Published Papers
Concerto for Nohkan and Orchestra (2017): My Ph.D. Dissertation includes the score to the Concerto for Nohkan and Orchestra, which is the first known concerto for the Japanese flute known as a Nohkan. The accompanying essay discusses the problems of notating music for Nohkan in a contemporary context, and goes on to describe the compositional and notational techniques used in the Concerto. The essay is not available online but both essay and score are available through ProQuest. The full abstract can be read here.
Notes on Traditional Japanese Transverse Flute Education: Studying Characteristic Japanese Expressions through Lessons with an American Student (2016). Essay as Second Author, with NISHIKAWA Kohei as primary author. The essay examines issues of transmission of flute performance technique across cultural and temporal gaps.
Computer Assisted Composition in Alternate Tunings: Tonal Cognition and the Thirteen Tone March (2007): An essay surrounding my March composed with thirteen equal tones to the octave, part of my Microtonal Suite. An abbreviated version was published in the 2007 ICMC Proceedings.
Syncretisms for Wind Quintet and Percussion: A Study in Combining Organizational Principles from Southeat Asia with Western Stylistic Elements (2007): The Critical Essay component to my MM Thesis in Composition (The University of North Texas College of Music, 2007). It is available here online and also through ProQuest.
Informal Essays
Understanding Rolls (2008): Composers who don’t happen to come from a percussion background often have certain common misconceptions about how to use “roll” notation for percussion instruments, and what this notation says to the player. This should clear things up.