PRINCIPAL WORKS, PERFORMANCES
TWO RIMBAUD SONGS for baritone and piano 1963-64
CHEZ ELLE electronic tape 1968
AT IT'S electronic tape 1968
LAPIS electronic tape 1968
FREE a collection of musical scores, poems, and graphic works with contributions by Martin Bartlett, Philip Glass, Patrick Gleason, Anthony Gnazzo, Steve Reich, and Alden Jenks; the collection as a whole designed and edited by Alden Jenks.
Published by the Mills College Tape Music Center and given away free
1969
NAMO electronic tape 1971
VIDEOM I for acoustic instruments, color TV/oscilloscope, and TV monitors with video modulation 1971
SPACE electronic tape. Performed alone in some circumstances, with instruments in others. 1972
SEEING IN THE DARK electronic tape: one version with a male vocalist, another with a male actor/dancer 1972
MUMMERMUSIC for mime, tape and synthesizer 1975
WAVING a film of electronically generated images with Britton Pyland and Efrem Lipkin 1975
THOSE LONG CANADIAN WINTERS for actor/composer in bird costume by artist Peter Veres, two tapes, synthesizer, and slide projections
1976
THE CONFINES OF SYMMETRY for winds, brass, and percussion. A set of variations, based on computer-generated symmetrical rhythmic processes
1975-1977
MARRYING MUSIC for two pianos 1978 Rev.1983
Winner of "Diploma and Medal" from the 3rd Viotti-Valsesia International Music Competition in 1983
OHIO electronic tape for dance 1980
FEMME FATALE for a choreographed drama; for string quartet, clarinet, piano, percussion. 1981
NAGASAKI electronic tape 1982-83
AND THE WINNER IS... electronic tape for a choreographed drama 1983
THREE STAFFORD SONGS (text by Wm. Stafford) for tenor, flute, clarinet, viola 1985-88
SNEAK PREVIEW or HOUSES OF MUD AND ROCK electronic sound track for video drama 1987
FOUR PIANO BALLADS for piano 1987-88
ANSICHTSKARTE AN JOHANN for two pianos 1989, rev.1994
Performances: 12/10/2008 SFCM Recital Hall
WEST MEETS EAST commercial project --- sound track for instructional video 1989
CALCULULATIONS electronic tape 1990
MENAGE for synthesizer, piano, and percussion 1994
THE CANDLE A SAINT (text by Wallace Stevens) for reader, guitar, and tape 1994
EXPLORERS (text by Chas. Simic) for singer, tape, synthesizer, percussion instruments, MIDI percussion controller, Macintosh computer 1994, rev. 1995
LETTER FROM LINDA song for soprano, actress, and piano; text anonymous 1998-99
performances: 12/10/2008 SFCM Recital Hall
6/20/2010, San Francisco Cabaret Opera, Indre Viskontas, singer, Sarita Cannon, actress, Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano
Feb. 1, 2014 at the Center for New Music in San Francisco. Lora Libby, singer, Amy Foote, actress, Mikako Endo, piano
Feb. 10, 2014, at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, same personnel
MARTIN PUT THAT GUN AWAY electroacoustic composition 2000
SOUR MUSIC Music for 12 instruments and electronic sound 2002
OGNAGGIO AD ANZZONIO for Anthony Gnazzo - electroacoustic composition (2003). Revised version, with performance element (2011), Performances:
July, 2011, at The Luggage Store, San Francisco, with Anthony Gnazzo soloist;
Sept. 20, 2011, Raleigh, N.C., Rodney Waschka II, actor.
Feb. 1, 2014 at the Center for New Music in San Francisco. AJ actor.
Feb. 10, 2014, at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. AJ actor
Feb. 18, 2014 North Carolina State University. Rodney Waschka II, actor.
GHOST SONGS Three Songs on Poems by Charles Simic for soprano and piano (Night Picnic; Ghosts; Shadow Publishing Company)
2004
performances:
Nov. 13, 2005, San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Elena Krell, soprano, Mack McCray, piano
March 12, 2006, “Sounds New” concert at Unitarian Universalist Church, Kensington, CA. Anna Carol Dudley, soprano, Herb Bielawa, piano
March 10, 2012, National Association of Composers/USA National Conference, Portland, Oregon. Irene Weldon, soprano, Christopher Schindler, piano;
Nov. 16, 2013 at the Bentley Music Academy, Mutiara Damansara (near Kuala Lumpur), Malaysia. Nicole Thomson, soprano, ?, piano.
July 11, 12, 2014 Community Music Center, San Francisco; Indre Viskontas, soprano; Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano
TIME SUITE Seven Songs on Poems by Jim Harrison for baritone and piano 2005
The following songs published in the Oregon Literary Review, Winter/Spring 2007, ISSN 1556 0325, Vol.2, No.1:
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After Ikkyu #51. Score, Music.
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After Ikkyu #19. Score, Music.
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Time Suite. Score, Music (selections).
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After Ikkyu #29. Score, Music.
* Lullaby for a Daughter. Score, Music.
performances:
Nov. 13, 2005 Allen Shearer, baritone; Tim Bach, piano
Four songs performed:
Feb. 1, 2014 at the Center for New Music in San Francisco. Lora Libby, soprano, Ian Scarfe, piano
Feb. 10, 2014, at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Lora Libby, soprano, Ian Scarfe, piano
PRELUDE for organ 2005
FIVE CALIFORNIA SONGS on texts by Richard Brautigan, Robert Hass, Leonard Nathan, and Philip Whalen for tenor, cello, and piano
2006
THE SOUP for baritone/mezzo, alto saxophone, electric guitar, string bass, piano, synthesizer+sampler, two percussion, electronics
2007
TOKYO CROW electroacoustic composition 2008-09
WAR OF WORDS for computer generated sound, electric guitar, percussion (performers also have narration roles) 2010-11
HEARING TEST for actors, electronics, and Skatchbox 2011
Performances:
July, 2011, at The Luggage Store, San Francisco
Feb. 1, 2014 at the Center for New Music in San Francisco. AJ + audience
Feb. 10, 2014, at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, AJ + audience
UNRESTFUL SLEEP for piano solo 2011
Performances:
July 15, 2011 at the Berkeley Arts Festival. Jerry Kuderna, piano.
August 21, 2011, “Mano a Mano Piano Festival”, Cornelia Street Café, New York City, NY. Jerry Kuderna, piano.
Feb. 11, 2012, National Association of Composers/USA, Covenant Presbyterian Church, Palo Alto, CA Mikako Endo, piano
March 6, 2012, Western Illinois University, Jeffrey Brown, piano.
November, 2012, Tokyo, Japan, Mikako Endo, piano
Feb. 1, 2014 at the Center for New Music in San Francisco. Mikako Endo, piano
Feb. 10, 2014, at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Mikako Endo, piano
April 27, 2014, Foothill Presbyterian Church 5301 McKee Rd., San Jose, CA, Mikako Endo, piano
May 24, 2014, Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley, CA, Mikako Endo, piano
HAMMERED for piano and computer 2012
Performances:
Feb. 1, 2014 at the Center for New Music in San Francisco. Ian Scarfe, piano, AJ computer.
Feb. 10, 2014, at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, same personnel.
May 24, 2014, Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley, CA, same personnel
October 16m 2016, Berkeley Hillside Club, Berkeley, CA (revised version) same personnel
OH IT’S YOU for soprano and computer (text by the composer) 2000 – 2013 - performances:
Feb. 1, 2014 at the Center for New Music in San Francisco. Amy Foote, actress,soprano, AJ computer.
Feb. 10, 2014, at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, same personnel.
May 24, 2014, Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley, CA, , same personnel.
IntEruptions for Electric Guitar, Percussion, and electronics 2014
QUINTET for strings (solo or ensemble) 1997-2014
AFTERWORLD, opera in three acts
TRIPLETS for soprano, piano, cello, on twenty rhymed poems (by Jenks)
Performance: May 2, 2018 Center for New Music, San Francisco (Jane Spencer Mills, soprano; Charly Akert, cello, Alden Jenks, piano)