"defies category" - The Wall Street Journal
BOOMERANG OF BLACK FLUORESCENCE;
Music I Meant to Write as a Teen
Released 11/4/24 -- vocal, chamber, electronic
instrumentation
voice, electronics, piccolo, flute, clarinet, bassoon,
violin, viola, violoncello
1 — The Sweetbaum Trap
2 — Water in Our Eyes
3 — Encounters with Strangers
4 — Hinged on 10th Time Realizations
5 — Space that’s Inside the Finger
6 — 542 Rooms; Universal Sound Array Banner
7 — Bunny! Leave JanuaryAlone; He’s Trying to Meditate
8 — Mjeto Si, Mjato Ma
9 — Dance of the Frozen Animals
10 — In Bed Watching Finches In the Snow
11 — The Wooden Child
12 — Recovery Lullaby
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GRAMMY-winning album
Yo-Yo Ma + SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE'S
Sing Me Home
2017 — chamber work, 3:27-min
commission by Silk Road Ensemble
Sing Me Home:
"Best World Music Album" (track 5)
trad. Macedonian; vocal arr: Small
instrumental arr: Kyle Sanna
performed by
Silk Road Ensemble + Black Sea Hotel
instrumentation
Balkan vocal trio, sheng, violin, viola, violoncello
"The Forest is Shaking and Swaying; And we are Still"
2015 — chamber work, 6:05-min
trad. Bulgarian“Vetar Vee” (Shopluk region)
arr. Small; add. arr. + comp: Rima Fand
instrumentation
Balkan vocal trio, chorus, string quartet
premiered St. Ann's Warehouse + National Sawdust
featured recording - Secondary Dominance's mvt. 8
w/ Black Sea Hotel + members from The Knights
KRONOS QUARTET
w/ BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS
ACME QUARTET + BLACK SEA HOTEL
SECONDARY DOMINANCE
album turned staged work, turned music videos, turned full-album-length music video, turned feature film
feature film - COMING Spring 2025
record - Released 11/24/24 (written 2016)
music videos - 2019
staged performance - 2017
HERE Arts Center’s PROTOTYPE Festival
instrumentation + elements: piccolo, flute, sheng, violin, viola, violoncello, electronic backtrack, 3 dancers 1 mom, 1 dad, film projection
1 — Are You The Sun?
2 — The Sitter
3 — Am I Free?
6 — Planet to Planet
7 — Moma Jeste
8 — The Forest Shakes + Sways
9 — Do You Sleep Inside?
10 — Kitty Cats + Horses
11 — A Dragon Loves Me
12 — In the Night Room
— Wall Street Journal
“…delicate chamber-music juxtaposed with blaring electronica and Balkan folk singing...
anguished harmonic friction... defies category...has a stronger erotic charge than punk rock.”
“… a perfect synthesis of opera and media..."
— The Theater Times
TABLEAU VIVANT OF
THE DELIRIUM CONSTRUCTIONS
ft. SHARA NOVA + BROOKLYN RIDER
— The New York Times
“The singers' voices resounded thrillingly... seems like a miracle"
...an energizing newness... a humble and humbling view of humanity that feels authentic..
poetic... what you take away from the Tableau is a kind of peace...”
— The Washington Post
spring 2011 — 9-mvt. living picture, 55-min
instrumentation + elements
120-participant chorus /
performer-dancer-collective
string quartet, Balkan vocal quartet, 1 soprano,
1 mezzo soprano, 2 live wedding ceremonies
(legal matrimony)
mvt. 1 — At Rest
mvt. 2 — We Wake
mvt. 3 — We Sing
mvt. 4 — We Dance
mvt. 5 — We Commune
mvt. 6 — We Rest
mvt. 7 — We Wake
mvt. 8 — We Breathe
mvt. 9 — We Depart
