There Will Come Soft Rains (2017-2019)

a multi-movement, multimedia work for percussion, strings, voices, electronics, and video

I. Prologue - Wupatki: House of the Enemies (2018) for chamber ensemble
II. There Will Come Soft Rains for percussion and spoken voice
III. Land of Little Rain: Water Trails of the Ceriso (2018) for violin and cello
IV. Land of Little Rain: 57 Buzzards (2018) for violin and viola
V. 2026 (2018) for percussion quartet and recorded spoken-voice
VI. Postlude - Lost Horse Mine Lament (2018)

Commission/Premiere: Commissioned by the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, Cory Hills, percussion and spoken voice, Ashley Bathgate, cello, Maggie Parkins, cello, Eclipse String Quartet, Lyris Quartet, Formalist Quartet, Vicky Ray, piano, Aron Kallay, piano, with video by Quintan Ana Wikswo.

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Composer-in-residence at Crystal Cove State Park and CSU Desert Studies Center, ZZYZX, Mojave Desert Preserve,

Awarded NEA Arts Works Award

New Music USA

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