Bill Alves - List of Major Compositions

• Feb. 2006 Celestial Dance for orchestra and video projection.
• Mar. 2005 Tondo for alto flute and four basses.
• Apr. 2004 Concerto for Harp and American Gamelan.
• July 2003 Etude for MicroZone.
• March 2003 Elegy for cello and gamelan.
• December 2002 Mass Destruction for retuned electric viola or cello and CD.
• October 2002 Three Songs of Gertrude Stein for SATB chorus, soprano, speaker.
• July 2002 Aleph -- comptuer generated music and video (includes still images from the video).
• June 2002 Gending Vogel Flats for violin and Javanese gamelan.
• Mar. 2002 Gandrung for marimba, three players.
• Mar. 2002 Subak for performers clapping on body parts.
• Jan. 2002 Luminescence for choir and computer disc.
• July 2001 Late Breaking News for speaker and electronics.
• June 2001 Imbal-imbalan for gamelan (includes recording excerpt).
• July 2000 Tight Weave for wind ensemble.
• June 2000 O Viridissima Virga for choir (SSAATTB) and computer disc (includes score and recording excerpts)
• March 2000 Elegy in Memory of Bill Colvig for violin and Javanese gamelan (includes recording excerpt)
• January 2000 Static Cling -- comptuer generated music and video (includes still images from the video).
• April 1999 Gending Chilao for cello and Javanese gamelan (includes recording excerpt)
• December 1998 Skala-Niskala: Concerto for keyboard and Balinese gamelan (includes recording excerpt).
• October 1998 In-yo for shakuhachi or xiao and computer disc
• June 1998 Just On Time for digital piano, Javanese gender metallophones, and gong. (Includes complete score and link to sound excerpt.)
• January 1998 The Web Mandala.
• August 1997 Hiway 70 -- comptuer generated music and video (includes still images from the video)
• August 1996 Pelog Partita for gender, viola, cello, and percussion. (Includes score excerpt.)
• June 1996 Tingklik Toccata for tingklik (bamboo xylophone), suling (bamboo flute), electronic percussion, and gong.
• September 1994 Incidental music for Columbus (play) for electronic tape and suling bamboo flute
• February 1994 (revised 1995) Slendro Suite for cello, gender, and gong. (Includes score excerpt.)
• May 1993 California Mabommay for 8 cellos. (Includes score and sound excerpts.)
• October 1992 Collateral Damage -- comptuer generated music and video (includes still images from the video).
• April 1992 Dream and Toccata for cello and electronics.
• September 1991 Rubber Time for trumpet, electronic and acoustic percussion, and synthesizers. (Includes score excerpt.)
• June 1990 Fantasy for cello and piano.
• December 1989 River of Stars for orchestra. (Includes sound excerpt.)
• October 1988 Shadow Playfor 3 flutes (3rd dbl bass flute), 2 horns, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass, 5 antiphonal handbell ringers.
• April 1988 Spectral Motion for electronic tape.
• February 1988 Bending Space for electronic tape. (Includes sound excerpt.)
• January 1988 Falling Light for percussion quartet.
• October 1987 Time Auscultations for electronic tape with robot choreography. (Includes sound excerpt.)
• July 1987 Music for Somatic Extensions for electronic tape (short film).
• April 1987 Consort Music for 2 MIDI keyboards and percussion.
• March 1987 Epithalamium for harpsichord, oboe, and cello.
• February 1987 The Terrain of Possibilities for electronic tape.
• October 1986 The Question Mark's Black Ink for piano, percussion, and electronic tape. (Includes sound excerpt.)
• July 1986 Music for Lost (short film), electronic tape.
• April 1986 Consort Music II: Ripieno Concerto for 2 harpsichords, 4 recorders, 2 violins, viola, and cello.
• January 1986 Fantasia for piano.
• November 1985 Redundant I for electronic tape. (Includes sound excerpt.)
• April 1985 Consort Music I for 4 trombones, 2 chimes, and click tracks.
• March 1985 Nocturne for piano.
• January 1985 Piano Concerto.
• July 1984 B. Bob Major for electronic tape.
• April 1984 Quintet for 2 violins, viola, cello, and percussion.
• (Other compositions before 1984 include electronic music, chamber music, piano music, and music for theater.)