Compositions

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All works are electroacoustic (and stereo) unless otherwise indicated.

Raw House (hot, hot, hot) (2024, 10:02)
Duality One (2024, 2:34)
About Time (2024, 2:56)
Variations on a Clocktower Chime (2024, 3:23)
Raw House (hot and clean) (2024, 3:47)
Improvisition no. 3 for guitar and marbles (2022, 5:25)
Improvisition no. 2 for for Lafayette Park in SF (2021, 5:30)
Improvisition no. 1 for jars and lids (2021, 6:17)
Epenthesis (2019, 12:25), with percussionist Ron Pelletierelectroacoustic with percussion
Reset (tabula rasa) (2018, 9:50)electroacoustic tale
Spanish Panoramas (guided improvisations with SoundFisher) (2015, 8:45)postcard/abstract travelog
Walkways of the Hopeful and the Hopeless (2014-15, 7:50)electroacoustic
Emancipation (2013, 7:30)electroacoustic
Post from Rajasthan (2005, revised 2011)audio postcard
Couplings (2012, 6:35)audio postcard
TimePiece (Berlin, September, 2010)sound installation at Ohrenhoch der Geräuschladen, for 8 playback devices with remote controls
Combustible
(2008-2009, 7:05)
electroacoustic composition
Squelch
(2005-06, 9:05)
electroacoustic composition mixing raw and processed field recordings; waveshaping is the
primary processing technique in this piece.
  
Cycle (2004, 7:20)electroacoustic composition mixing orchestral instrument samples, synthesized and processed sounds
Trio (2004)music for choreography by Deborah Slater Dance Theater, co-composed with Erling
Wold
Note from Patzcuaro
(2003, 4:15)
audio postcard based on computer-processed field recordings of Patzcuaro,
Mexico
  
nomen plaid (2003, 7:35)electroacoustic composition  
Things Frankie Heard
(2002, 12:00)
based on computer-generated sound and processed field recordings
of Desolation Wilderness, California
  
Maroc (1998, 19:10)audio postcard based on computer-processed field recordings of Fez,
Tanjer, Marrakesh, and Chefchaouen, Morocco
  
In or Out (1997)based on computer-generated sound and live-processed sound of
Radish Festival, Oaxaca, Mexico and Christmas festival, San Miguel de Allenda,
Mexico
 
Musk (1997)based on computer-generated sound and live-processed sound of souk
in Marrakesh, Morocco
  
To My Son Parker, Asleep in
the Next Room
(1996, 9:35)
setting of poem of same title by the late Bob Kaufman, computer-generated
sound and processed voice
Japanese Postcard (1995, 14:20)audio postcard based on computer-processed field recordings of Tokyo,
Hamamatsu, and Kyoto
  
Three Studies for Pedal Steel
(1995, 9:05)
based on heavily computer-processed recordings of pedal steel guitar  
Survival
of the Fit Enough: The Galapagos Project — by Deborah Slater Dance Theater
(2003)
soundtrack for evening-length dance theater piece, chronicling the
author’s shipwreck and survival in The Galapagos Islands. (electroacoustic
music and audio processing by T. Blum; instrumental music by Erling
Wold
)
– mp3 excerpts –
Ship Wrecked (1:00)
Attacked by Waves (2:00)
The Life Raft (6:00)
A Miraculous Rescue (3:30)
Ship Wrecked (1:00)Attacked by Waves (2:00)The Life Raft (6:00)A Miraculous Rescue (3:30) 
Ship Wrecked (1:00)
Attacked by Waves (2:00)
The Life Raft (6:00)
A Miraculous Rescue (3:30)