Music

The music of Stephen David Beck includes electro-acoustic works, works for orchestra and large ensembles and music for solo and chamber ensembles. This catalog contains links to descriptions, writings and sound exceprts of works listed here.

Electro-Acoustic Music

• Millennium Bugs (1999) for bassoon and Kyma
• Echoes of a Former Self (1998) for saxophone and Kyma
• Incidental Music and Sound Design for The Mermaid Who Couldn't Sing (1997)
• Excerpts of Accidental Music (1997) for piano and interactive computer
• mySuiteSarah (in progress) for tape alone
  • Sarahnade (1997)
  • Sarahphim and Cherubim (1995)
• Don't Try This At Home (1996) for dance
• Oh, No! (Music for Kenneth) (1993) for tape alone
• Love's Not Time's Fool (1992) for wind controller and virtual instruments
• Sirènes (1992) for tape alone
• Strange Attractors v1.0as (1991) version for alto saxophone and computer
• Strange Attractors v1.0b (1990) for bassoon & computer - controlled electronics.
• Objets Perdus (1990) for piano, violin, violoncello, and tape
• The Butterfly Effect (1989) for modular analog synthesizer and performer.
• Soliloquy (1989) for violoncello and computer-controlled electronics.
• Improvisation sur Magritte (1989) for tape (with or without soprano obligato).
• Paradise un-Found(ed) (1988), 3 scenes for radio

Orchestral Music

• The Wild Rumpus (1998) for wind ensemble
• Concerto for Alto Saxophone & Orchestra (1994)
• Salome Does The Rhumba (1991) for orchestra
• ...twighlight turns from amethyst... (1986-88) for viola solo and chamber orchestra

Chamber and Instrumental Music

• La Forêt Vierge (The Primeval Forest) (1999) for harp solo
• Dressed Rehearsal Redux (1998) for mixed ensemble of any instrumentation
• Eine kleine yiddishe spaß (1998) transcribed for trumpet/alto saxophone/Bb instrument and piano
• Eine kleine yiddishe spaß (1997) for trumpet and organ
• Chasing Baby Bumblebees (1997) for saxophone quartet
• Concerto for Alto Saxophone & Orchestra (Piano Reduction) (1994)
• Excerpts of Accidental Music (1997) for piano and interactive computer
• Meditations on Hiroshima (1993) for soprano, flute, guitar and percussion
• Etudes for Harp (1993) for harp solo
• Love's Not Time's Fool (1992) for wind controller and virtual instruments
• Strange Attractors v1.0as (1991) version for alto saxophone and computer
• Strange Attractors v1.0b (1990) for bassoon & computer - controlled electronics.
• Objets Perdus (1990) for piano, violin, violoncello, and tape
• Oseh Shalom (1987, rev. 1990) for chorus
• Rounds (1990) for four trumpets
• Soliloquy (1989) for violoncello and computer-controlled electronics
• Wind Quintet (1989)