Christopher Shultis

variable ensembles, percussion-centered

Musical works:

1. motion/less for percussion sol
2. Oneiro for percussion trio
3. 64 Statements re and not re Child of Tree for solo percussion and audio tapes
4. Pastorale for solo percussion and Dance
5. Friends, for piano, crotales, and narrator
6. Three Short Pieces: i. Five, brass quintet; ii. Four interludes from Downward Facing Dog, for piano solo; iii. For Frank Bowen, solo flute
7. Decline of the West, for female narrator and all-male heavy-metal band
8. Metaphysics, for spoken voice and boom boxes, requiring 7 assistants
9. Faith, for voice or any instrument
10. Hope, for hand percussion, guitars, and voices (Version 2 of Decline of the West, when performed as part of the opera, Faith, Hope, and Love
11. Love, for Seven Performers
12. Do something/Do something else, for any number of performers
13. Gesturing hands, for solo theremin
14. Blindness, for solo marimba
15. Written on the body, for musicians and dancers

Texts:

1. Synesthesia and the Re-integration of the Senses
2. Experiment and Revolution, a primary role of percussion in American music
3. The Politics of Improvisation

Score Book cover artwork by Hee Sook Kim.