Works

Electric Dreams A historic opera 2015 70 minutes Soloists: 2 sopranos, mezzo soprano, tenor, bass, actor and French horn.
Ensemble: flute, saxophone, bass clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, 2 keyboardists (synthesizers and sampler), midi drum kit, 2 violins, viola, cello and double bass.

Songs about words and about the pleasure of misery 2012 20 minutes Five songs for soprano and piano For Juliet Fraser and Mark Knoop

1. Sad Lyric Happy Music
2. Symptoms of Depression
3. Misery Thesaurus
4. He, She and Doxy
5. Woman Waits, Seething, Blooming

Instrumental Music 2011 25 minutes For eight voices

1. Micro Hetero Poly
2. Power Chord
3. Drum Vocabulary
4. Arpeggio Interlude After Fugazi
5. Scat Pack

You Close Your Eyes Again 2004 15 minutes For female voice, clarinet, electric guitar, percussion & piano.

Lecture About Sad Music and Happy Dance 2017 1 hour For violinist and dancer In collaboration with Shila Anaraki and Aisha Orazbayeva

Lecture about Listening to Music 2017 32 minutes For lecturer, soprano/tenor saxophone and synthesiser/samples

Lecture about Bad Music 2015 40 minutes For lecturer, clarinet, electric guitar, synthesiser and violin

A to Zzz 2011 1 hour For four performers with light design Collaboration with Shila Anaraki

When is a Door Not a Door? 2008 20 minutes For 4 performers.

Letter Pieces 2007+ Open-score pieces for performer (e.g. dancer, live-artist, actor) and musician (vocal or any instrument). Read more about Letter Pieces and see more performances at the Letter Pieces blog page.

Glücklich Glücklich Freude Freude 2019 20 minutes For keyboards and orchestra

Music and Actions for strings, keyboard and conductor 2015 11 minutes For conductor, keyboard and string orchestra

Listening Styles 2013 15 minutes For orchestra with drum kit

Popular Contexts, Volume 3: The Music of Theatre Making 2011 40 minutes For conductor, flute, oboe, bass clarinet, drum-kit (with glockenspiel), guitar, mandolin, violin, viola, cello, double bass and sampler keyboard

1. Pentatone Alphabet March
2. The Beautiful Game
3. Weird Tour Guide
4. Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing
5. Kitchen interlude
6. Five Monuments for Our TIme

Avant Muzak 2010 16 minutes For flute, soprano saxophone, drum kit, electric guitar, harp, violin, cello and sampler (also arranged for soprano saxophone, clarinet, drum kit, electric organ and sampler, violin, cello and double bass)

1. Slow, quite slow, quite fast and fast; with footsteps
2. Starting and stopping; with girl poem
3. Loud and Soft; with construction
4. Scanning
5. Cultural Location

Joy Time Ride for Ives 2009 16 minutes For flute, oboe, bass clarinet, bassoon, drum-kit, electric organ, 2 violins, cello and double bass.

Five Monuments for Our Time 2008 7 minutes For conductor, 8+ instruments, and drum kit For Gijs Kramers

The Last Decade of Human Contribution 2021 14 minutes For clarinet and accordion (with drum machine) For Heather Roche and Eva Zöllner

Grand Epic Fanfare 2020 18 minutes For flute and piano For Manuel Zurria and Stephane Ginsburgh

Weird Audio Guide 2011, arranged 2020 For accordion, synthesiser (with samples) and drum-kit (arrangement of the third movement of Popular Contexts, Volume 3)

Graveyard Slot (with guest appearance) 2019 20 minutes Quartet for alto saxophone, electric guitar, drum kit (with MIDI pads) and synthesiser (with samples) For Ensemble Nikel

Popular Contexts, Volume 10: Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony in context 2016 15 minutes For The Peärls Before Swïne Experience Beethoven cycle

1. Beginning, middle, end
2. Seaside Construction
3. Situation Comedy
4. Ode to Joy

Popular Contexts, Volume 7: Public domain music 2014 25 minutes For clarinet, electric guitar, synthesizer and sampler, drum-kit and cello.

1. International Transport Chimes Reggae
2. Jazz in the Park
3. Canteen Funk
4. Muzak in the Shopping Mall

The Major Sevenths Medley 2014 13 minutes For 4 electric guitars

Popular Contexts, Volume 6 2013 23 minutes Trio for vibraphone, drum-kit and sampler keyboard

1. Saxophone Sequences
2. Basic Bass Patterns
3. Air Drums
4. Chromatic Crowds

Logic Rock 2013 7 minutes For guitar and drum kit For Toon Callier and Jeroen Stevens

Popular Contexts, Volume 5: Language command 2013 24 minutes Quartet for speaker, soprano voice, tenor saxophone and synthesizer/sampler

1. Training
2. Stalling
3. Controlling
4. Directing
5. Instructing
6. Stopping

More Logic Rock 2012 (rev. 2015) 16 minutes Duo for midi guitar and drum kit

Theme Street Parade 2009 18 minutes For string quartet.

Earth Breeze Smoke 2008 11 minutes For 2 recorders.

Fast Medium Swing 2008 10 minutes For solo piano, 3 instruments and sampler.

Line and Length 2007 9 minutes For soprano saxophone, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet & bassoon.

Slow Flipping Harmony 2006 8 minutes For any four melodic instruments and one auxiliary player.

Slow Hand Clap 2006 7 minutes For two percussionists

Free Square Jazz 2005 10 minutes For soprano/tenor recorder, electric guitar, double bass and drum kit.

5 Pieces for Clarinet & Guitar 1998, revised 2002 8 minutes For clarinet and guitar.

Deirdre's Threat 1999-2000 12 minutes For violin and piano.

Explorations in polytonality and other musical wonders 2021 21 minutes For solo piano For Mark Knoop

1. Parlour Nancarrow
2. Ternary (homophony at the minor 6th, Hexatonic cycle at the major 6th)
3. Larghetto with modal mixture
4. Difference, repetition and hemiola
5. Interlude
6. Classic chord progression with Neapolitan, doubled at the minor 2nd
7. Variations in octaves

Freedom for Notes and Men 2018 22 minutes For speaking accordionist Written for Ghenadie Rotari

Popular Contexts, Volume 8: five soundscapes for a contemporary percussionist 2015 25 For midi pads and assorted acoustic instruments Written for Håkon Stene

1. Drummin’ in the Rain
2. Comfortably Glock
3. Session Drummer
4. Exotic tourism in recorded sound history
5. Royalty Free

Left, Right, Up, Down, Pogo 2013 7 minutes For solo flute For Manuel Zurria

Popular Contexts, Volume 2 2010 25 minutes For piano, sampler, voice and physical actions (one person) For Stephane Ginsburgh

1. Weird Uncle
2. See My Logic
3. Racing Cars Have Feelings Too
4. Stand Up for Skateparks

Hi hat and Me 2010 5 minutes For solo percussionist (voice and hi-hat). For Claire Edwardes

Popular Contexts 2010 30 minutes For piano and sampler. For Mark Knoop

1. Free Sound
2. Progressive Clock, Alarm Rock
3. Partial Pastoral Lobotomy
4. Resonant Coupling
5. Weird Twin
6. Discharge

Serious and Sincere Sentiments About Something 1999 8 minutes For guitar. For Geoffrey Morris

A Documentary Saga of the OULIPO 2006-07 22 minutes Video work by Rees Archibald, Andrew Infanti & Matthew Shlomowitz.

Train Travel 2006 20 minutes For clarinet, trombone, percussion, violin, viola & video. Video: Rees Archibald

Six Aspects of the Body in Image and Sound 2004 19 minutes For clarinet, piano, violin, viola, cello and video. Video: Rees Archibald