Category Archives: Music

Jelly Donut Politics

My jaw is dropped in disbelief that I never shared this, so let this 2011 track be a 2012 post-holiday gift. Get some Jelly Donut in your Politics. Originally created for artist Marcela Torres.


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Music For Strings on a Stage

Only now realizing that I never linked to this performance of “Music for Strings on A Stage (and an audience in their seats)”. Enjoy!


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Organic Gestures

I’ve added some electro-acoustic music to my music page, which was previously absent for no good reason. No good reason at all: Organic Gestures: Out of An Echo, Humming, and From the Porch. In fact, although I wrote and recorded these three pieces 5-6 years ago (2005-2006), I’m quite fond of them listening again some [...]


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Cotton Wood Lining video now available

A video of Cotton Wood Lining, a new work commissioned by somebodies dance theater and performed on September 11th, 2010, at the around/about Contemporary Dance Festival, is now available. Check it out on it’s own page, or view below. Cotton Wood Lining from Sam L. Richards on Vimeo.


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Suite of Roads, Movement II.

Video (and audio, of course!) is now posted of the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble’s May 13th, 2010 performance of Suite of Roads, a two-movement work for orchestra. The movements, severely contrasting in style and energy from one another, have been posted on separate days, with the first movement along with the works program notes having [...]


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Suite of Roads, Movement I.

Video (and audio, of course!) is now posted of the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble’s May 13th, 2010 performance of Suite of Roads, a two-movement work for orchestra. The movements, severely contrasting in style and energy from one another, will be posted on separate days, with the second movement coming tomorrow. My program notes from the [...]


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With Bated Breath Video

I’m proud to announce that a video and audio recording of one of my most recent collaborations with choreographer Alex Taylor has now been posted here. Titled With Bated Breath, this work was long in the making and both Alex and I are very proud of the final results. Please read more about it on [...]


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Beauty’s Birth Recording

The recording of Beauty’s Birth, a soprano duet I finished this spring based on a poem which I have referenced on this blog several times, is now posted on this page. My own program notes for the work are pasted below. The profundity of this succinct and pithy poem written by my own father haunts [...]


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“My Own” Performance at Conduit

Last weekend, on February 27th, two of my works were featured in Portland, one a premiere, at Intrinsic Environment: A dance and music collaboration. A video of My Own, with choreography by Valerie Ifill and Emily Baumann, can be found here. A video of the other work, Tangential, which was an extended version of the [...]


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Master's Recital — Sospiro — ECCE

In light of the pervasive yet productive insanity I’ve endured over the past few months, I wanted to give a belated shout out of thanks to all those who participated and played in my Master’s Recital last month. Over the course of the next few days I will be going though my site updating recordings [...]


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