Nicholas R. Nelson

The growing website of composer and technologist Nicholas R. Nelson

For Fixed Media

The Situationist Theses On Traffic

For 2-channel fixed media, premiere: SEAMUS, Miami, FL, January 2011

Roadsigns on the Journey from Denial to Anger

For 4-channel fixed media.  Commissioned by Low Brass Connection of The Netherlands for the Summer 2014 "Sounds after the OilWar" project.

Rituals of Elasticity at the Temple of the Mouse Who Devoured the World.

For 2-channel fixed media, premiere: Circuit Bridges, November 2014

Playing at SEAMUS in Miami, January 2011

Created as a study/prelude for the Low Brass Connection's "Sounds After the Oil War" project, and premiered on the Circuit Bridges festival in April in NYC. One of my first experiences with using a glitchy aesthetic as a socio-political commentary...

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For Large Ensemble

The Light Over Brooklyn Looks Like Sunrise

The CUNY CME under the baton of Whitney George, November 2011.

The CUNY Graduate Center's CME, under the more-than-able baton of Whitney George, performing "The Light Over Brooklyn Looks Like Sunrise," for chamber orchestra.

For Solo Instrument (+/- electronics)

Pars Pro Toto: On the Autotomic Regeneration of G. Verdi's Stabat Mater

Performed by the incredible David Whitwell on the Fall 2014 International Electro-acoustic Music Festival

The Solo version of this piece, performed here by David Whitwell on the fall 2013 International Electroacoustic Music Festival, with the composer (hey, that's me!) shepherding the electronics.

Premiere Performance by the inestimable Lindsay Eckinroth on the International Electro-Acoustic Music Festival

For the Love of a Wolf

Performed by Lindsey Eckinroth on the Fall 2013 International Electro-acoustic Music Festival

For Chamber Ensemble

For Flute, Trumpet, 'Cello and Marimba. Recording of the premiere performance by the Vigil ensemble (http://www.vigilensemble.org) at CUNY Graduate Center's Elebash Hall.

Insomnia: A User's Guide

Performed by the Vigil Ensemble, Elebash Hall, April 2014.

Borne Back

For Soprano, Tuba, Piano and Electronics. Premiere Sometime in Fall 2012 (?)

Premiere Recording, sometime in March, 2011. Monica Harte: Soprano; Chadwick Robert Walter, Tuba; Melissa Khong, Piano; Nicholas R. Nelson, Electronics. Elebash Recital Hall.