Alignment (1983) for string quartet
“A clever, Reichian rondo. No two bars were alike, and meters changed with each bar, a snazzy trick that hasn’t waned in popularity. A quirky, puckish pizzicato filtered throughout the entire quartet amidst calm, methodical, clockwork gestures, following a very subtle upward tangent. There was a striking and irresistible, rather tongue-in-cheek tempo shift in the third movement, shades of early 1960s Terry Riley. And the ending was very smartly timed: just when the Escher-like cells seemed like they’d go on forever, there was a trick ending, followed so soon by the real one that the jape was still resonating by the time the second one clicked into place.”
– Alan Young (Lucid Culture) on Alignment
Aerial (1981) for two clarinets + piano
Convergence (1980) for four players