List of works

Erik Spangler - composer

ELECTRONIC/MULTIMEDIA

Missa Pachamama (2022 - in progress) remix of original Mass (in Latin) for choir, sampled and combined with added parts from musicians bridging the United States and Ecuador, in collabora- tion with Jezie Zhunio, Dany Zhunio, Jeron White, Shodekeh Talifero, Verónica Solano and other musicians of Cañari heritage, incorporating chant in Qichua

Underground Intelligence (2022) composition for choreography by Nicole Martinell, performed by dance students at Towson University

Outdoor Classroom Co-Design In Real Time (2022) music for audio course, narrated and de- signed by Paul Lovelace (Teach Outside)

Living Proof (2022) historical audio tour soundtrack in collaboration with Paul Lovelace (Teach Outside), created for EJ Curley & Co. bourbon distillery in Jessamine County, KY

Step-A-Tune Soundweb (2022) collaborative composition with percussive dancer Becky Hill, for modular synthesizer connected to a dance board. Performed in extended version at Strathmore, North Bethesda, MD; final version premiered at Becky Hill’s MFA dance thesis concert at the University of Maryland, College Park

Boom Bap in Quarantine (2021) self-released album of remote musical collaborations with a range of musicians affiliated with Baltimore Boom Bap Society

Above The Free School (2020) album of previously unreleased instrumental hip hop tracks from first years in Baltimore, generally created between 2007-2010

Veiled (2020) - dance for the camera, choreography by Amber Daniels and Becky Hill, University of Maryland

The space between (us) (2019) composition for choreography by Deep Vision Dance Company, Baltimore

NONUMENT 01: McKeldin Fountain (2018) sound design and musical score for site-specific virtual reality app for iPhone, in collaboration with Lisa Moren and Jaimes Mayhew

Beethoven 7th Symphony Remixes (2017) live performance of remixed elements from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 as Baltimore Boom Bap Society with beatboxer Shodekeh and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, for Midweek Concert: Baltimore Voices, conducted by Nicholas Hersch at Joseph A. Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore

Accokeek Dialogue Pieces (2017) a series of audio pieces combining speaking voices and musical score, documenting the dialogue at the Accokeek Foundation’s March 2017 symposium on “Race, Agriculture, and Living History”, held at the University of Maryland, College Park

Garden of Three Continents (2016) audio tour for agricultural exhibit at the National Colonial Farm, commissioned by the Accokeek Foundation, Accokeek, MD

Time In The Unconscious (2016) suite of four electronic pieces in both fixed and live versions for dance performance, in collaboration with Jezie Zhunio; premiered in Cuenca, Ecuador (flexible timing)

A Soldier’s Tale - Remix Suite (2016) remixes of movements from Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat Suite commissioned by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, performing with members of the orchestra as part of Baltimore Boom Bap Society (c. 10’)

Estuary Outflow (2015) networked performance with found objects and electronics, connecting groups of performers in 3 different locations through Skype (45’)

Underspace / Accokeek Subterrain (2015) soundtrack for an installation focused on the science of soil, commissioned by the Accokeek Foundation for the National Colonial Farm, Accokeek, MD

Introducing The Spangler Family: Intergenerational Electronics (2015) self-released album (55’)

The National Anthem, Remixed (Rocket’s Red Glare) (2014) live audio collage as part of a Baltimore Boom Bap Society collaboration, commissioned by the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African-American History for their exhibit For Whom It Stands

From The Mountains: Hazel Dickens in Baltimore (2014) for folk ballad singer/narrator, melodica, banjo & electronics with scrolling projections (c. 10’). Collaboration with old-time music duo Anna & Elizabeth for the first Crankie Festival, Baltimore, MD. Recipient of a New Music USA Project Grant.

Dolmen Music, Part 1 (Shodekeh’s Embody & Continuums Remix) (2012) remix of Meredith Monk’s Dolmen Music, released by the Monk Foundation for the album, MONK MIX: Remixes & Interpretations of Music By Meredith Monk (7’)

Cloudsplitter (2012) self-released album

Sonatas & Interludes Remixed (2012) four tracks remixing samples from Adam Tendler’s per-

formance of John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano

Music For An Abandoned Video Game (2011) contracted work scoring 6 minutes of a vertical

slice for Day One Studios video game company

Project20 Remix: Mobtown DoubleDecade (2011) commissioned by Mobtown Modern for the 20th anniversary of the Contemporary Museum: twenty Baltimore musicians contributed samples of their playing, each twenty seconds in length

Beats for Shark In You - Du Yun (2011) album collaboration with composer/singer Du Yun

Chalk Outlines soundtrack (2010) score for film by Joe Zohar, Moving Box Studios

Live remixes - Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Tierkreis (2010), a Hybrid Groove Project collaboration with saxophonist Brian Sacawa, for the Contemporary Museum’s Mobtown Modern music series. Additional remixes of other composers’ work created for Mobtown Modern have included Maknongan (2009) by Giacinto Scelsi, Lick (2008) by Julia Wolf, Grab It! (2008) by Jacob Ter Velduis, Music in Similar Motion (2008) by Philip Glass, and Coming Together (2007) by Frederic Rzewski

The Story of This Place: Charm City Remix (2008) score for an interactive audio walking tour, with site-specific narratives by Kianga Ford, commissioned by the Contemporary Museum, Balti- more, MD

M9 soundtrack (2008) score for film by Joe Zohar, Moving Box Studios

Fourth World Nyabinghi (2006) album

Repentance soundtrack (2005) score for film by Joe Zohar, Moving Box Studios

Iraq Mix - Eyes Wide Open (2005) EP, with slide show by George Sapio

Dismantling War (2005) live mix in collaboration with the Human Studies Film Archive of the Smithsonian Institution, commissioned for Ithaca College's First Year Reading Initiative. Multimedia presentation with VJs Art Jones and Simon Tarr, lighting designer Changhee Chun, with a spoken word "libretto" of quotes compiled under the direction of historian Patricia Zimmermann.

Tompkins County Organic: homegrown beats, vol. I (2005) album

High Lonesome (2003) score for film by Andrew Hulse, County Line Productions

ORCHESTRAL

Five Levels of the Watershed (2011) for youth orchestra and live electronics (11’) Commissioned by the Chesapeake Youth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Julien Benichou Annapolis, MD

Z-Land (2008) for youth orchestra and live electronics (8’)

Commissioned by Marie TenElshof for the 10th Anniversary of Zeeland Public School Orchestra Program, Zeeland, MI. Also performed in 2017 by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Mandala of the Four Directions (2004, revised 2010) a ritual cantata for 4 singers and 4 an- tiphonal ensembles (c. 55')
A thesis presented to The Harvard Music Department in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the subject of Music Composition .

First performance: Mobtown Modern music series, The Vigil all-night music festival at Maryland Insitute College of Art; four ensembles conducted by Julien Benichou, Ruben Capriles, Takuya Nishiwaki, and Brandon Keith Brown
Baltimore, MD

Remix/Origin (2001) for orchestra (6')
First reading: Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra, conducted by James Yannatos Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

The Sea of Glass (1997) for piano and orchestra (10')
First performance: Injae Cho, piano; Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, cond. by Timothy Weiss
Midwest Composers’ Symposium
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

CHAMBER AND INSTRUMENTAL

#VibrateHigher (2020) for student string ensemble and DJ/electronics (4’), composed for a planned residency with students at Thomas Jefferson School, in collaboration with Baltimore Ceasefire, organized by Arts Every Day. Postponed due to Covid-19

Painted Desert Loops (2019) for student string ensemble and DJ/electronics (7’), performed with students from Thomas Jefferson School in Baltimore, MD, through a residency organized by Arts Every Day

Double Identities (2015) for piano and DJ (c. 9’). Commissioned by Jacqueline C. Leung, performed at SUNY Stonybrook, followed by the FIMAC festival of contemporary music in Cuenca, Ecuador

Binaural Forest (2012) for banjo and electronics (22’), performed by the composer at 2640 Space, Baltimore, MD

ZeroTime Operations (2012) for two geographically separated ensembles (43’). Composed as a networked performance between Rome, Italy and Baltimore, Maryland; video score controlling an improvisation built around samples from vinyl records, representing specific instruments in the ensembles of the two locations. Premiered on the Mobtown Modern music series at Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Silo (2011) for toy piano and melodica - one player (3'30")
Commissioned by Phyllis Chen, premiered at International Contemporary Ensemble’s ICE Fest 2011, Chicago, IL

Grandpa Dale Songs (2010) for live looping soloist: keyboard, melodica, violin, theremin, APC40 (24')

Premiered by the composer at the Windup Space in Baltimore, MD

Pre-Dawn Artscape/Ghost Town (2009) for live looping soloist: guitar, melodica, violin,

theremin, toy megaphone, turntables/KP3/Ableton Live (7')
Premiered by the composer on the Mobtown Modern music series, Baltimore, MD

a firefly in the belly (2007) for bassoon and DJ (7') Commissioned by Dana Jessen

first performance: Dana Jessen, bassoon; composer on turntables. Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, NH

Every Time - Tucson Remix (2006) for soprano saxophone, Hammond B3 organ, didjeridoo, and DJ (6'30")

First performance: Hybrid Groove Project (Brian Sacawa, saxophone; DJ Dubble8, turntables);

Brian Ellis, organ; Brian Ten Eyck, didjeridoo. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Glacier, Stone, Lake (2005) for percussion quartet and DJ (c. 6’)
Commissioned by Cayenna Ponchione for the Ithaca College Percussion Ensemble. Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY

Inner Circle (1999, revised 2005) for four duos (c. 18')
Performance of first version: The Fromm Players, conducted by Jeff Milarsky. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

pastlife laptops and attic instruments (2004) for alto saxophone and DJ (14')
First performance: Brian Sacawa, saxophone; composer on turntables; video projection by Jonny DeKamm.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Tahirih (2003) for soprano saxophone and percussion (5')
First performance: yesaroun’ duo— Eric Hewitt, saxophone; Sam Solomon, percussion. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Midnight Turning (2003) for chamber orchestra and DJ (6')
First performance: Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conducted by Gil Rose; composer on turntables.
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Kawthar (2002) for clarinet quartet and water sound-collage (10')
First performance: The Vance Quartet— Dan Schlesinger, clarinet; Justin Stanley, clarinet; Marie Rinkoski, bass clarinet; Jaime McGill, bass clarinet.
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH and Banff Music Festival, Canada

Links (2000) for solo piano and tape (6')

First performance: Du Yun, piano. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Sketch (2000) for solo violin (4')

First reading: Rolf Schulte, violin. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Granite Breathing (2000) for brass quintet + percussion (9')
First performance: The Atlantic Brass Quintet; Bob Schultz, percussion. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Gut Matrix (1999) for solo guitar (7')

First performance: Bob Ward, guitar. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Per Taormina (1998) for 3 trumpets in C (7')
First performance: Anthony Gimenez, Tom Duprey, Jeffrey Popadic— trumpets. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Keter/Yesod (1996) for speaker and string ensemble (c. 15')
First performance: Alan Tormey, speaker; ad hoc ensemble conducted by the composer. Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

The Dreamt Man Awoke (1994) for solo flute (4')

First performance: Molly Barth, flute
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

Four Little Piano Pieces (1993) for solo piano (5')

First performance: Haewon Song, piano
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

VOCAL

Tablet of the Holy Mariner (2022) for SATB choir and breath artist (c. 20')

[unperformed]

Mass (2021) for SATB choir

Composed for the Mount Calvary Choir, Baltimore, MD

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Of the Father’s love begotten (2020) for SATB choir

Commissioned by Andrew Johnson for the Mount Calvary Choir, Baltimore, MD

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Non e xhiamma ordinaria (2019) for tenor, mandolin, baroque cello and harpsichord (c. 5’) [unperformed]

Der Schwan (2019) for bass voice, cello and piano (3’)

Commissioned by Carol Spangler for the 97th birthday of Janice Baumback, my grandmother. Performed at First Presbyterian Church, Iowa City, IA

Ex umbris (2018) for SATB choir