music

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• =recorded
*=commissioned

Piano works
Think, before you think! . 2004 3 :00
Cooling off/ after the heat.2005 1min 25 sec •
In the 80’s my heart was broken. 1985
• 2 min 20 sec.
The empress of tea 2005 3 min.
The black Squirrel. 2013 3 min.
 
“jazz song forms” from 1982 to present
St. Groundhog’s Mystic Swing. 1980  5 min.
Mudpies. 1982, 5 min.
Children with bad dreams. 1987  6 min.
Waltz for Buddy.  1985  3 min.45 sec. •
Remember, if you drink, don’t draw. 1988 3 min.40 sec
Music for a romantic movie .1983 4 min 35 sec.
Laughing Mary. 1986 5 min 30 sec
A dance class for Jesse Helms 1990 •
Blues For Gandhi 1990 5 min.  
Drama in real life 1991 6 min. •
Momento Tranquilo 1991 4 min.
La Primavera llegara  1992 7 min.
Death on Kill Creek road 1995 6 min.
Are your friends spiders? 1992  5 min 30 sec.•
Galloping Demons 1991 4 min.   
These desperate times  1993 5 min.
Rhumbacita para Lynn 1993   2 min.
Thinking of Filbert. 1992 4 min.
Waltz for Bubba.1995 4 min.
The bear within. 1998  5 min•
Evil, through and through. 1991 6 min.
Moland. 1993 8 min.
The Wheel Rolling King 1994 5 min.
The wooden fish of the apocalypse .
Shhh !  The Monkey girlie is sleeping !  1999 4 min.
Moon beaver In Vermont 1999 2 min 45 sec•
Mayflies 1999 1 min.28 sec•
For Jack: 2012, 4 min, piano trio
La vie des garcons 2012 6 min,
Midmorning 2012 4 min.
Sad otter waltz.2012 5 min.
Living in a  tragic French film. 2013 6 min.
Haki Gnaw, Largo largo. 2014 4 min. 30 sec
In case the world continues .2012 ( co w-written with Nathan Hanson) 6:min
Children of Neptune. 2015 5 min 
 

Larger works
Krack, topple & rack.
1991 10 min. piano and dancer 1991 dancer Bob Zehrer *
Music for the fall of Usher.
1992  26 min. piano, el guitar, violin, bass 1992 Red eye theatre*
A mind is a terrible thing (without a heart) 2003 22 min. Bill Banfield’s B-Magic Orchestra. Jerome Fellowship Commission*
Brambles at night.    2013   11 min   piano, reel to reel /effects 2014 with/David Andre
Postcards of a Waterfall. 2013 8:00 narration, piano, tenor saxophone, keyboards
Urban Sparrow dreams .   2010 14 min voice, flute.t sax, dr, mar/vbs, perc 2017  
The Power of rivers.  1998  35 min. Jazz nonet/voice  1997 Todd Harper+ * Landmark Center, St. Paul.
                                               
Voice
Fear and loathing. 19912 min voice/piano
My clean house.  1991 2 min voice/piano
Three Of Time and Memory.1999  4 min. baritone/piano 2001 Todd Harper
Autumn Poems . 2001  6:00  baritone, piano   2002  Alan Bryan, baritone•
Fishing Poem.  2005  3:30 soprano, violin, djembe    Kim Sueoka,  ensemble
Things,. 2005 2 minutes SATB voices Composer’s syndicate
February. 2004 1min  22 sec.   Mezzo –soprano, piano. 
Kite song
  1:33 2009    Mounds Park Academy lower school choir    *
China, my heart
.1 min
Rock song for a gull friend. 2003
Baritone death song.      2005  
Bear and rabbit want the same apple.  12 min.. jazz opera; narration, piano, tenor saxophone,
Rattlesnake song #2. 2009 voice,  cello.
 
3 songs:for the Gustavus Adolphus Nobel Concert*
 Looking into the river.
, 2011 2 min    baritone, piano Dr. Michael Jorgenson
State of the Art.
2011 3 min baritone, piano, bass trombone 
Tomorrow will be today
.     2011 7 min  baritone, piano. 
 
 
Student works
Three sketches for spring
. 5min. strings, percussion, piano 2015 Laura Jeffrey Academy strings. *
5 eternal archetypes. 2 013 5 min. alto sax. marimba,vibe. 20013 Phillip Vinson student recital*
 
Piano, violin,cello  trio
Milonga for MacKenzie, 3 min.  2015 violin, cello, piano  Modern Spark Trio  *
Ruby’s Revolution” 2 :50 2015  
Ostinato for Reagan  2:40 2015  
           
Video
Dawn Mikkelson  Irrigate project
“Planting creativity: Artists, Place and Transit” premiered  on TPT’s MN Channel on August 24, 2014 *
Brenda Bell Brown   independent film She hardly raised her
voice background music
*
Music for  ‘Recurring Viewpoints’. with Artist /videographer Andrea Thoma. Installation. aired in August 14-28 2014 at ‘Badenwuerttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart ,Germany *
Music for “ Rehearsal” for Andrea Thoma,  filminstallation, University of Leeds, England, 2016 *
 
 
Unsound trio (accordion, piano bass trombone)
 
Man with a sunset hat  1993      
For All sleeping babies 1996•
Jig for Jillian 1996
The babies of ‘ 92 •
The opening of the eyes*
Larry’s farm  1996
Crow in my dreams •
Have you been out in nature?
Toxic runoff
The rooster that’s left
Wild guinea pigs
It’s a helluva war; 1996
Shrimp’s chance to dance •
Under the rug rag •
The sadness of lilacs  1995  3 min.   
Boats for frogs 1991 •
Starling on a wire: 1995
 
 
 
 
Percussion ensemble
Bass drum dance
,2004 6 min percussion ensemble. 2005 Temporal Mechanics Union, Kansas
A fluid  thing 2005 6 min percussion ensemble. 2005 TMU
Migrations.2005.
35 min  percussion ensemble. 2005 TMU
Signals
. 2006  25 min s  percussion ensemble w narration 2008  TMU
Stones under the water.  piano/ percussion
For Rahsaan Roland Kirk.    tin whistle/ percussion
 
 
Musical Theatre  Music for “ The Sawyer and his men
”2007•

 
Don’t go to Togo .   3  min   Barbershop quartet w/narration  
Moosehead jig.3 min.  tin whistle, accordion guitar & piano 
The boys of the CCC .   4 min  trumpet, saxophone,clarinet, trombone, guitar,  drums, percussion
My log cabin.  2min 30 sec.  harmonica trio, bass, guitars
My bark canoe.   3 min.  voice, guitar mandolin
What I remember ( as a boy of the north).  3 min.   two male voices, piano
Little raccoon march .  2 min. harmonica trio
Full raccoon march.2 min. trumpet, trombone,  saxophone clarinet, percussion
 
 
Recordings:
CD’s
Trees:  2018
Before dawn:  2017 
Winter survival: 2017
Metaphorsisis: 2016
9th stream music:   2016
Keys Please: the early years: 2012
The river inside of trees:   2011
The monster of Keys Please: 2003
The bear within:  1999
 
DVD
Three pieces in the shape of Erik Satie :2007