Recent Music by Mara Helmuth

Recordings
Meeting the Free Dreamer appears on Open Space CD 16, released in 2004.
Implements of Actuation, a compact disc of collaborations with percussionist-composer Allen Otte (2001), is available from the Electronic Music Foundation at CDeMUSIC or EMF Media.

Interactive Computer Works

Mara Helmuth performing on qin at Town Hall, Cincinnati, Dec. 2005. photo by Keith Wahle.
Improvisation with Qin, for qin and computer. 2005. 10 min. download qt movie (6.1MB)

The Man and the Moon for accordion and computer. with Alan Bern. 2004. 15 min.

Smoke for tenor and soprano saxophones and computer with Rick Van Matre, and graphite paintings by Anna VanMatre. 2004. 16 min.

Inchoate Energies for piano and electronics. 2004. 7 min.

China Prism for dancer and interactive light sensor installation. 2004. variable duration.

Instruments + Computer Works
Butterfly Within for flute and computer. 2006. 5 min.

Primary Materials for percussion trio and computer. 2006. 10 min.

No. 7 for Gyil and Computer. with Allen Otte. 2004. 9 min.

The Edge of Noise for NeXT (soprano, flute, percussion, electric guitar, piano, violin, cello, computer). 2004. 8 min.

Mountain Wind for pipa solo, flute, alto flute, bassoon, violin, 2 cellos, computer. 2003. 9 min.

Emei Shan Resonance for qin and computer. 2003. 8 min.

Origins of a Fantastic Dream for orchestra and computer. 2002. 10 min.

Loonspace. 2000 Percussion and tape. 13 min.
Mellipse 2. with Allen Otte. 1999 Percussion and tape
Implements of Actuation. with Allen Otte. 1998 Electric mbira, bicycle wheels and tape. 21 min.
Move!. 1996. Snare drum and tape. 4 min. 1998 version with Allen Otte. 7 min.
Evolutions. 1994. 8 instruments and NeXT ISPW. 25 min.

Installations
Staircase of Light. 2003. Light sensitive installation in the Sino-Nordic Performance Arts Space, Beijing.

Sound Colors. 1995, 1997. Audience Interactive Installation for NeXTstation 040 and SGI.

Multimedia Works
Emei Shan Resonance for qin, computer and video. 2003. 8 min.

Mountain Wind for pipa solo, 5 instruments and video. 2004. 8 min.

Device & Devices with Kimberly Burleigh. 2002. video.

(e) (with Mary Beth Haggerty). 1995. animation and computer music

Tape Works
bugs and ice: a Question of Focus. 2002. 6 min.
Abandoned Lake in Maine. 1997. 12 min.
Ah!. 1995. voice and percussion. 1 min.
Chimeplay. 1994. algorithms and sampled sounds for my wedding. 5 min.
Meeting the Free Dreamer. 1992. algorithmic piano sounds. 10 min.
Dragon of the Nebula. 1991. granular synthesis composition. 9 min.
Mellipse. 1989, rev.1995. moving elliptical filters and gentle sound masses. 8 min.

Theater Works
Clotho (with Allen Otte). 2000. music for monodrama for soprano, percussion and computer based on the life of Camille Claudel

Instrumental Works
Light Descends into your Heart. 1997. piano. 3 min.
Songs for Mezzo, Cello and Percussion. 1990. 12 min.
Two Meditations. 1990. alto fl., clar., bn., 2 vn., pno. 6 min.

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