CATALOGUE OF WORKS and selected performances 1979-2017
TREE PIECES:
ambient bird - mosswood (2023) with sfSOUND and the bird ensemble
January 8, 2023 7:00pm Mosswood Sound Series Oakland, CA
ambient bird - live oak (2022) with sfSOUND and the bird ensemble
September 22, 2022 6:30-7:15pm Live Oak Park
birds without borders 3 (2021) (international ensemble online)
August 14, 2021 Center For New Music San Francisco
birds wthout borders 2 (2021) (international ensemble online)
HNU Alumni, Faculty and Friends Concert 2021 - February 28,2021
ambient bird online: Birds Without Borders (2020) (international ensemble)
July 17, 2020 12pm (PDT) - Network Music Festival -UK
Tree Piece #67 'bird haiku' (2020)
February 8, 2020 HNU Faculty and Friends Concert - studio theatre
Tree Pieces: new and old (2019)-with Lulu,Reid,Hutchinson, Josephson,Heglin
June 21, 2019 5-9pm Chapel of the Chimes Oakland, CA
Ambient Bird 433 (2019) for 3 open ensembles and African Grey Parrot
Sunday April 14, 2019 7-8pm Frank the forum at Frank Ogawa Plaza Oakland, CA
Lulu Variations 5 (2018) with the Mills Performing Group (Cowart)
November 17, 2018, Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College
Ambient Bird 433 (2018) for 3 open ensembles and African Grey Parrot
November 10, 2018 7-8pm the forum at Frank Ogawa Plaza (-rescheduled due to fire)
Tree Piece #34 "frog ostinato" / UC Davis Nov 19, 2018 performed by Kyle Bruckmann oboe, Christopher Froh percussion
Tree Piece #66 "bird 433" (2018) 5-9pm with Lulu, Reid, Hutchinson, Josephson,Heglin
June 21, 2018 5-9pm Chapel of the Chimes Oakland, CA
Tree Piece #65 "lulu variations 4" (2017) with Lulu, Reid, Josephson, Heglin
November 19, 2017 7:30pm CNMAT Berkeley, CA
Tree Piece #65 "lulu variations 3" (2017) with Mills Contemporary Performance Ensemble
November 29,2017 Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College
New Tree/Bird Pieces (2017) with Lulu, Reid, Hutchinson, Josephson, Heglin
June 21, 2017 Chapel of the Chimes Festival (Garden of Memory) Oakland, CA
Nothing Piece (2017) (Lulu, Reid, Winant, Buchla -virtual) with Peter Apfelbaum (live)
April 23, 2017 4:30pm Don Buchla Memorial Concert - Gray Area Foundation, San Francisco
Tree Piece #55 lulu Variations 2 (2016) with Lulu, Reid, Heglin
March 18, 2016 Turquoise Grotto, music for birdwatching (Samas), San Francisco
Tree Piece #55 "lulu variations 1 & 2" (2016) with bird pieces
April 21, 2016 5-9pm Chapel of the Chimes Festival (Garden of Memory) Oakland, CA
Tree Piece #17 "nothing is more real than nothing"(1991) for two or more instruments
June 21, 2016 Chapel of the Chimes Festival (Garden of Memory) Oakland, CA
FROGPOND 433/ Tree Piece #56 (2015) for African Grey Parrot and Violin
May 30, 2015 - 17 sonic haiku (4'33" 0r less) by 17 composers - Berkeley Arts Festival (benefit for frogs)
Tree Piece #55 "lulu variations" (2008-2014) for African Grey Parrot, Buchla Lightning, violin, & trumpet (Lulu,Reid, Dambly)
March 1,2014 Other Minds Festival, the Jazz Center, San Francisco / Djerassi Institute (2-24-14)
June 3, 2013 / February 12, 2012 the Ivy Room Berkeley
October 2, 2010 Pixilerations Festival Brown University
September 25, 2010 Thingamajigs Festival, Vessel Gallery
October 12, 2008 On The Nature Of Nature, Oakland Museum (with photographs of A.Tingley)
Tree Piece #58 "lu-shoo fragments" (2010-12) with African Grey Parrot, Buchla Lightning, violin
April 10, 2011 Trinpin at Stanford-DIY Tailgate Demonstration/Performance, White Plaza, Stanford University
Tree Piece #52 "19 variations on 19 variations (2003-05) for trumpet, trombone & tuba
Commissioned by Brassiosaurus (Djll,Heglin,Tomita)
March 4, 2003 Trinity Chapel Berkeley, CA
August 10, 2005, Atelier Niente Berkeley, CA
Tree Piece #51 "lightning dog variation" (2004) for violin, buchla lightning and dogs (Reid, dogs:Twinkie, Hazelle)
January 14, 2004 Live Oak Park Berkeley
Tree Piece #50 "19 variations" (2001) for violin and percussion (Reid, Winant, A.Tingley)
March 24, 2001, ODC Theatre & Living Music Present: Spring New Music Series, San Francisco
Tree Piece #46 "...sound of water" (1998) violin and percussion (Reid, Winant, A.Tingley)
July 12,1998 In Your Ear New Music Festival, Berkeley Art Center
Tree Piece #44 "frog persona" (1944) for 2 or more instruments (Reid, Buchla, G.Lewis)
November 7, 1994 American Music WeeK: New Music Worlds (New Music Works) Santa Cruz, CA
November 11,1994 Forest, Mills College: Tree Pieces Installation/Performance - Prieto Gallery Oakland, CA
Tree Piece #43 "studies in timbre" (1996) for violin, koto and percussion (Reid, Masaoka, Robair)
April 7, 1996 Sound Culture Festival, James Moore Theatre, Oakland Museum
Tree Piece #42 "tree collage" (1992/1994) visual and sound installation commissioned by J. Umamoto (Reid, A.Tingley)
November 11, 1994 Tree Pieces: visual scores Prieto Gallery Mills College
August 29, 1992 (premiere) Noh Sculpture - Asian American Theatre Company San Francisco
Tree Piece #41 'bird Y' (1992) for violin, piano and percussion
Commissioned by the Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio
April 11, 1992 Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio Concert (premiere) Littlefield Concert Hall Mills College
November 11, 1994 , Tree Pieces installation - Prieto Gallery Mills College
Tree Piece #37 (1993) for two instruments
December 18, 1993 Live Oak Park Berkeley
November 11, 1994 Tree Pieces installation - Prieto Gallery Mills College
September 24, 1999 Communication and Technology Cluster - Tree Piece installation Oakland, CA
Tree Piece #34 "frog ostinato"m(1985) for oboe and percussion written for *William Banovetz & William Winant
May 7, 1991 (Banovetz & Winant) San Francisco Contemporary Music Players SFMOMA Green Room San Francisco
November 16, 1985 (premiere, Banovet & Winant) New Langton Arts San Francisco
April 9, 1988 New Music With Birds, Frogs and Other Creatures Oakland Museum
2002 - Mills College Graduate Recital
October 19, 2018 Kyle Bruckmann & Christopher Froh, Faculty Recital Mondavi Arts Center, UC Davis
Tree Piece #31 "one eye sees..the other feels" (1992) for trumpet and percussion commissioned by Tom Dambly
April 11, 1992 (premiere Tom Dambly & Joel Davel) New Works for Trumpet, Littlefield Concert Hall Mills College
May 11, 1992 New Sound Works - Mills College Art Gallery
July 12, 1998 (Wendy Reid, William Winant, A. Tingley) In Your Ear Music Festival - Berkeley Art Center
January 16, 2000 Dance-Naganuma, Session House, Tokyo, Japan
Tree Piece #24 "bird music 2" (1992) for two violins and percussion (1992) (Reid, R.Revelli, K.Bobrowski)
September 27, 1992 Faculty Recital, Chapel - Holy Names University Oakland
Tree Piece #21 (1985) for violin and percussion commissioned by Mary Oliver
September 18, 1985 (premiere, Oliver,Winant) Avant-Garde Violin Recital- New Performance Gallery, San Francisco
November 16, 1985 New Langton Arts: Wendy Reid/Jin Hi Kim (Oliver,Winant) San Francisco
January 23, 1990 'YLEM: Artists Using Science & Technology' - Exploratorim San Francisco
April 16, 1990 Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio Concert Student Union - Mills College
October 12, 1990 Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio Littlefield Concert Hall Mills College Alumni Concert
Nov 1990 Abel-Steinberg-Winant japan Tour
December 1990 Ruth Botchen Dance Company: Dream of Wild Animals Oakland,CA
November 11, 1994 Tree Pieces installation Prieto Gallery Mills College
February 26, 2004 Contemporary Music Competition (Vancoillie Van Der Vekens)Antwerp, Belgium
March 4, 2004 VIP Concert (Vancoillie, Van Der Vekens) Antwerp, Belgium
Tree Piece 17 "nothing is more real than nothing" (1991) for two or more instruments
commissioned by Don Buchla
January 9, 1992 (premiere Don Buchla & Mark Goldstein) Interpretations Series, Merkin Recital Hall, New York City
October 8, 1992 (Don Buchla & William Winant) Electro-Acoustic Music Concert, Mills College
Tree Piece #17 “nothing is more real than nothing” -Beckett (1991) for 2 or more instruments commissioned by Don Buchla Chapel of the Chimes Festival, Oakland, California (Lulu, B. Hutchinson, A. Josephson, R. Heglin, G. Tingley, W. Reid, 6-21-16) Merkin Recital Hall, NYC, Interpretations Series(D. Buchla, M. Goldstein, premiere 1-9-92) Electro-Acoustic Music Concert, Mills (D. Buchla, W. Winant,10-8-92) Bird-Frog Concert, Oakland Museum (4-5-92) International Computer Music Conference, San Jose (D. Buchla, M. Goldstein, 10-15-92) Cornell University Music Department ( 11-2-92) Drew University Music Department, (11-3-92) Center for Music Technology, Rudford University (11-7-92) Mills Contemporary Ensemble Concert (4-11-93) Prieto Gallery, Mills College, Tree Pieces installation ( reception,11-11-94) Communications Technology Cluster, Oakland, CA, Tree Pieces installation (reception, 9-24-99) 15th Annual Avant-Garden Music Festival, Santa Cruz (6-11-95) ODC Theatre and Living Music Inc. Present: Spring New Music Series: Small Ensembles / Large Ensembles (P. Gelb, D. Joseph, W. Reid, A. Tingley, R. Baker, 3-24-01) Music Teachers Convention of California, San Francisco (G. Tingley, W. Reid, R. Baker, 7-3-01) Vimeo: Downbeat Means Attack (10-26-10) The Ivy Room, Berkeley (DJ Performance, 6-3-12)
Tree Piece #14 (1982) for mixed ensemble M.U.S.I.C. Festival, On Broadway, San Francisco(W. Reid, W. Winant, premiere 12-4-82)
Tree Piece #10 (1982) for 2 or more instruments commissioned by William Winant Chapel of the Chimes Festival, Oakland, California (L. Polansky, G. Tingley, W.Reid, 6-21-16) New Commissioned Works for Percussion, Mills College Concert Hall (W. Winant, W. Reid, premiere 3-31-82) New Performance Gallery, SF (5-29-84) Mills Contemporary Ensemble, Concert Hall (12-4-90) Night of the Living Composers: New Music Works Concert, Veterans' Memorial Auditorium, Santa Cruz (12-8-01) The Ivy Room, Berkeley (DJ Performance, 6-3-12)
Tree Piece #8 (1984) for solo percussion written for William Winant New Performance Gallery, SF (W. Winant, premiere 5-29-84) New Langton Arts, SF (11-16-85) San Francisco Art Institute, Bird-Frog Concert (3-12-89) Ton Art ’89, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland (11-25-89) Dream of Wild Animals, Ruth Botchen Dance Co., Oakland (12-90) The Frog Peak, Roulette, NYC (Essential Music 5-7-95) Frog Peak Concert, Town Hall, NYC (1995) SoundCulture Festival, Oakland Museum,(G. Robair, 4-7-96) In Your Ear Festival of New Music, Berkeley Art Center (7-12-98)
Tree Piece #4 “two poems by Shotsi Reid ”(1981) for voice, violin and musicbox Recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills (1881) P.A.S.S., New York City (Reid, premiere12-28-81)
Tree Piece #2 (1980) for paired instruments Mills Contemporary Ensemble Concert (W. Reid, D. Rosenboom, W. Winant, premiere 12-4-80) 7th Species Series, Ensemble Room, Mills College (12-4-93) Tree Piece #1 “Gungles” (1980) for mixed ensemble with yellow bird/ birdcage musicbox Recording, Mills (W. Winant, S. Ashley, B. Golden, W.Reid, 4-80) New Performance Works, Mills Student Union,as a live composition with musicbox (4-25-80) San Francisco Art Institute, score for film “On The Track” by L. Yam (1980) San Francisco Film Festival shorts - film by L. Yam (1982)
Game of Tree (1980 - 2004) for one or more players New Performance Gallery, San Francisco(T. Tomita, B. Golden, W. Winant, C. Maher, W. Reid, 5-29-84) Graduate Composition Seminar / Mills Contemporary Ensemble,Concert Hall, Mills College (C. Asplund, E. Osborn, G. Galindo, W. Reid, 12-4-90) Niente Gallery, Berkeley (A. Tingley, W. Reid, 1-1-2004)
EARLY WORKS and selected performances (1968 - 1978):
Glass Walls (1979) for String Quartet and Tape Kronos Quartet (premiere), Mills Concert Hall (2-13-80) San Francisco String Quartet, New Performance Gallery, SF(5-29-84) San Francisco String Quartet Readings, S.F. Conservatory (10-8-81) Mills Quartet (1st movement), New Works , Chapel (12-11-78)
Klee Pieces (1975 - 79) for mixed ensembles ASMC Special Event, Mills Concert Hall (Ensemble Klee, premiere 2-13-80) PMD Faculty Recital, Studio Theatre, Holy Names University (Faculty Ensemble for “Twittering Machine”, 6-4-97) USC Contemporary Ensemble (Klee 3), Hancock Auditorium (1975)
"Tapping on Miracles", musical score for a film by L. Rindner (1978) for mixed ensembles UCLA, Los Angeles (10-79) Mills Concert Hall (2-13-80)
Reflections on Klee (1976) for mixed ensemble Composition Departmental Recital, USC (5-10-76)
Experiments (1974) for chamber orchestra New Works, B.M. Recital, USC (4-21-75)
Sonata (1974) for alto flute and piano New Works, B.M. Recital, USC (4-21-75)
5 Sketches (1973) for mixed ensemble New Works ,B.M. Recital, USC (4-21-75)
Elegy (poem by Anne Lindbergh) (1973) for soprano and piano Barnsdall Arts Festival, Los Angeles (10-12-74) New Works (B.M. Recital), USC (4-21-75)
Variations on a Poem by Shotsi Reid (1973) for soprano and piano Barnsdall Arts Festival, Los Angeles (10-12-74) New Works,B.M. Recital, USC (4-21-75)
3 haiku (1972) for soprano, claves and piano New Works, B.M. Recital, USC (4-21-75) Starlight Bowl, Burbank (6-6-75) Students of Boulanger, Palais de Fontainbleau, France (8-75)
3 Pieces (texts: E. Dickinson, L. Cohen, W. Stevens) (1972) for tenor, flute and cello Composition Departmental Recital, USC (Donald Crockett, premiere10-23-73) New Works (B.M. Recital), USC (4-21-75)
“when god...”(-e.e. cummings) (1972) for voice and flute Barnsdall Arts Festival, Los Angeles (C.Fiasca, premiere 10-12-74)
Variations for Violin and Piano (1971) New Works, B.M. Recital, USC (4-21-75)
Pirandello’s Henry IV (1970) for violin and piano Advanced Theory Class Concert, USC (premiere 4-71)
Piece for Violin (1968) written for Shotsi Reid