs for the nexus project

 

chamber works

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)

construct 1 for the paella ensemble

 

solo works

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)

from aberdeen 2005 [mp3]

liminal passage for organ and computer (for Roger B. Williams) 2006 [mp3]

 

solo live-electronic works

birth of sorrow (roland xp-50) [mp3]

lullaby (guitar and live electronics) [mp3]

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)

february 23rd (2005) [realplayer video] [mp3]

on hushed breath (2005) [mp3]

...of memory and dreams. (2006) [mp3 on 7hings]

 

duets (and a trio)

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)

tripartite collision (2005) (live electronics, with diffusion by pete stollery and improvised video by adam proctor) [mp3]

 

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

country auction [mp3]

hogmanay on the north sea (2005)[mp3]

pooper walk

spanish trail

windmill [mp3]

windchimes at renaissance fair, houston tx [mp3]

of aberdeen (2005) [mp3]

derby bells (2005) [mp3]

mcalpine construction site, footdee (2005)

 

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]

 

recorded group improvisations (participated in)

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...)

 

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

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

labels

spectral house (with brent fariss)

ecolirecords [long gone]

 

websites

experimentalmusicintexas.org (with doug ferguson)

ecolirecords.org

thomfaricraw.org (with brent fariss and clark crawford)

soundasart

the fog (blog for weekly radio program)

billthompson.org

 

concert series

the loft series (a monthly house concert hosted with brent fariss and clark crawford as tfc)

amoda performance series (with brent fariss)

experimental music showcase (scotland)

the burning harpsichord (scotland at the lemon tree)

soundasart conference (scotland w/ urbanNovember)

 

radio series

the fog

 

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