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Word for Word (2011, 10 min.)
Trumpet Concerto (2010, 20 min.)
Patriot (2007, 9 min.)
Song to Craving (2003, 9 min.)
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Partition (2010, 21 min.)
Cantata: Songs for the Divided (2004, 20 min.)
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Cutest Little Arbitrage (2011, 12 min.)
Is it Dirty (2010, 8 min.)
Eyelid Margin (2009, 12 min.)
Snowball (2008, 6 min.)
Illuminating the Maze (2008, 14 min.)
My Catalonia (2008, 7 min.)
Make it out (2008, 5 min.)
You Have AIDS (2008, 5 min.)
Katrina Ballads (2007, 1 hour)
Cordavi and Fig (2007, 8 min.)
Seven Small Love Songs (2004, 8 min.)
Antiphon (2003, 8 min.)
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Parlor Diplomacy [solo piano] (2011, 20 min.)
Electric Guitar Quartet (2011, 60 min.)
String Quintet (2011, 20 min.)
The One you Guard the Most (2009, 6 min.)
Thaw (2009, 12 min.)
Ghostspace (2009, 8 min.)
Vessels (2008, 10 min.)
Crib Dweller (2007, 8 min.)
I Remember (2007, 8 min.)
Warning Song (2006, 7 min.)
Variations and Filters (2006, 12 min.)
23 (2005, 8 min.)
One of Us, One of Them (2005, 8 min.)
Greyhound to Santa Fe: 4am (2005, 8 min.)
Once the Search (2004, 17 min.)
Spin (2004,8 min.)
Brass Quintet (2001, 4 min.)
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Room for Something (2011, 8 min.)
Away (2010, 6 min.)
Privilege (2009, 14 min.)
Mass for St. Mary’s (2008, 10 min.)
Because (2006, 6 min.)
Fortress (2005, 8 min.)
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
(2005, 7 min.)
Stratagems (2004, 8 min.)
Murder on the Road in Alabama (2003, 6 min.)
Todos Parense (2002, 5 min.)
Ubi Caritas (2000, 5 min.)
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Intimacy and Resistance (2010, 5 min.)
Charleston Songbook (2008, 20 min.)
I Remember (2007, 8 min.)
I Carry Your Heart (2007, 5 min.)
(mis)communications (2001, 15 min.)
Rise up, my love (1999, 3 min.)
Early Songs (1996-2003, 15 min.)
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Is it Dirty (2010, 8 min.)
359 Each Time (2010, 8 min.)
Last Man Standing (2008, 4 min.)
Illuminating the Maze (2008, 50 min.)
My Catalonia (2008, 7 min.)
Make it out (2008, 5 min.)
Warning Song (2006, 7 min.)
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R We Who R We (2011)
Music from 'la plage'(2010, 40 min.)
Music from 'under the house'(2009, 10 min.)
Music from 'Checkmate' (2008, 10 min.)
The Coffin (2004, 6 min.)
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The following songs are adaptable for different band combinations:
359 Each Time
All The Things
Ambitioning
Ashley Nelson (from Katrina Ballads)
Barbara Bush: 9.5.05 (from Katrina Ballads)
Body Moving
Burning TV Song
Dennis Hastert: 8.31.05 (from Katrina Ballads)
Everything You Do
I Mean Well
I Want Never
Is It Dirty
Kanye West: 9.2.05 (from Katrina Ballads)
Make it Out
My Favorite Ride
Never Said Nothing
Protection
Shame Campaign
This Time
We Didn't Know

 

Illuminating the Maze (2008, 14 min.)

trumpet, horn (doubling accordion), clarinet, violin, electric guitar, piano (doubling melodica), drums, with fixed electronics

three movements

premiere:
Your Bad Self; Ted Hearne, director
The Stone, New York September 2008

additional performances: Your Bad Self
Bang on a Can Marathon; World Financial Center, New York, May 2009
701 Center for Contemporary Art; Columbia, SC, June 2009
Charleston Pourhouse; Charleston, SC, June 2009
Bobo Gallery; Asheville, NC, June 2009

"[H]e will be terribly missed by those of us who were lost with him in the maze of self-consciousness and self-doubt that defined our particular destiny. He illuminated the maze brilliantly, even though he couldn't show us the way out."

- A.O. Scott, eulogizing David Foster Wallace
"The Best Mind of His Generation"
The New York Times,
September 20, 2008

listen:

performed by Miki Cloud, violin; Chris Coletti, trumpet; Ted Hearne, piano; Nathan Koci, accordion; Taylor Levine, electric guitar; Eileen Mack, clarinet; Ron Wiltrout, drums; Matthew Wright, trombone

recording available:
Your Bad Self: Live At The Stone 2008