T he Living Composers Project

Corner, Philip (b. April 10, 1933, Bronx, New York). American composer, now resident in Italy, of interdisciplinary works that have been performed throughout the world; he is also active as a performer, visual artist and writer.

As a performer of new music, he has been active as a pianist, trombonist and vocalist and has also played Alphorn and various natural objects, including resonant metals. He served as a resident composer and musician to the Judson Dance Theatre in New York from 1962–64. With Malcolm Goldstein and James Tenney, he co-founded the Tone Roads Chamber Ensemble in 1963, a new music group that performed until 1970. He co-founded with Julie Winter the music-ritual ensemble Sounds out of Silent Spaces in 1972 and with Barbara Benary and Daniel Goode Gamelan Son of Lion in 1976 and often played with both, as well as with the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York.

He is featured in the book The Four Suits (1966, Something Else Press) and an overview of his life and work is presented in the book LifeWork: A Unity (1991–93, Frog Peak Music). As a writer, he has written numerous articles, essays and poems, and his major publications include the book I Can Walk through the World as Music (1966, unpublished; 1980, Printed Editions).

He taught piano privately in New York City from 1962–68 and taught secondary subjects at the New Lincoln School in New York City from 1966–72. He then gave courses on analysis of new music and experimental composition at the New School for Social Research from 1967–70 and taught music theory, new music and world music at Rutgers University from 1972–92.

He has also used the Korean name Gwan Pok – Contemplating Waterfall on occasion. He is married to the dancer Phoebe Neville, with whom he has often collaborated, and has lived in Italy since 1992.

Frog Peak Music distributes all of his music that is currently available.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Street address: Mr. Philip Corner, Via Nacchi 3, 42100 Reggio Emilia, Italy

Telephone/fax: + 3905 2244 0271

E-mail address for consulting books, recordings and scores: fp@frogpeak.org

Website (publisher): http://www.frogpeak.org/

COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS (note that these works are listed alphabetically according to a general category defined by the composer and that individual dates are not mentioned; though this list may not be complete, it is as complete as possible, although it omits some music and most writings that are available in manuscript only, as well as most assemblages, calligraphy, collages, drawings, and paintings)

I – CULTURE (TRADITION; ASSIMILATION), 1950–59:

(1) Abstract Motet I (vocalise), 4 mixed voices, any number of players ad libitum (also version for 4 mixed voices ad libitum, any number of players)

(2) Abstract Motet II (vocalise), 5 mixed voices, any number of players ad libitum (also version for 5 mixed voices ad libitum, any number of players)

(3) The Boy and the Flute (text by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson [English translation]), mixed chorus, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon

(4) A Concoction, 2 clarinets, 2 saxophones, trumpet, guitar, 2 violins, 2 celli, piano, percussion

(5) Constants 4 A-B, piano 4 hands

(6) Construction for the Occurrence of Disintegration (incidental music, play by an unknown playwright), any ensemble

(7) Dialogues (suite), flute, bassoon

(8) Divertmento, flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, percussion, symphonic band

(9) Duet, violin, cello

(10) Étincelles, piano 4 hands

(11) Evolving Extremities, variable orchestra (one section may be performed separately: not-yet evolved extremities, violin, cello)

(12) Expressions in Parallel (vocalise) (dance music, choreography by James Waring), soprano, tenor, alto saxophone, cello, percussion (in audience)

(13) Fantasy, piano, ensemble (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, 2 French horns, violin, viola, cello, double bass) (also version for piano, orchestra)

(14) Finale, violin, cello, piano

(15) Flux and Form Nos. 2-17, piano/any number of pianos (each of its 16 sections may be performed separately or together in any order)

(16) for the guitar

(17) Four Choruses from Edna St. Vincent Millay, mixed chorus

(18) From the Paris Notebooks (each of its sections may be performed separately: Chanson [text from an anonymous source], voice, piano; Sous le Pont Mirabeau [text by Guillaume Apollinaire], speaker, piano)

(19) Frozen Motion, ensemble of Klangfarbenmelodie instruments (currently under revision)

(20) Fugue, 2 pianos 8 hands, ensemble ad libitum (flute, 2 French horns, trumpet, timpani)

(21) Homage to Couperin, harpsichord, tape/any noises

(22) Movements and Impulsion (each of its sections may be performed separately: Movements, string quartet; Impulsion, string quartet, double bass ad libitum)

(23) Oedipus Rex (text by Sophocles [English translation]), male chorus, clarinet, French horn, cello, piano

(24) Pensive: Prelude and Fugue, string orchestra (also version for string quartet, double bass)

(25) Piano Suite Intended for Dance, piano/any other instrument (also versions of some sections as Sense Structure Feel, piano/any other instrument)

(26) Pieces for String Instruments Nos. 2-8, any number of string instruments (each of its seven sections may be performed separately or various sections may be performed together to make an ensemble work)

(27) Poem of e.e. cummings, voice, piano

(28) Pot Piece, violin, viola, cello (with conductor [+ pots])

(29) Rondo in B minor, trombone, piano

(30) Scherzo, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon

(31) Seven Joyous Flashes, piano

(32) Short Piano Pieces (each of its 13 sections may be performed separately)

(33) Sonata I-II, orchestra (each of its sections may be performed separately)

(34) Sonorous Piece, 5 trombones

(35) Stücke, flute

(36) this is it...this time, orchestra

(37) Trio, violin, cello, piano

(38) Two-Part Monologues, any bowed string instrument, any keyboard instrument

(39) Variations on 'Home on the Range', 2 pianos

II – THE WORLD (GRAPHIC INNOVATIONS AND INDETERMINACY), 1960–75:

(1) aaah/mmm, any number of breathing voices

(2) accompanied by..., any number of noisemakers (1 player)

(3) Air Effect (vocalise), any small number of voices, any small number of wind instruments

(4) An anti-personnel CBU-Type cluster bomb unit will be thrown into the audience (performance consists of announcing the cancellation of the performance)

(5) Arrangement with Direction, any large ensemble (with conductor)

(6) as pure to begin, amplified piano (+ any number of objects)

(7) attempting whitenesses, any homogeneous sustained-tone ensemble

(8) BELLS, any number of small bells/handbells (any number of players)

(9) Bev's Circus Tape (dance music, choreography by Beverly Blossom), tape (realized with technical assistance by James Seawright)

(10) Big Trombone, improvisational trombone, tape

(11) Birds and Crickets (imitations of natural sounds), any number of players

(12) Borderline Music, any number of percussion instruments (+ any number of instruments, any number of objects) (1 or more players)

(13) CarrotChewPerformance (audience participation piece in a loft setting)

(14) Celebrations – The Image of this Traditional Winter, any number of voices ad libitum, any number of instruments ad libitum, organ (also versions for any number of voices ad libitum, organ; any number of instruments ad libitum, organ)

(15) Certain Distilling Processes, any number of players (with any number of dancer-conductors)

(16) Chirographic (vocalise), any chorus/ensemble

(17) Chopin Prelude I, 'The V9 chord which begins the Chopin D Major Prelude...as a revelation', piano (+ any large number of instruments)

(18) Chopin Prelude II, 'The F# section in the middle of the D Major Prelude of Chopin...as a revelation', piano (+ any small number of instruments ad libitum)

(19) Choral Chord Constant (imitations of environmental sounds), any number of voices

(20) Chorus Centers Separate (vocalise), any number of voices, any number of players (with conductor)

(21) C Major Chord, any number of available instruments

(22) Coldwater Basin 1, tape

(23) Coldwater Basin 2, tape

(24) Complements I, 1 or more low bowed string instruments, piano/other accompanying instrument

(25) Complements II, any 2 or more glissando instruments/tape

(26) composition with or without Beverly (dance music, choreography by Beverly Blossom), piano/percussion ad libitum, tape

(27) Concert (vocalise), any number of voices, any number of instruments

(28) Concerto for Housekeeper, piano (+ dust rag)

(29) Crash Actions, any number of percussion (may be performed with in intimacy – pulsation)

(30) 'Do' (for) (with) Max-Feed, electronic gadget (by Max Neuhaus)/other apparatus

(31) Drum Ball, any number of hand-held drums (+ any number of large bouncing balls) (any number of players)

(32) Education Events (texts reporting on listening exercises and experiences at the New Lincoln School)

(33) Enough! Or Too-much!, any number of percussion instruments (+ any number of noisemakers) (any number of players)

(34) eruptions, piano

(35) Everything Max Has, any large number of percussion instruments (1 or more players), amplification ad libitum (may be performed with Beforehand or Afterward/Intermission)

(36) The Finales – 2; 3; 4, any number of voices/players (with actions) (each of its three sections may be performed separately)

(37) Flares, any ensemble, slide projections (by the composer), light installation (also version as Flares – the electronic element, tape)

(38) For Two Trombones No. 2

(39) Fountain, tape

(40) Friendly Low B-flat for Ruth Emerson, bass trombone

(41) From Thaïs (dance music, choreography by Yvonne Rainer), tape

(42) From Years ago at Dick Higgins' Loft, any number of objects (any number of players)

(43) GONG!, 1 or more tam-tams/any other gong-like instruments (any number of players)

(44) Hear It! (vocalise), any number of voices, any number of percussion, any number of players (with noisemakers), tape ad libitum

(45) Heavy Lines, any number of ensembles (around hall)

(46) High Contrast, organ

(47) Homage to Revere, any number of resonant kitchen utensils (any number of players)

(48) The Identical Lunch (report in book form) (realization of proposal by Alison Knowles)

(49) If and When it Will Ever Again Be Possible to Write a Piece for Symphony Orchestra, variable orchestra

(50) Imminences (vocalise), any number of voices, any number of players (with noisemakers), any number of tapes ad libitum

(51) Impulses to Realize (modules), any number of players

(52) in intimacy – pulsation, any number of percussion (may be performed with Crash Actions)

(53) Ink Marks for Performance, piano

(54) Inner Ear, string orchestra

(55) Insects, and nonsongbirds miscellany (transcriptions of natural sounds), any number of percussion

(56) Intermission (any purposeful activity with percussion instruments), player, amplification ad libitum (also expanded version as Beforehand or Afterward, percussion; either version may be performed with Everything Max Has)

(57) is that what that sound is supposed to sound like? (vocalise), any number of voices

(58) Ives and Thoreau with specifics for these times (lecture, texts by the composer, Charles Ives, Henry David Thoreau), speaker

(59) Keyboard Dances (performance proposals), 1 or more pianos (any number of players)

(60) Lecture from Sunday Performance (text by the composer), speaker (+ any number of instruments)

(61) Loud Music for Large Space, any ensemble, amplification ad libitum

(62) Lovely Music, any number of sustained-pitch instruments/voices

(63) Lucinda's Pastime (dance music, choreography by Lucinda Childs), tape

(64) Made, by underhanded notes (behind my back), 1 or more keyboard instruments (1 or more players) (also version for any ensemble)

(65) Memories: Performances, tape

(66) Metal Meditations (collection), any number of metal objects (any number of players, audience)

(67) metronomes (vocalise), piano (+ voice, any number of metronomes, any number of objects)

(68) Mississippi River South of Memphis, any heterogeneous ensemble of pitched instruments

(69) Mouth Pieces (ongoing collection of ideas for private and public performances concerning food)

(70) Moving Piece, any portable bowed string instrument

(71) The Mozart Material, piano/harpsichord

(72) The Muse..., from lines and curves (rubbing of any surface by any number of players) (also realization as film Sonata bianca [IV (20)])

(73) Music Radio, radio (any number of operators)

(74) Music, reserved until now, any ensemble

(75) A New Way for Radios, any number of radios (any number of operators)

(76) Of things which have no yesterday, no tomorrow, no today (vocalise), any number of voices, any number of moving players, light installation ad libitum

(77) Old Bells' Towers, carillon

(78) OM: be at the beginning (collection of structural workings with one note), any number of voices/instruments

(79) OM Emerging, any 1 or more sustained-tone instruments

(80) OM Entrance, any mixed ensemble (also version as Circle [IV (5)])

(81) Omni Oms – or 45 OM essences (proposals for improvisation), any player (also version for any number of voices/players)

(82) OM 'pot' (breath-rhythm constant achieved by one person blowing across a ceramic vessel)

(83) Oracle, an electronic cantata on images of war, tape

(84) Organ OM (vocalise), mixed chorus, organ (also versions for mixed chorus; organ)

(85) Or You Could Just Throw Ink on the Page, piano/inside piano (also version for any number of drums/gongs/any other instruments)

(86) Outbreak on the Dance Floor, clarinet, any saxophone, trumpet, trombone, double bass, piano, improvisational drumkit

(87) outburst expressive of energetic vocal ejaculations, any number of breathing voices

(88) OVERT (OPEN)-ture, piano/any small ensemble

(89) Passionate Expanse of the Law, any large ensemble (with conductor)

(90) PeopleVoiceSpace (vocalise), any 1 or more untrained voices

(91) Persimmon: Love Duet (persimmon eaten by 2 players)

(92) Philip Corner's Piece for Malcolm Goldstein by Elizabeth Munro (long-line score drawn by Elizabeth Munro), violin

(93) Piano Activities, piano (any number of players)

(94) Piano Work (destruction of a piano by any number of players) (also version as Piano Work: concert suite, piano [1 or more players with extreme yet non-destructive actions])

(95) Pieces of (Acoustic) Reality or Pieces of Reality: Rhythm (collection of live actions with sound-making possibilities, tape ad libitum)

(96) plans for a ubiquitous tone, any number of players (also version for piano)

(97) Play a Party (amplified party at radio station)

(98) Playing with the Elements, fixed number of natural objects (1 player) (each of its three sections may be performed separately: Breath: Rubbing Rock; Boiling Water; Terra Cotta-Heated Stone)

(99) Politics, Who Could Love it? (ongoing collection of 'relevant' statements, letters and special versions of compositions)

(100) Pond, selected noises (any small number of players)

(101) PoorManMusic, any number of small percussion instruments (any number of players)

(102) Popular Entertainments, any number of traditional instruments

(103) Pronouncements (vocalise), any chorus

(104) Pulse, any player

(105) Pulse: a 'Keyboard Dance', piano

(106) (pulse) (no pulse), any microtonal instrument/tape (also version as GAMELAN Delicate Computations [III (42)])

(107) Pulse Polyphony (collection of possibilities), any ensemble

(108) Punkt (staccato sounds), any number of players

(109) Quiet Work of Destruction (delicate dismantling and represtining of a superannuated piano by any number of players)

(110) Rationalize Outside Sounds (music for an event by Carolee Schneemann), subtle environmental sounds (any number of players) (outside hall)

(111) re-cords (transcriptions of outdoor sounds), piano

(112) Ritual Pieces, piano 4 hands/2 or more pianos

(113) Round Sound, any number of brass/other resonant instruments (any number of players)

(114) Sang-teh – Situations, any number of voices ad libitum, any ensemble

(115) Ser-e-al Musik, tape

(116) Sketch for a musical composition based on the Hebrew letter SHIN, any number of whispering voices

(117) Soft Materials (environmental piece for small sounds), any number of players

(118) Soloist Piece, any player (also version as Many-Soloist Piece, any number of players)

(119) Solo Music and More, piano/any number of other instruments

(120) Solo with..., cello/any other instrument (with actions) (also version by Ferdinando Buonanno for piano [with actions])

(121) Some Hard Edges, mixed chorus ad libitum, any number of percussion instruments (any number of players) (with conductor), tape ad libitum

(122) Sounds, austere, for elegant rooms, any large number of sound sources

(123) s p r o u t i n g (formerly Punishment Piece), any instrument capable of continuous glissandi

(124) Stepped from another dance, this time for Sally (dance music, choreography by Sally Gross), inside piano (1 or more players)

(125) straight, any 4 or more wind instruments, any 4 or more string instruments (with conductor)

(126) 3 for Phyllis for Some Things (choreography by Phyllis Lamhut), dancer, any noises (1 player)

(127) time time time time, any number of players (with metronomes) (also version for piano [any number of players])

(128) To Play the Room (invisible animations of the hall)

(129) 12 Tone, any ensemble (also versions for any player; any number of players)

(130) up to 7 juxtaposed, and... (any texts from relevant politics), speaker (+ piano, any number of objects)

(131) Vocalize, any number of voices (around hall)

(132) Worded Music (text by the composer), any small number of voices/speakers/instruments

(133) Wowunupo – Grizzly Bear Hiding Place (text from a book about Ishi; after text is read, there is darkness for sound imagining in silence), speaker

(134) Xpressions (calligraphic expressions, vocalise), any 1 or more voices (with actions ad libitum)

III – MIND (INSTRUCTION PAGES WITH EXAMPLES; PRECISIONS ADDED TO FREEDOM), 1972–89 (note that the Gamelan series contains more than 500 works, only some of which have been realized and are thus listed here; 463 works from this series are currently available; all works in the Gamelan series may be performed by instruments other than those mentioned):

(1) Askings and Answerings (responses to some questions posed by Udo Kasemets)

(2) Battutosso (Bone Pulse), set of bones (1 player)

(3) Belementronum (metronome swinging between two bells)

(4) Belum, gamelan orchestra in mixed tunings (also versions for any ensemble in mixed tunings; any mixed Western-multicultural ensemble)

(5) counterpoint.s (repertoire of 3-part canons, text from solfège syllables), any number of voices/players (realizations for symphonic band [with 2 conductors]; brass band; version as counterpoint.s: winter holiday [V (5)])

(6) Democracy in Action, any player, voting audience

(7) Ear Journeys: Water (invitation to listen in various ways to fountains and streams)

(8) elementals, any number of players

(9) Gamelan, gamelan orchestra

(10) Gamelan II, 'Number Measure Increase Downwards', gamelan orchestra (also versions for any number of peking [Indonesian metallophones]; any number of gambang [Indonesian xylophones]; any ensemble; any number of voices [vocalise]; any actions [any number of players]; applause [any number of players]; automatic piano; as Gamelan II [b-], 'Number Measure Decrease Upwards', gamelan orchestra; as Rainbow Rhythmic Polyphony [time/space/color structure]; by Lou Harrison for just-intonation keyboard; by Rupert Kettle as ...after a fashion, large drumkit)

(11) Gamelan III, 'ten second-center'd cycles', gamelan orchestra/other resonant percussion instruments

(12) Gamelan IV, 'extents of magnifying', gamelan orchestra

(13) Gamelan V, gamelan orchestra

(14) Gamelan VI, gamelan orchestra

(15) Gamelan VII, gamelan orchestra

(16) Gamelan VIII, gamelan orchestra

(17) Gamelan IX, 'evening of evennesses', any number of marching hubcaps/kenong (large Indonesian pot gongs) (any number of players) (also versions for clappers [any number of players]; any voice [vocalise]; version as Gamelan IX-P, 'Polarities, Their Proliferation', gamelan orchestra; also versions for any actions [any number of players]; applause [any number of players]; any chorus [vocalise])

(18) Gamelan X, gamelan orchestra

(19) Gamelan XI, gamelan orchestra

(20) Gamelan XII, 'quiet 12s', tuned telephone bells (1 player), any number of players

(21) Gamelan XIII, gamelan orchestra

(22) Gamelan XIV, gamelan orchestra

(23) Gamelan XV, 'I/Increments', gamelan orchestra

(24) Gamelan XXXI, 'Angelheart I', gamelan orchestra

(25) Gamelan LXV, gamelan orchestra

(26) Gamelan ADAGIO, prepared piano, 4 angklung (Indonesian bamboo rattles), slide projections (by the composer)

(27) Gamelan ANTIPODES, violin, gamelan orchestra

(28) Gamelan ARPA, harp

(29) Gamelan The Barcelona Cathedral, 1st, gamelan orchestra (also version for piano 4 hands)

(30) Gamelan BB RR OO SS AA, gamelan orchestra/any homogenous ensemble

(31) Gamelan BK, gamelan orchestra (also version for piano)

(32) Gamelan BROSSA, piano/any plucked string instrument

(33) Gamelan BROSSA ACADEMICA, piano

(34) Gamelan BROSSA BROSSA BROSSA, gamelan orchestra/any ensemble of Western instruments

(35) Gamelan BROSSA EXOTICA, gender (Indonesian metallophone)

(36) Gamelan CLASSICAL, any number of melody instruments, any patterned accompaniment

(37) Gamelan COL T.J. I, piano 4 hands (collaboration with Tom Johnson)

(38) Gamelan COL T.J. II, piano 4 hands (collaboration with Tom Johnson)

(39) Gamelan Concert! O, harpsichord, gambang ad libitum, gamelan orchestra (also versions for variable rock band; 1 or more pianos; version as Toccata [vocalise], voice, guitar, 1-2 percussion [timbales, marimba])

(40) Gamelan CORN, violin

(41) Gamelan DD, 'Doubles', piano 6 hands

(42) Gamelan DELICATE COMPUTATIONS, computer (version of [pulse] [no pulse] [II (106)]; collaboration with Phil Burk, Larry Polansky)

(43) Gamelan EVERCHANGE, gamelan orchestra

(44) Gamelan EVERYDAY (INDOORS) (pianists also count aloud), 2 pianos/piano 4 hands

(45) Gamelan EVERYDAY (OUTDOORS), any number of found objects (any number of players)

(46) Gamelan The Flight of the System, piano (also version for 2 celli)

(47) Gamelan The Gold Stone, violin/cello

(48) Gamelan GONG, 4 Preludes and a Durchführung (for the class of Gertrud Meyer-Denkmann), any number of gongs (any number of players)

(49) Gamelan HOURS, gamelan orchestra (section of work Gamelan NEA, a collaboration with Barbara Benary, Daniel Goode, Peter Griggs; may be performed separately)

(50) Gamelan ICE, EIS, IJS, ÍS (vocalise; vocalists also throw stones into water), any number of voices

(51) Gamelan IRIS, gamelan orchestra (also version for any player; expanded version by Iris Brooks for transverse flute [+ suling, shakuhachi (bamboo flutes)], gamelan orchestra)

(52) Gamelan I Second(s), piano, metronome

(53) Gamelan Italy Revisited I, gamelan orchestra

(54) Gamelan Italy Revisited II, gamelan orchestra

(55) Gamelan Italy Revisited III, 'regolato', gamelan orchestra (also version for piano/prepared piano, any number of percussion)

(56) Gamelan LY, 'Lyra', clarinet, erhu, gamelan orchestra (also version for prepared piano)

(57) Gamelan MASS (outdoor piece), any number of percussion, gamelan orchestra

(58) Gamelan MED I AN, kendang (Indonesian drum), gamelan orchestra

(59) Gamelan MIX, 'Mixing Up Everything', any number of plucked instruments/struck instruments/objects (around hall; any number of players), gamelan orchestra

(60) Gamelan MOBILE, piano (with keyboard template by Beth Laurin)

(61) Gamelan MOBILEL, piano

(62) Gamelan MU (vocalise; verbalized sound images), any voice, any ad libitum sounds

(63) Gamelan NEP.AL I (TEMP.EL)...morning, any number of struck resonant instruments (any large number of players)

(64) Gamelan NEP.AL II (TEMP.US)...night, any number of struck resonant instruments (any large number of players)

(65) Gamelan NORWAY TO COLORADO, piano

(66) Gamelan OB (Order breaks.not.broken), piano

(67) Gamelan ONE NOTE ONCE EACH, gamelan orchestra

(68) Gamelan ONE NOTES ONCES, gamelan orchestra

(69) Gamelan · O (On-Off), any number of small objects (1 player), metronome

(70) Gamelan P, 'La Pasionaria', flute, piano

(71) Gamelan P. .C (Prelude and Conclusion), gamelan orchestra

(72) Gamelan PHASESHIFT, gamelan orchestra

(73) Gamelan PIECES OF REALITY – RHYTHM, any number of moving players (with noisemakers) (also version for tape)

(74) Gamelan PLANET-PLANES (PLANETEN-EBENEN) (theatre piece), any number of players

(75) Gamelan PRO-CESSION (ritual march), any number of hand-held suspended bells (any number of moving players) (also versions for flowerpots [any number of players]; any chorus [vocalise])

(76) Gamelan PRO-GRESSION, gamelan orchestra

(77) Gamelan QUASI, dancer-conductor, gamelan orchestra (also version for piano)

(78) Gamelan RICEFIELDS, any number of hand-held noisy instruments (any number of players)

(79) Gamelan Rite Right, gamelan orchestra (also version for piano [any number of players])

(80) Gamelan RO RY RX 6, gamelan orchestra

(81) Gamelan RO RY RX 7, gamelan orchestra

(82) Gamelan RO RY RX 8, gamelan orchestra

(83) Gamelan RO RY RX 9, gamelan orchestra

(84) Gamelan SANTO, piano

(85) Gamelan S-D (Space Density Time Synch), piano 4 hands

(86) Gamelan SKIN, any number of membranophones/human bodies (1 or more players) (also version for live painting, including on the body)

(87) Gamelan SOUND/SILENCE MEDITATION I, piano (also versions for violin, viola, cello; cello)

(88) Gamelan SOUND/SILENCE MEDITATION II, piano

(89) Gamelan SOUND/SILENCE MEDITATION III, piano

(90) Gamelan SOUND/SILENCE MEDITATION IV, piano

(91) Gamelan SOUND/SILENCE MEDITATION V, piano

(92) Gamelan SOUND/SILENCE MEDITATION VI, piano

(93) Gamelan SP(A)RK-S, any microtonal instrument

(94) Gamelan SPECS (computer-generated score), any ensemble

(95) Gamelan SPKL, microtonal cello

(96) Gamelan STEINN, any number of Icelandic stones/similar-sounding objects (any number of players)

(97) Gamelan T (Techniques), piano

(98) Gamelan THINGS, any number of objects (any number of players) (also version by Alison Knowles for fixed number of objects [1 player])

(99) Gamelan TWO IN THAILAND (both players also dance), hand-held gong, hand-held cymbal

(100) Gamelan TWO TOO, any ensemble of pitched instruments

(101) Gamelan VOX (vocalized polyrhythmic mnemonic exercise), any number of hand-held bells (+ body slaps) (1 player) (also versions [vocalises] for any voice, any ensemble; preacher, congregation; any voice; any speaking chorus; any mixed ensemble; gamelan orchestra [players also whisper]; any number of marching players; any number of speaking-singing players; tape; by Jon Child for film)

(102) Gending AUSTRALOJAVACUS, gamelan orchestra

(103) Gending in the Western Manner, pelog-tuned gamelan orchestra

(104) Hljoð – White Sound/Silence (installation: a lit-up empty room)

(105) The Iceland Pieces (collection of scores and texts), any number of players

(106) Lancaran, 'A Good Laugh for a Glad Heart', any number of voices ad libitum, pelog-tuned gamelan orchestra

(107) The Mandukya Upanishad as a Lesson in Solfeggio (ear-training class)

(108) Metelementus (edition of stones cast in bronze as handbells)

(109) La Musica per il Gusto del Colore (9 sets of recordings of food preparation, music for performances of Colored Dinners by Rosanna Chiessi), c. 40 tapes per set

(110) Old Shoe Room (installation: a pristine room with shoes in the center, approachable via white stones)

(111) One Note Once (collection of variations on the same principle), any number of players

(112) Orgasms (ongoing collection of drawings)

(113) Outer Ear: Birds in Tree, any small ensemble

(114) Peace, Be Still (round for meditation, text from the words "peace, be still"), any chorus/participating audience

(115) Pendopo, any number of mixed gamelan orchestras/multicultural ensembles

(116) 'perfect', any number of round-bottomed objects (wobbling on piano strings/other resonant surface) (1 or more players)

(117) Petali Pianissimo, piano (with flower petals falling on keyboard/strings) (may be performed as a public interactive installation)

(118) Pictures of Pictures from Pictures of Pictures, piano

(119) A Reverence to the Piano, piano (also expanded versions as Japan Honoring Version, piano/other instrument; Reverence to Your Instrument, any player)

(120) Rhythmic Minstrels (exercises in rhythm), any number of players

(121) Rounds: – the rest of them (collection, texts by the composer, the Hallelujah, Gertrude Stein), any chorus/private vocal group

(122) Saluti a Tutti (invitation for an audience to breath with a leader [also English, German, Japanese, Korean translations])

(123) Some Silences (ongoing collection of sentences spoken at meditation sessions)

(124) Sounds, Austere, for Elegant Rooms, any number of players

(125) Through the Mysterious Barricade, improvisational piano/harpsichord (also versions for improvisational piano/harpsichord, any ensemble of Western instruments ad libitum, gamelan orchestra; improvisational piano/harpsichord, any number of drums)

(126) Two French Tritone Dominants, any small ensemble (also version of second movement as Two Chords of the Rose + Cross by Satie...as a revelation)

(127) Uhhm (after a deep and Tibetan image) (chant), any amplified voice, tape

(128) X-tone tunes (collection of 'dodeca'phonic structures linked to singable melodies), any number of pitched instruments (two of its sections may be performed separately: Variation 'XII': Picture of a Small Main-stream with Music Department, piano; Omnitonalita, any number of pitched instruments)

IV – BODY (BREAKTHROUGH TO CONSCIOUS SPONTANEITY), 1989–99:

(1) Bellway (structured walk through hanging bells from various parts of the world)

(2) Book non-burning (action/installation), reading player, audience

(3) Buns in Bangkok (action duet, choreography by Phoebe Neville), dancer (on the piano), out-of-tune piano

(4) ChorusDream (dream #523) (vocalise), any number of voices

(5) Circle, any mixed ensemble (version of OM Entrance [II (80)])

(6) EarthBreath, improvisational Alphorn

(7) Das Ewig Weiblich (series of calligraphic drawings in rainbow colors of the text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in English, German, Italian)

(8) Four Withinstascys (for Paulette Sears), dancer, piano

(9) Gong/Ear, dancer, tam-tam (may also be performed as Ear/Body, Cymbal/Ear, other titles)

(10) just another 12-tone piece, any ensemble (also version as 12^x tone Fluxus [from flux anew] [V (12)])

(11) Louis in C, dancer ad libitum, improvisational piano

(12) A Modern Meditation (series of objects consisting of a cushion placed before a highly-lacquered circle in which an image of oneself is reflected)

(13) passages from the material to the spiritual, and back (list of meaningful verbs chosen by the composer), speaker (+ any number of hand-held sound objects)

(14) Piece (in the Form) of a Pear, piano/any 1 or more other instruments

(15) Rainbow Bell (installation: an audience-approachable church bell with colored drapes)

(16) River Song, piano (also version [vocalise] for any number of voices, any ensemble)

(17) La Scala della Montagna (sound installation with participatory performance structure made of cowbells)

(18) Self-crucifixion in the Modern World (ongoing collection of arches colored with automobile lacquer, life-size cross set as a mirror)

(19) Several Sexuelementos (love scores for private performances)

(20) Sonata bianca, film (by the composer) (realization of The Muse..., from lines and curves [II (72)])

(21) Sound Scenes (collection of 31 scores), any number of players, environmental sounds

(22) Suite in Series, any ensemble (each of its four sections may be performed separately: By Chance!...a tone-row; Row/Row/Row; THIS SERIOUS SERIES; exPression conStruct)

(23) Summing-Up: a miscellany for musicians from 1999–2002 (collection), any number of players

(24) Symphysies (collection of erotic writings)

(25) Tantric Star of David (neon sculpture) (a light sequence may also be programmed as Sinfolumina)

(26) Two Chords of the Rose + Cross by Satie...as a revelation, piano (version of second movement of Two French Tritone Dominants; also version for electric guitar, cello, piano, vibraphone; version as radio play for tape)

(27) Two Hallelujahs (4-part canon), any chorus, unison chord

(28) Two Microtonal Memories, any 2 glissando instruments

(29) Understanding (trance-induced actions preferably projected onto an electronic keyboard), electronic keyboard (+ piano, any number of percussion instruments ad libitum), technical assistant

(30) Voce di corno/voce di uomo (texts from the Hallelujah, round for meditation "peace, be still, be wrapped in perfect peace"), Alpine male chorus, Alphorn

V – SPIRIT; SOUL (INTEGRATION AND SYNTHESIS), 1999–:

(1) Act-Ons (large collection of verbal bases for improvisation; players also use their bodies and sing), any number of untrained players (with any number of objects), participating audience

(2) À la manière de Philip Corner by Nam June Paik / In the Manner of Nam June Paik by Philip Corner (including 'Several Celebrated Symphonies, shortened'), piano

(3) An EarthBreath Trilogy, any wind instrument (+ voice)

(4) Certain Statistics ('Systems of Bound Freedom'), any player/ensemble

(5) counterpoint.s: winter holiday (3-part canons with themes derived from various world Christmas musics), any chorus, organ/any ensemble (version of counterpoint.s [III (5)])

(6) The Country Feast-Peroushka, piano (arrangement of work by Modest Mussorgsky)

(7) Dialog between Rationality and Emotions, any number of players

(8) Dick Higgins' '1000 Symphonies' (performing versions of Symphony Nos. 163, 177, 342, 357, 609, 1968 Sample Page), any large ensemble (with conductor)

(9) During This Concert the Hall will be bombed – or blown up (performance consists of announcing the cancellation of the performance)

(10) First Travels in the New Millennium (glissando study), any player, drone

(11) 5 Pieces Before the Beginning of 2005, any number of players

(12) flux anew (each of its four sections may be performed separately: Flux to non-Flux, string quartet/other ensemble; 12^x Tone Fluxus, any number of players [version of just another 12-tone piece] [IV (10)]; flux rows, any noises [1 or more players]; Dodecaspeech [player also speaks, sings the names of the notes used in the piece], any player)

(13) the Form and the Flux, improvised-on (based on the principle of Flux and Form No. 2), any number of pianos (also versions for any number of harps/guitars/other long-vibrating plucked instruments; any number of long-vibrating bowed strings/pitched metallophones/appropriate live electronics)

(14) formulation for a free solo, piano/any other instrument

(15) Harmonic Entities, any number of players

(16) Higher Order Unities (in memoriam James Tenney), any number of players

(17) in extremis, organ (also version for any large ensemble)

(18) Italian Folk Song: 'La Domenica andando ala Messa', female chorus/mixed chorus/male chorus

(19) Like a Gong (2 pieces), piano

(20) limits of the limitless (a collection for large ensembles, including chorus)

(21) Memories (are made from things like this) (14 days of notated improvisations based on a principle [written] of provoked spontaneity)

(22) More Intimate Musics (large collection of verbal bases for improvisation), any small ensemble (six of its sections may be performed separately: La Bella Infinità [choreography by Phoebe Neville], dancer, any small sounds [1 player]; Enterance [visual music]; One Note Once or One Note[s] Once[s] or X Notes X Times or Once Each, etc., any number of dancers, any number of players; When They Pull the Plug, any number of instruments [played with rough, non-musical objects] [any number of players]; extents of the Possible – a development section, any number of pitched instruments; Memory of Arlene, Rothlein, any number of dancers, any number of improvisational players)

(23) Music for Drips, any small number of players, dripping water (with amplification ad libitum)/tape, any number of amplified sound sources/tape

(24) Music Muse, any number of players (also version [text by the composer] for soprano, viola, piano, vibraphone, slide projections [paintings by Theo van Doesburg])

(25) Music Muse: Ciaccio, metal percussion instruments (any number of players)

(26) Music Muse: Miró (interpretation of paintings by Joan Miró), piano (+ inside piano), slide projections (paintings by Joan Miró)

(27) NeWerKs, 2003.....2007 (collection of short scores)

(28) November 2006, any player/ensemble

(29) One More 11* – Tone (& Times , Feelings , Silences) Piece, any ensemble of pitched instruments (also version for any number of pitched instruments)

(30) One Note, more than once, any number of pitched instruments (also version as One Note, more than once......smooth)

(31) One Self-Expression Once, sound artist/action artist (also expanded version as A Self-Expression Series)

(32) The Opening Motive of Varèse's Density 21.5...as a revelation

(33) Other Orchestras (collection of pieces appropriate for large groups of instruments)

(34) Passacaglia, piano (arrangement of work by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber)

(35) Philharmonia, any number of multicultural voices/players (sitting in a large circle)

(36) Piano Works & Piano Plays (collection of piano pieces in 3 volumes: Philosophical Etudes; Action-Concepts; PianObjectvd)

(37) Pieces of an Event, piano, any number of players, any other sounds

(38) Pieces of Piano, 1 or more pianos

(39) Political Pieces (scores and documents about social concerns)

(40) Pro Layshun. and other 21st century cannons (vocalise), any number of voices (each of its seven sections may be performed separately: Pro Layshun ['Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La']; Cannon Canon ['Boom']; A Round in Response to Larry; canon: The Lawless; LAW FULL; Feeling aRound; Howlin' Wolfs)

(41) PVNCTVS CVM PVNCTVM, any 4 pizzicato instruments (also version for harp, guitar, cello, piano)

(42) Ringing Woods (proposal for an outdoor sound installation)

(43) Salon Ninon (hommage à Ninon de Lenclos), piano/any other instrument

(44) A Salsa Symphony, any number of drums, any jazz/folk/popular ensemble capable of chord changes (realization of Symphony No. 343, 'Ad Honorem Philippi' by Dick Higgins)

(45) 7 Meditation Realities (inspirations from the Pure Land), any number of voices/players

(46) Sonate visive (collection of tracings of Thai cymbals, pvonga [Nepalese brass instrument], telephone bells, taegŭm [Korean zither], finger cymbals)

(47) Soundsarround, Sound Cube (device by Charlie Morrow) (each of its five sections may be performed separately: [t]here _____; musique; straight lines pass' t ears; untitled instruments; through composed space)

(48) SpaceShaping, any large number of voices/players (moving according to gestures of a conductor)

(49) Suggested Freedom Boundaries, any ensemble of pitched instruments

(50) Systematic Limits, any number of players

(51) Tenebres: lessons and light (Leçons de ténèbres e della luce/Studies in shadow and light), piano

(52) Tununity, any ensemble of pitched instruments

(53) Two Timeless Tone Scenes (vocalise), any number of voices, any number of players (with noisemakers ad libitum) (each of its two sections may be performed separately: New .Points; Omnitonalità)

(54) Unisson Details, any ensemble of pitched instruments

(55) Well, Come Well (choral procession), any chorus, improvisational organ

(56) What I Really Should Have Written for Band, symphonic band (also version as All the Musicians Might Play This, any player/any ensemble)

(57) Wordless : Chorale, mixed chorus

(58) Zounds! (13 canonic concepts)

SELECT DISCOGRAPHY (note that the discs are given according to their title and are not listings of individual works contained therein; excluded are cassettes, LPs and videos)

Malcolm Goldstein: Sounding the New Violin. Malcolm Goldstein, violin (¿What Next?: WN0005, 1991)

The Aerial (no. 5). (1992)

Delicate Computations. (Frog Peak Music, 1993)

Pieces of (acoustic) reality and ideality. (Alga Marghen: 013, 1997)

Resonance (vol. 7, no. 1). London Musicians Cooperative (1998)

On tape from the Judson Years. (Alga Marghen: 019, 1998)

riverrun (John Cage). (Wergo/Ars Acustica, 1999)

3 Pieces for Gamelan Ensemble. (Alga Marghen: 034, 1999)

Erratum (no. 2). (1999)

Hotsaren espazioa; Begiradaren denbora / El espacio del sonido; El tiempo de la mirada. (Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea [catalogue with CD], 1999)

40 Years and One: Philip Corner plays the Piano. (Experimental Intermedia: XI 125, 2000)

Mob Shop 1981 – the Audio Events. (Magnús Pálsson, 2000)

Gong +. (Alga Marghen: 042, c. 2000)

Between Sound and Vision. (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2001)

Homo Sonorus. (NCCA, Kaliningrad [anthology with CD], 2001)

Fluxus. (Wergo/Ars Acustica, 2001)

John Cage. (Wergo/Ars Acustica, 2003)

The Complete Gamelan in the New World. Gamelan Son of Lion (Locust Music: 41/42, 2003)

More from the Judson Years (early 60s) – Vol. 1. (Alga Marghen: 055, 2004)

More from the Judson Years (early 60s) – Vol. 2. (Alga Marghen: 056, 2004)

DIY Canons. (Pogus Productions, 2005)

From Noise to Silence. (Yogyakarta Contemporary Music Festival: 4, 2005)

Metal Notes. Gamelan Son of Lion (Locust Music: 78, 2006)

Extreme Positions. Barton Workshop (New World Records: 80659, 2007)

(Last updated on October 4, 2009)