David Heuser

Audio Samples

Orchestra and Wind Ensemble

• Three Lopsided Dances (orchestra - 2008)
• A Screaming Comes Across the Sky (orchestra - 2005)
• Elegy, September 11 (string orchestra - 2001)
• Cauldron (orchestra - 1995)
• Moon Cycles (orchestra - 1995, rev. 1998)
• Fever Tokens (wind ensemble - 1992)
• Dragons (wind ensemble - 1987)

Mixed Chamber Ensembles

• Catching Updrafts (cl, vln, vcl, pno - 2000)
• Ceremony (2 fls, 2 tpts, 2 tbns, 4 perc - 1994)
• Carnivore (amplified pno, synthesizer, elec guitar, elec bass, 2 perc - 1994)
• Ocean (fl, cl, vln, vcl, pno, perc. - 1993)
• Chaoborus (14 players - 1993)
• The Sun, the Plough and the Hazel Tree (fl, cl, vln, vcl, pno - 1992)

Piano

• November Sonata (2004)
• Piano Sonata (2001)
• Twelve Miniatures for Piano (1999)
• Skallagrimsson (pno and tape - 1993)
• Piano Solo No. 8 - Skallagrimsson (1989)

Strings

• Thin Green Traces (vln, pno - 2006)
• Small Blue Marble (string quartet - 2004)
• Piano Trio (1997)
• 3,127 Notes for Solo Viola (1996)
• Wheel (vln and pno - 1993)
• Te Po-teki (vln - 1992)
• Vital Signs (2 vlns, vcl - 1991)
• String Quartet No. 1 (1988)

Winds

• ...recalculating... (oboe, clarinet, alto saxophone, bassoon - 2013)
• borne by constellations of green birds (alto sax, pno - 2006)
• Flood (fl, marimba/vibes [1 player] or cl, marimba/vibes [1 player] - 2005)
• Dusty Red Sphere (horn - 2004)
• Deep Blue Spiral (alto sax, tape - 1998)
• Cutting the Circle (ob, pno - 1997)
• Octet (fl, cl, 2 bsns, 2 tpts, 2 trbs - 1997)
• Still Life with Fruit (fl, perc - 1996)
• Spork (bsn and cbsn - 1995)
• The Old Voice of the Sea (cl - 1993)
• Morfran (bass cl - 1987)

Percussion

• Not here, but there (12 percussionists - 2006)
• Flood (marimba, vibes [2 players] or fl, marimba/vibes [1 player] or cl, marimba/vibes [1 player]- 2005) (audio is from flute and percussion version)
• Going to Vermont (amplified marimba, tape - 2003)
• Baby Toys (perc quartet - 2003)
• Still Life with Fruit (fl, perc - 1996)
• Secrets (percussion sextet - 1991)
• Totem (percussion sextet - 1989)
• The Way of the Animal Powers (percussion sextet - 1989)

Vocal, Opera and Choral

• A Brief History of Root Vegetables
  Individual Numbers from the opera:
  • Joy’s Aria ("I used to love coming here") (soprano, piano) 5’
  • Faye’s Aria ("I knew coming back here was a mistake") (soprano, piano) 5’
  • Oh, To Speak (baritone, piano) 5’
  • Mine Trio (soprano, soprano, baritone, piano) 4’
  • Since I Was Young (Pemmie's Aria) (tenor, piano) 4'30"

• The Golden Ax (an opera in one act for soprano, baritone, and woodwind quintet - 2006)
• Arrows (aritone, clarinet, cello and piano, 2006)
• The Cuckoo and the Moon (SATB - 2004)
• O The White Towns (voice, piano - 2003)
• The Darkness in My Pockets (voice, piano - 2001)
• The Breathing Night (SSAA, piano - 2002)
• Woman Ironing (SSAA, piano - 2001)
• Hecuba's Lament (SSAA, piano - 2000)
• Immaculate, Bored, Off-key and Vain (baritone, fl, cl, vln, vcl, vibes - 1999; rev. 2004)
• Clouds (SATB - 1999)
• Egil's Songs (baritone and pno - 1991)
• from the Aztec Ceremonial Calendar (tenor, alto fl, pno, 2 perc - 1988)

Electronic and Computer Music

• Going to Vermont (amplified marimba, tape - 2003)
• Cúchulainn's Warp-Spasm (spoken voice, tape - 2001)
• Deep Blue Spiral (alto sax, tape - 1998)
• Homage to "Plan 9 from Outer Space" (Part 1 - Paranoia) (tape - 1998)
• Skallagrimsson (pno and tape - 1993)
• Birds (tape - 1993)