Project 440

  • Polina Nazaykinskaya

    Each piece of music that I write comes from the depth of my heart, from the inner ocean of emotions and possibilities that are carried by waves of memories. Just as a sculptor frees... Jun 15, 2010

    Polina Nazaykinskaya
  • Jonathan Russell

    The two pieces here—ELEVEN and Sextet —embody many of my current musical interests. Both use minimalist and vernacular materials as starting points, but develop them into complex, d... Jun 15, 2010

    Jonathan Russell
  • Daniel Wohl

    Scored for bass clarinet, piano, cello, percussion and electronics, the initial concept for +ou- (pronounced "plus ou moins") was to compose music that would be heard through a veil... Jun 15, 2010

    Daniel Wohl
  • David Wolff

    Meant to evoke the process by which changes in an organism’s genetic information are induced experimentally or by environmental stresses, mutagenesis is a dance based on an ever-chan... Jun 15, 2010

    David Wolff
  • Laura Andel

    For the last few years, I have been working on compositions that focus on the different degrees of nearness between gamelan and non-gamelan instruments. In my interest to explore th... Jun 15, 2010

    Laura Andel
  • Jonathan Pieslak

    I have often been fascinated and disturbed by my inability to turn away from grotesque images. Media coverage and the Internet expose us, first hand, to intensely graphic images of ... Jun 15, 2010

    Jonathan Pieslak
  • John Orfe

    Oyster was commissioned by the School of Music and School of Dance at Ohio University with funds from Arts for Ohio. It received its premiere in June, 2008; John Climer conducted th... Jun 15, 2010

    John Orfe
  • Gabriella Smith

    get a lot of my inspiration from the forms, structures, and energies in the natural world, and I also like math, which can describe these forms, designs, and energies so elegantly a... Jun 15, 2010

    Gabriella Smith
  • Ethan Wickman

    Angles of Repose draws its title from the Wallace Stegner novel of that name about an itinerant mining engineer and his family as they struggle to prosper in the American West. In S... Jun 15, 2010

    Ethan Wickman
  • David Moore

    The two pieces included here, Put Your Weight Into It and And Then It Rained, were written with a similar set of guiding principals. As with the majority of my output for the last f... Jun 15, 2010

    David Moore