Wintering Well Part 1 Winter Begins When The Ice Sings
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Please play on good stereo speakers or put your ear-buds/ear-phones on!! All the sounds you hear are from a single recording I made of gently stepping on a shallow puddle covered with a thin sheet of ice--"zzzip". I wanted...
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Living With My Donkeys :Eric On, Horn
Eric On gave a spectacular performance of Living With My Donkeys at the Florida State University Festival of New Music, January 31, 2026. Such energy, such imagination, such tone! Eric chose to do the Low Version on the...
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Walking With My Ocarinas
These four pieces are based on my experiences of goat packing in the mountains. I always bring my ocarinas for a bit of fun. All the sounds you hear are based on my ocarina playing. For a description (including some neat...
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The Saucey Pack Goat
For notes about this magnificent athlete, Saucey, and the programs I used to compose this, click here. The first movement, In Their Absence, was selected to be part of the Stairwells Installations of the National Association...
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My Sister's Beautiful Heart
In her mid seventies, my sister has decided to learn Korean. I think it was spurred by her love of Korean K-pop music and the desire to understand the beautiful lyrics. This transformed into a thorough fascination with Korean...
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Meadowlark for Warren
This was a breakthrough piece for me, written in 1989 or so. I lived in a junkie old trailer in Evanston, Wyoming, where I was happily no longer working as a counselor for the seriously mentally ill. I was sitting in my...
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Living With My Donkeys :Bill Scharnberg, Horn & Synth Horn
William Scharnberg played a fantastic premeire performance of the entire set at the International Horn Symposium, summer 2024. The recording we got wasn't the greatest, so I'm in the process of remastering that. So some of...
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Charlotte Dreams of Winnowing
A snipe is a bird which has the wonderful ability to soar down through the sky, making the air “winnow” through his tail feathers, producing a wonderful hu-hu-hu-hu-hu. He will make huge loops over and over, supposedly to...
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Take Your Medicine
For notes on how I used the "pop" of the plastic cork of these two bottles to create this music, click here....
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Ear-Bird for Solo Recorder
Ear-Bird is a solo piece for recorder, range suitable for soprano, alto or tenor. Medium difficulty. This can also be played by three recorders, each of whom stands in different places in the audience to simulate birds...
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Living With My Donkeys
Score for horn part
The Living With My Donkeys score is 11 x 14, covered and bound, 39 stiff card stock pages, with music, color photos and story line. I also send a thumb drive, SDHD card and/or CD which has the Donkey Bray part for...
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The Evening Visitor
All of the sounds you here are from a bird call I recorded one evening from my window. I never heard it after that one time. For program notes and then technical details, please click here. The fourth movement, The Sun...
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Our Great Friend Nook
Nook the Magnificent Sheep was a 4-hour old bum lamb when he went to live with Savanah Salisbury, a young 4-H student. For the first 6 months of his life, he lived in town, and became the darling of the neighborhood, going...
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My Sister's Recipes
for Soprano and Alto Choir, Orff Instruments with Electronic Sounds
Written for a young soprano/alto choir with Orff instruments, My Sister's Recipes is a set of three pieces with electronic sounds. The range goes up to high G. Contact me for shipping. This was commissioned by the Radford...
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Living With My Donkeys DONKEY BRAY PART
This is the Donkey Bray part for "Living With My Donkeys, for Horn and Donkey Bray." Contact me if you'd like a copy of the score and accompanying sounds on CD, MP3 or Card. Click here to see how I composed these pieces....
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Elegy for Kathy's Harp
My good friend Kathy was waiting to load her harp at the Eastman School of Music one typically Rochester-windy day, when the harp blew over and suffered incredible breaks. Kathy was naturally distraught, seeing the beautiful...
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Wyoming Wild Life
for Two Pianos and Electronic Sounds
Two piano piece with accompanying electronic music, written for the Hanna, Wyoming Centennial and sponsored by the Wyoming Arts Foundation. Involves inside-piano playing. Contact me for more information. SCROLL DOWN for...
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The Sandhill Crane Suddenly Recalls He’s a Dinosaur
My niece Sophia took these photographs. She is a wildlife conservationist who loves Sand Hill Cranes and had just gotten a new 300-500 camera lens. In this era of the war on our environment, I'm posting this just to...
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Wintering Well
All the sounds you hear are from various pieces of frozen things around the farm, enduring a 30 below winter.... For notes about this set of pieces, click here.
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Original recorded sounds
Repository of all the original sounds I recorded for sounds used in my music....
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Coyote Songs
When I was in the mountains I heard the most incredible coyote song. It echoed across the mountain valleys I was camped above, and off the canyon walls. Surely the coyotes knew what a wonderful place that was to sing. All...
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The Rhubarb Stalks
My sister, pictured here with rhubarb from her garden, tapped out a couple sounds on those rhubarb flower stalks for me. All the sounds you hear in "The Rhubarb Run" are from that initial tapping (which you can hear in the...
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Living With My Donkeys STAND ALONE VERSION
This recently received the International Alliance of Women in Music Honorable Mention for the Pauline Oliveros New Genre Prize. This is the Stand-Alone Version. Click here for the Donkey Bray part for the Horn Version. You...
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Five Little Mountain Mice (1988)
When I am in the mountains, I am very careful to hang my food high and keep a clean camp. Although I’ve never had a bear in my camp (that I know of), I’ve seen my share of them. The animal that most frightens me, however,...
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Shaker Weeds
These are a series of little pieces written back in 1990. At that point I only had an EPS Ensoniq sampler keyboard--no dedicated computer. I sampled my little harmonica, a little drum, a tiny crotales bell, a meadowlark,...
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A Frog's World of Love
I was reading an article about Arnold Lobel and his Toad and Frog books from The New Yorker by Colin Stokes when, strangely at the same time, my friend Mark sent me some sounds of frogs he had heard on a walk in his Iowa...
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Snow Snakes on the Road
All the sounds you hear are from recordings I made of varioius toy cymbals and bells, with just the attacks in most cases. Thinking my pieces were beginning to sound all the same, I decided to do a piece of just rhythms. I...
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