Tiny Cheesehead Music

(2005-2006), for various ensembles and durations.

Tiny Cheesehead Music is a series of pieces written for the New York Miniaturist Ensemble, all conforming to their requirement that pieces use no more than 100 notes.

Whispers

(2005), for flute, violin and cello.

Tight dissonances, imitation, and sound clouds.

[score] PDF score (93 KB).

Tiny Cheesehead Music

(2005), for vibraphone, marimba, violin, and viola.

In three movements, a slow 12-tone canon by retrograde inversion surrounded by faster movements.

[score] PDF score (101 KB).

Tiny Cheesehead Music, Episode II

(2005), for flute, violin, and viola.

Minimalist pattern-shifting.

[score] PDF score (116 KB).

[sound] MP3 recording (339 KB).

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Shadow of the Tiny Cheesehead Music

(2006), for flute, cowbell, and two violins.

Tiny Cheesehead Music, now with multiphonics, glissandi, and more cowbell!

[score] PDF score (110 KB).

Tinier Cheesehead Music

(2006), for vibraphone, violin, and cello.

Another 12-tone canon by retrograde inversion.

Curse of the Tiny Cheesehead Music

(2006), for clarinet, triangle, violin, and cello.

Soft, slow, and very dissonant.

[score] PDF score (103 KB).

Revenge of the Tiny Cheesehead Music

(2006), for solo violin.

[score] PDF score (99 KB).

Beneath the Planet of the Tiny Cheesehead Music

(2006), for violin and cello.

Another canon by retrograde inversion, this time with tempo shifts.

Tiny Cheesehead Haiku

(2006), for soprano and violin.

Tiny haiku texts by Kevin Ducey.

Return of the Son of Tiny Cheesehead Music

(2006), for string quartet.

[score] PDF score (66 KB).

Mysteries of the Tiny Cheesehead Music

(2007), for percussion (vibraphone and crotales, one performer).

Attack of the Tiny Cheesehead Music

(2007), for solo flute.

Tiny Cheesehead Music Under the Stars

(2008), for piano, violin, viola, and cello.

Viola solo with ethereal harmonics and slow shifts in harmony.

Lux Aeterna

(2008), soprano voice and piano.

Setting of the Latin phrase for the Chicago Miniaturist Ensemble's Light and Dark concert.

Tiny Cheesehead Spam

(2009), for voice, clarinet, alto sax, drumset, violin, and cello.

Setting of actual e-mail spam text for ThingNY's first SPAM mass e-mail commission.

Tiny Cheesehead Fanfare

(2010), for trumpet, horn, and trombone.

Canon at the unison, with a brief interruption, for *a very small consortium*.

Tiny Cheesehead Cynicism

(2011), for soprano voice, bass clarinet, violin, and optional alto sax.

Another actual spam e-mail text setting, for ThingNY's SPAM v2.0.

Tiny Cheesehead Fanfare the Second

(2011), for trumpet, horn, and trombone.

Prolation canon at the fifth and ninth, for *a very small consortium*.

True Stories of Tiny Cheesehead Music

(2012), for clarinet, violin, viola, and cello.

Shifting harmonies slipping out of sync, for *a very small consortium*.

Nobody Expects the Tiny Cheesehead Music

(2012), for two alto saxophones.

Two part canon where follower and leader swap roles, with a brief interruption. For *a very small consortium*.

Tiny Cheesehead Assemblage

(2012), for soprano voice, bass clarinet, violin, and optional alto sax.

Loops that assemble instead of disintegrating, for ThingNY's SPAM v3.0

Tiny Cheesehead Canon on a Ground

(2013), for open instrumentation.

A melody that can be played against itself delayed and/or upside-down and backwards.

[score] PDF score (1.57 MB).

[sound] MP3 recording (7.83 MB).

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Tiny Cheesehead Gathering

(2013), for flute, clarinet, toy piano, violin, and bass.

Melody for toy piano with simultaneous cadenza for violin.

Mac and Tiny Cheesehead Music

(2014), for saxophone quartet.

Imitative patterns and shifting pitches, for *a very small consortium*.