Inspired by the secret society formed by Georges Bataille in the 1930s and subtitled Belle de Jour after Luis Bunüel's cinematic masterpiece, this is a powerful and beautiful work for vibraphone and piano with improvising rhythm section of bass and drums. In three movements that run attacca. 

An enigmatic duo inspired by the paintings of Hilma Af Klint. A vibraphone assistant is needed to negotiate the frequent changes of vibraphone vibrato. May be accompanied by a continuo of improvising live electronics. 

Dedicated to the eccentric French composer Erik Satie and completed the anniversary of his birth on May 17, Anima is a charming Ode to Spring. Subtitled "The Waxing Light" it may be performed as a duo, or accompanied by an improvising rhythm section of bass and drums.  

Another quartet for vibraphone and piano with improvising rhythm section inspired by the imaginary Satanic tome that enables one to “face the light”. Sic Luceat Lux. 

A trial by fire for the classic instrumentation of vibraphone, piano, bass and drums. The title derives from the epic early novel by Elias Canetti. 

The third piece in the suite A Brief History of Witchcraft, Casting The Runes features vibraphone, piano with improvising rhythm section of bass and drums. A magic spell. 

A magic ritual for solo violin with optional improvised percussion. Can be performed with a drum set player or as a solo piece. In four movements. 

A powerful companion piece to Auto-Da-Fé featuring the same classic instrumentation of vibraphone and piano with improvising rhythm section of bass and drums. A delirious and hypnotic descent into the maelstrom! 

An intense virtuoso showpiece for amplified cello with improvising rhythm section of bass and drums. 

Ravings and Wanderings. A two-movement work for piano with improvising rhythm section inspired by the prose poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé. 

A mysterious, spooky piece inspired by the slow central movement of Beethoven's infamous "Ghost" Trio, op. 70. Meant as a middle movement between my other piano trios The Aristos and Hexentarot, or as a stand alone piece accompanied by an improvising drummer.  

Dionysian Dithyrambs for violin, cello, and piano with improvising rhythm section of bass and drums. “A lightning bolt. Dionysius becomes visible in emerald beauty.”—Friedrich Nietzsche  

A fiery tour-de-force for two trombones with improvised rhythm section! 

A wild piece for piano inspired by the radical 19th century French poet Arthur Rimbaud, whose journey to become a true visionary through "total derangement of the senses" led him to create some of the most personal and intense literature in human history.  

A magical piece in two movements inspired by Holderlin's early prose poem In Lieblicher Blaue scored for piano with improvising rhythm section of bass and drums. 

A satanic ballad in two movements for vibes, piano and improvising rhythm section. "It was the radiance of an opium dream—an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the phantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos."—Edgar Allen Poe, Ligeia 

“Among the thousands of stones hurrying to earth gaping, I took a stone of chance, a fruit of iron and underground gum. She is now on my table. I touch with my fingertips, like an electric shock to the periphery of a heart. A slice of solid imperturbability, a mouth of a skull. The eye could not close its eyelids on the veins of metal. There are plants and stories inside.”—Tristan Tzara 

A ballad for piano and improvising rhythm section of bass and drums inspired by the classic pre-surrealist masterpiece by Isidore-Lucien Ducasse (Comte de Lautréamont). "God grant that the listener, emboldened and having become at present as fierce as what he is hearing, find, without loss of bearings, his way, his wild and treacherous passage through the desolate swamps of these sombre, poison-soaked passages." 

A wild piece in three movements for vibraphone and rhythm section inspired by the cut-up masterpiece by William Burroughs. 

The Ouroboros is an ancient hermetic motif depicting a serpent eating its own tail symbolizing cyclicality, recreation, rebirth and infinity. Here two celli (yin and yang) work together to build a torrent of intensity. The One is the All!  

A dynamic and evocative trio for vibraphone with improvising rhythm section of bass and drums inspired by Milton's later masterwork. In three movements. 

Inspired by the paintings of Agnes Martin, this meditative miniature is part of a recent body of work that pairs exactly written material with improvisers who illustrate and elaborate upon it. Featuring a constantly changing array of articulations, dynamics and tone colors, the harp is accompanied by an improvised continuo of live electronics and/or non-pitched percussion. 

The third in a suite of five pieces inspired by characters from the Commedia dell'arte. “He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.” —Rafael Sabatini  

A transformative work for solo cello with improvising drum set. 

A dynamic quintet expanding the classic instrumentation of piano, vibes, bass and drums with classical percussion.  

Inspired by the surrealist masterpiece by Luis Bunuel, this is an expansive piece for solo vibraphone accompanied by an improvising rhythm section of bass and drums. In four movements, played attacca. 

A surrealistic fantasy inspired by the paintings of Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington 

A set of three varied miniatures for piano with an improvising rhythm section of bass and drums: Tender Buttons (for Gertrude Stein); Nightwood (for Djuna Barnes); Epode (for H.D.)