Recent Music by Mara Helmuth

Mara Helmuth and Alan Bern performing The Man and the Moon at ICMC in Belfast, 2008.

Sound Excerpts

The Man and the Moon by Bern/Helmuth (excerpt of the work from Sound Collaborations on Centaur Records, CRC 2903)

Smoke by Helmuth/VanMatre for saxophones and computer (excerpt, from Sound Collaborations on Centaur Records, CRC 2903)

No. 7 for Gyil and Computer (excerpt, from Sound Collaborations on Centaur Records, CRC 2903) by Helmuth/Otte, performed by Allen Otte.

Implements of Actuation (excerpt, from the CD of the same name on EMF’s cdemusic website) by Helmuth/Otte, performed by Allen Otte.

Loonspace (excerpt, from EMF’s cdemusic website), performed by Allen Otte.

Complete Pieces

Where is My Voice? for stereo audio. text: Steve Sunderland. 6:00. 2008.

Butterfly Within for flute and stereo audio. performed by Bradley Garner. 6:00. 2006.

Loonspace for percussion trio and stereo audio. performed by Percussion Group Cincinnati. 2001.

Mellipse for stereo audio. 1989.

Recordings
Sound Collaborations, a compact disk of collaborations with Alan Bern, Ming Ke, Allen Otte, Rick VanMatre and Anna VanMatre. 2007. Centaur Records, v. 36 of Consortium to

Distribute Computer Music CRC 2903.

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

Improvisation with Qin, Percussion and Computer No. 3, 2007. 10 min.

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 painting installation 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
Meeting the Free Dreamer (revision) 2008 for piano and computer. 9 min.

Light Descends Into Your Heart, 2008 version for piano and computer, 5 minutes.

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
Hidden Mountain. 2007-. Interactive installation at the SinoNordic Arts Space in Beijing.

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

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

Multimedia Works
Lifting the Mask for video.

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
Where is My Voice? 2008. 6 min.

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
String Paths, graphic score for 1-6 percussionists. 2007.

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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