Setlist

Cheap Admiration, Bailey/Pezel 2005
Is loosely based on a harmonic deconstruction of Sonata Ciacona by Johann Pezel (1639-1694) who worked as a musician in Germany and was promoted to town stadtpfeifer (band director) in Leipzig in 1670. Later in his career he applied for and was turned down for the job of Cantor of St. Thomaskirche, a job that J.S. Bach would hold 50 years later.

myinnersatan, 2005
myinnersatan is a combination of counterpoint exercises and a meditation of my former life as a wage slave. ( for hell is every day alive and heaven is for the naive )

Eye for Optical Theory (From The Draughtsman's Contract ), Michael Nyman 1982
It is interesting to note that the although all of Nyman's music from the Peter Greenaway film The Draughtsman's Contract was derived from a Purcell chaconne, the ground bass (on which this piece is built) was subsequently discovered to have been written by a lesser-known contemporary of Purcell.

Fearless Leader, 2006, revised spring 2007

Principle of Sufficient Irritation, 2005
A three part piece containing five melodic/ostinato gestures that can be performed in an endless variety. In rehearsals a unique roadmap and orchestration is decided upon and explored during the performance.

Undone (The Sweater Song), Rivers Cuomo 1994

paul bailey, trombone
bruce gallego, electric guitar
eric hendrickson, piano
scott mcintosh, clarinet
ryan nunes, vibraphone
carl stronach, electric bass