Aaron CASSIDY

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from Metallic Dust (1999)

 

chronological listing  2010.09   2008.7    2006.04   2003   2002   2001.00   1999.97

listing by instrumental forces  solo   chamber   ensemble

MP3 excerpts are provided only as samples.  Full-length recordings and scores of all works are available by contacting mail [at] aaroncassidy.com.

   
  1999

zero panorama

[ english horn, violin, soprano, mezzo soprano ]

Written as part of the Voix Nouvelles Composition Courses 1999, sponsored by the Fondation Royaumont. On a text by Steven McCaffrey: "gnotes", from Theory of Sediment, "Clints & Grykes".

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Metallic Dust

[ solo amplified bass clarinet ]

For Harry Sparnaay.  Premiere by Carl Rosman, St. Cyprian's Church, London, October 2002 (sponsored by BMIC), with ten monophonic miniatures for solo pianist.  

Official submission by the Miami ISCM section to represent the United States at the ISCM World Music Days 2005 in Zagreb.

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See also, “Interconnectivity and Abstraction:  metallic dust as a testing ground for monophonic and structural polyphonies.”  New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century, Volume 1, Polyphony & Complexity.  Mahnkopf, Schurig and Cox, eds.  Wolke Verlag, June 2002. 

1998

garden of forking paths

[ four alto saxophones ]

Commissioned by the Ancia Saxophone Quartet, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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t o x i n

[ for amplified ensemble: alt fl (picc), ob (eh), hpschd, vln, vc ]

Premiere at June in Buffalo Festival for Emerging Composers 1999:  Patti Monson, fl/picc; Jacquie LeClair, ob/eh; Clemens Merkel, vln; Jonathan Golove, vc; Amy Dissanayake, hpschd; Erik Oña, cond.

Included in reading session by Ensemble Intercontemporain, April 1999.

Finalist in 1999 ASCAP Young Composer Awards.

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1997

Relief Construction

[ for large wind ensemble : 3 3 3 2 / 0 4 2 1 / 4 sax / pf / 6 perc / 2 elec. bass gtr. ]

Finalist in 1998 ASCAP Young Composer Awards.

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