Works by Michael Boyd

isolation/feedback (2007-08)
For string quartet

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Twelve Actions [BEE1]
For solo performer

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Becoming...everything else (2004)
For 3 or more performers from any discipline.

From the composer: I am interested in the possibility to taking performance outside of traditional venues and integrating it into public spaces and life.  This multidisciplinary work is a performance installation I created for three or more performers from any area including music, dance, performance art, theater, and so forth. In this composition, sights, sounds and actions encountered randomly throughout a building in the course of a day, week, month, etc. trigger creative responses from the performers that are be heard and seen throughout the halls, stairwells, and other public spaces of that building.

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Bit of nostalgia (2005-06)
For one or two percussionists and live electronics performer

This piece investigates the ways that objects with which performers interact (instruments) shape their actions. The percussionists take an active role in designing the stage set-up for each performance by utilizing various combinations of instrument-types (listed in the piece’s instructions including objects made of metal, wood, glass, paper, plastic, and stone) in different sectors of the performance space. Each group of instruments also contains three of eighteen relatively similar graphic score pages. The score page similarities require that performers frequently reinterpret some visual materials with greatly varying groups of instruments (and objects). While the performance proceeds, another performer interprets the same score using Cycling 74’s MAX/MSP (software that accomplishes real-time sound synthesis and processing) to process and playback sound segments from recordings of previous rehearsals and/or performances. The percussionists directly respond to these sounds as well as each other while interpreting certain pages of the score. These interactions bring a sense of self-history into the piece and create an interesting notion of depth which reflects a broader perspective of what constitutes a “work” by actively incorporating previous rehearsals and performances into the fundamental structure of the composition.

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Friday May 18 (collaborative with Stephen Lilly, 2007)
Multimedia event for several performers

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Hand Leg Suit (2003)
Mixed instrumental ensemble

From the composer: This composition reflects my interest in performance interactions between different performers and between performers and their body and instrument. In this piece, players are provided with two general types of information that they interpret and amalgamate to generate the performance: simple graphic images, and charts that list actions, parts of the body, and parts of the instrument. Though each performer generally presents these interpretations without specific consideration for other members of the ensemble, the group periodically coordinates through the repetition of specific segments of the score. Ultimately, the players are required to continually rethink how their instrument and body are used in performance, creatively producing material that both represents their individuality and at times generates a unique sense of ensemble.

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(non)symmetry (2002)
Two trombones

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Periphery (2000)
Solo electric guitar

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Assemblage (2007)
Solo performer with found objects and live electronics

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