Compositions
Orchestra
To take the edge off (2024) • 12 minutes
Packingtown sketches (2023) • 9 minutes
Tranquillo/Agitato (Kodaly/Nichols) (2023) • 8 minutes
1. Tranquillo (Zoltan Kodaly, orch. Aaron Nichols)
2. Agitato
Symphonyn’t (2022) • 38 minutes
A Modal Symphony (2021) - 30 minutes
What is Not a Dream by Day (2020) - 46 minutes
Large Ensemble
Passacaglia: Why Did the Chicken (2025)
chamber orchestra/sinfonietta • 10 minutes
Overstimulations (2023)
string quintet/percussion/live electronics • 17 minutes
Nachtmusik V: online edition (2022)
flute/clarinet/trumpet/trombone/percussion/violin/viola/cello • 10 minutes
Is it hot in here (2022)
free ensemble/graphic score • 6 minutes
As the city sleeps (2021)
flute/oboe/horn/trumpet/percussion/piano/2 violins/viola/cello • 12 minutes
No Strangers to Love (2021)
piano/percussion/bass guitar (doubling upright)/string sextet • 9 minutes
Don’t get blue! Get angry! (2019)
chamber orchestra • 6 minutes
A troubled day’s night (2019)
oboe/trumpet/trombone/percussion/violin/viola/cello/bass • 9 minutes
Chamber
And Still the Steeples Hum (2025)
clarinet, violin, piano – for unheard-of ensemble • 10 minutes
Les Ondines de la Crue Éclair (2025)
harp/cello • 10 minutes
Things Base and Vile (2025)
baroque violin/bass viol • 6 minutes
Mesovortex (2024)
saxophone quartet – for PRISM quartet • 7-8 minutes
Sisyphean Dances (2023)
clarinet/horn/violin/cello/percussion • 8-9 minutes
Murmeltier-Variationen (2023)
clarinet/contrabass/piano • 10 minutes
That Bumpy Road to Love (2023)
piano quintet • 17 minutes
Suite Tooth (2023)
guitar duo • 18 minutes
Flashing Before your Eyes (2022)
violin/2 cellos/contrabass • 3 minutes
Where Everything is Easy (2022)
horn+voice, bassoon, cello, and piano • 6-7 minutes
On a scale of 1-10… (2022)
electric guitar and cello • 5 minutes
Vocalise: out on the side of the hill (2021)
soprano/oboe/violin/cello • 6-7 minutes
(Com)pulse (2021)
small jazz ensemble • 6 minutes
Black and Blue (2020)
string quartet • 6 minutes
The End of Light (2020)
2 trumpets/2 horns/2 trombones/tuba/percussion • 7 minutes
Solitudine 19’ (2020)
wind quintet • 13 minutes
Wonderful Town (2020)
string quartet • 19 minutes
Seven Ages (2019)
2 trumpets/trombone/bass trombone • 9 minutes
Choir/Vocal
It’s Raining 2 (2024)
6 part choir (or soloists) • 5 minutes
“It Comes Unadorned” (2024)
choir and orchestra • 5 minutes
Night (2022)
soprano/low choir/harp • 12 minutes
Mass (2021)
choir and orchestra • 1 hour
Solo
Floortomfoolery (2025)
percussion (drum set) • 6 minutes
Blind Rain (2025)
cello + live electronics • 9 minutes
Toccata and Fugue in D major (2024)
organ • 10 minutes
Echo Chamber no. 1 (2023)
cello + live electronics • 8-10 minutes
Elegy (2022)
for piano inside • 7 minutes
Isola (2021)
for solo piano • 3-4 minutes
Electronics/Multimedia/occasional techno
Ill-Used (2025)
audio + video • 10’18”
Disconcerted, Broken-Hearted (2025)
audio + video • 10’18”
Technocrat (2025) • 53’
1. upandcomer
2. gridlock
3. overlord
4. cycles
5. streetlights
6. klavierhaus
7. spin
8. surge
9. always say ok
Pseudacris Crossing (2024) • 5’04”
Hey-Ya (2024) • 5’08”
I Wanna Run (2024) • 9’23”
F1lmf00t\\renokceRRR (2024) • 3’06”
Aufzugmusik (2023) • 3’19”
A hand in a reflection pool (2023) • 6’12”
8 Bits (2022) • 9’
Alprazolam (2022) • 10’
Boats against the current (2021) • 2’15”
Film Score
Don’t buy Sex in Ohio by Reno Heyward, Elijah Morton, and Dee Pegues (2024)
fixed media • 13’
Tunnel Vision by Sophie Leah (2023)
piano and violin • 2’30”
Wrong Side of the Bed by Elijah Morton (2023)
2 clarinets/trumpet/trombone/2 percussion/piano/strings • 4’25”
Ballet Mécanique by Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy (1924, score 2023)
fixed media • 16’
Metropolis by Fritz Lang (1927, score 2022)
for orchestra • 2h 27’
Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein (1925, score 2021)
for orchestra • 1h 10’
Man with a Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov (1929, score 2020, rev. 2021-2023)
for orchestra • 1h 7’
Recordings
“It Comes Unadorned”
Echo Chamber no. 1
Ill-Used
Pseudacris Crossing
Hey-Ya
A hand in a reflection pool
Don’t Buy Sex in Ohio (excerpts)
Aufzugmusik
To Take the Edge Off
Tranquillo/Agitato
Overstimulations mvt. 3 - Surge
Nachtmusik V: online edition
As the city sleeps
Mesovortex
Where everything is easy
Dana Jessen, bassoon
Kyra Sims, horn/voice
Chris Wild, cello
Mabel Kwan, piano
On a scale of 1-10…
Daniel Lippel, electric guitar
Aaron Nichols, cello
Black and Blue
And Still the Steeples Hum
Recorded by Unheard-of Ensemble