Scores and recordings available in shop.

• Robot Organic (2007, 10') for pipe organ, bass clarinet, Whirlybot & Heliphon

  Video, recording, program notes, and more - click here.
  

• Honey Flyers (2007, 25') for string quartet + Bot(i)Cello

  Commissioned by the Carlsbad Music Festival for the Calder Quartet. Recording, program notes, and more - click here.

• Heavy Metal (2006, 18') for Balinese Gamelan Gong Kebyar, guitar, violin, bass, lyricon, and robotic instruments

Commissioned by the Boston Museum of Science with the support of NEFA and Meet the Composer.

Premiered on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 at Cahner's Theater in the Boston Museum of Science as part of Music & The Invasion of Technology, performed by Gamelan Galak Tika, Blake Newman, Erik Nugent, Todd Reynolds, and Eddie Whalen.

View: Video of MOS Performance (quicktime stream)
Listen: Recording from MOS Performance (mp3, 22.3 MB)

Listen to Heavy Metal on WBUR radio features!
Here & Now interview with Robin Young, WBUR, Jan. 25 2006
WBUR Morning Edition preview, Jan. 25 2006

Also arranged for robots, gamelan and string orchestra for the Bang on a Can Summer Institute of Music 2006. This arrangement opened the Bang on a Can Marathon at Mass MoCA on July 29, 2006.

Video, recording, program notes, and more - click here.


• Jamu (remixed 2005, 5')  for electronic gamelan and robots, performed by Eric Gunther

• Jamu Remixed w/ Heliphon (mp3, 6.5 MB, 2:37)

  Premiered at Boston Cyberarts Festival Saturday, May 7, 2005, by Eric Gunther and Ensemble Robot. Choreographed by Ashley Salomon, danced by Kristin Marrs, Bethany Leclerc, Katrina Sukola, & Ashley Salomon.
  
  View: Video of Boston Cyberarts Festival Performance (quicktime stream)
  

• Bend (2005, 4:30) for orchestra

            Performed by Brown University Orchestra, conducted by Paul Phillips, May 3, 2005.
  

• Wind Quintet #1 (2005, 2:40)

                 Performed March 22, 2005 by Brown University student wind quintet.

• Mesem (2005, 2:00) string quartet

                 Performed by string players from the Providence Symphony Orchestra, March 1, 2005.

• Khaen Song (2005, 2:30) solo cello
  

• Zap! (2004, 45 minutes) for Van de Graaff Generator, Lyricon, voices, guitar, cello, bass, percussion, piano, robotic xylophone and electronics.

Premiered February 4, 2005 at Boston Museum of Science by Ensemble Robot, Jeff Lieberman (guitar), Blake Newman (bass), Sachi Sato (keyboard), Mei-mi Lin (keyboard), Akili Haynes (percussion, voice), Erik Nugent (Lyricon, voice), Rebecca Zook (cello), Christine Southworth (voice, Van de Graaff controls), Leila Hasan (Van de Graaff controls), Giles Hall (robot controls).


Video, recording, program notes, and more - click here.


• Mars Polar Landing (2003, 7 minutes)  for clarinet, sax, trumpet, drum set, vibraphone, marimba, guitar, and bass
  

• computer simulation (mp3 6.7 MB, 7:00)
  
  
• Play Me (2002, 16 minutes)  for chamber orchestra with electric guitar; also arrangement for wind ensemble
  
• computer simulation (mp3 14.4 MB, 15:47)

  Won American Composers Forum competition for reading by New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble, conducted by Charles Peltz, Jordan Hall, February 27, 2003:

• reading part 1 (mp3 1.9 MB, 2:04)
• reading part 2 (mp3 3.4 MB, 3:47)
• reading part 3 (mp3 7.8 MB, 8:34)
• reading part 4 (mp3 3.7 MB, 4:02)
  
  
  
• Jamu (2002, 10:30)  for small Balinese gamelan, violin, electric guitar, and bass.
  
  • part 1, computer simulation (mp3 5.9 MB)
  • part 2, computer simulation (mp3 3.6 MB)
  
  

• Feed and Fly (2002, 6:19)  for clarinet, electric guitar, cello, bass, piano, drum kit, and Balinese gangsa and reong.
  
  
  • Bang on a Can / Mass MoCA Performance (mp3 6.1 MB, 6:19)
    
    Live recording of performance at Bang on a Can Summer Institute of Music at Mass MoCA, July 25, 2002. Peter Askim (bass), John Benthal (guitar), Greg Beyer (percussion), Eileen Mack (clarinet), Michelle Schumann (piano), Wendy Sutter (cello), and Evan Ziporyn (gamelan)
  
  

• Elf Grass (2002, 7:53)  for clarinet, violin, cello, bass, and piano.
  
  • Alarm WIll Sound Reading (mp3 7.6 MB, 7:43)
    
    Reading by Alarm Will Sound, February 21, 2002 at MIT Killian Hall: Bill Kalinkos (clarinet), Courtney Orlando (piano), Caleb Burhans (violin), Stefan Freund (cello), and Joel Ciaccio (bass) with Alan Pierson conducting.
  
  
• Flying Goldfish Flower (Sekar Ikan Emas Yang Terbang) (2002, 7:17) Gamelan Gong Kebyar.
  
  Performed by Gamelan Galak Tika, recorded by Joel Gordon.
  
  • GGT Recording (mp3 7 MB, 7:17)
    
    
• Wild Warped Wax (2001, 8:34) String quartet in three movements.
  
  • Ethel Reading (mp3 8.2 MB, 8:34)
    
    Reading by Ethel: Todd Reynolds & Mary Rowell (violins), Ralph Ferris (viola), and Dorothy Lawson (cello).

• Violin/Clarinet (2001, 2:09)
  
  Original electronic piece made from sampled violin and clarinet (both performed by CS).
  
  • recording (mp3 1.1 MB, 2:09)
    
    
• HarmonicsonG (2001, 4:30)
  
  Experiment with low G string on a violin, forming a song out of the harmonics. Influenced by Arnold Dreyblatt from whom I had just taken a class when I made this piece.
  
  • recording (mp3 2.2 MB, 4:30)
    
    
• Clapping Music (2001, 4:45)
  
  Loose arrangement of Steve Reich's Clapping Music for voice, violin, clarinet, rubber band, dizi (Chinese flute), and sampled percussion. Instrumental ambient music with a layer of two voices phasing the Indian jati phrase "takita taka ta taka". Written for MIT production of BHOMA, directed by Sudipto Chatterjee.
  
  
• Timor Cotton (2001) for marimba, vibraphone, violin, and electric guitar
  
  Performed January 31, 2001 at Kresge Auditorium, MIT. Laurel Smith (violin), Mark Stewart (electric guitar), Evan Ziporyn (vibes), Danny Tunick (marimba).
  

• Music for Two Gender (2000)
  
  Suite for two gender wayang, balinese metallophones which accompany shadow puppet plays.