Publications

• 2008 Review of Lorraine Leu's book Brazilian Popular Music: Caetano Veloso and the Regeneration of Tradition (Ashgate, 2006) in Notes, the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association (63:4, June 2007)

• 2006 Review of Bryan McCann's book Hello-Hello Brazil. Journal of Popular Music Studies (18.3, December ‘06)

• 2004 “Conflation and Conflict in Brazilian Film Music,” Popular Music , 23/3, 2004

• 2003 “Perspectives on Brazilian Popular Music: MC Orpheu and Pluralismo,” Musical Cultures of Latin America : Global Effects, Past and Present. Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology, volume XI. Los Angeles : UCLA Ethnomusicology Department

• 1999 “Historical Field Recordings from Brazil :' Endangered Music' as Roots of National Idioms,” in Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology. Los Angeles : UCLA Ethnomusicology Department

• 1998 “The Gamelan Ideal: Imagined, Imported, Invented,” a chapter co-authored with Fred Lieberman and Leta Miller in Lou Harrison: Composing a World . New York : Oxford University Press (reprinting by Illinois University Press, 2004)

Presentations

• March, 2008 Presenter, Experiencing Villa-Lobos, An International Festival , Virginia Commonwealth University : “The Popular Music Milieu of Heitor Villa- Lobos' Brazil ”

• October, 2007 Presenter, Guitar Foundation of America , CSU Dominguez Hills: “The Popular Music Milieu of Heitor Villa-Lobos' Brazil ”

• May 2007 Presenter/co-founder, Institute for the Pedagogies of World Music Theories, University of Colorado , Boulder : “Four Aspects of World Music Theory,” and “An Approach to ‘Complex Rhythm' Pedagogy Using Traditional Brazilian Percussion”

• November, 2006 Presenter, Society for Ethnomusicology national conference, Hawaii : “The ‘ Minas Sound ' of Belo Horizonte : Regional Consciousness and Popular Music in the Brazilian ‘70s” on the panel titled ‘Hard Slap' Roc k Music and Politics in the Americas November, 2005 Presenter for roundtable on Ethnomusicology and the Uundergraduate Curriculum, Society for Ethnomusicology conference, Atlanta , GA

• June, 2005 Presenter, Institute for the Pedagogies of World Music Theories, University of Colorado , Boulder. March, 2005 Colloquium presenter, University of Colorado , Boulder Music Department: “Four essential aspects of world music theory”

• December, 2004 Presenter, Federal University , Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte , Brazil . “Ethnomusicology and avant-garde aesthetics,” followed by the premiere of the digital soundscape album Impossible Wind Miniatures . Events coordinated and hosted by Mauricio Loureiro, chair, graduate music program, UFMG.

• November, 2004 “Modal Implications in Lou Harrison's Early Work s for American Gamelan,” College Music Society national conference, San Francisco , CA

• November, 2004 “Modal Implications in Lou Harrison's Early Work s for American Gamelan,” accepted to the Society for Ethnomusicology national conference, Tuscon , AZ

• November, 2003 “World Music Theory for Composers,” presented to the University of Southern California (USC) Composition Forum

• October, 2003 “Four Essentials of World Music Theory,” Society for Ethnomusicology/College Music Society joint conference ‘Cultural Crossroads' Miami , FL

• October, 2002 “World Music Theory for Undergraduate Music Majors,” Society or Ethnomusicology, Estes Par k , CO

• March, 2002 “Conflation and Conflict in Brazilian Film Music,” College Music Society Pacific Chapter, California Polytechnic University , Pomona , CA

• February, 2002 “Conflation and Conflict in Brazilian Film Music,” Society for Ethnomusicology Southern California Chapter, Claremont College , Claremont , CA

• July, 2001 “The Ethnomusicological Juncture in Western Concert Music: Problems in Semiotics and Cross-Cultural Composition,” 36 th International Council for Traditional Music, Rio de Janeiro , Brazil

• November, 2000 “Ethnomusicological Junctures in New Music: American Gamelan Music and Adaptive Appropriation in Cross-Cultural Composition,” Waging Peace through Crosscultural Collaboration, University of Oregon , Eugene , OR

• April, 2000 “Afro-Brazilian Music and Congada: Historical Dynamics of Luso-African Cultural Roots,” 23rd Symposium on Portuguese Traditions, UCLA

• May, 1999 “DJ Orpheu: Perspectives on Brazilian Rap and Urban Popular Music,” Musical Cultures of Latin America : Global Effects, Past and Present. An interdisciplinary conference at UCLA

• December, 1998 “Musical Change and Creativity at the End of the 20 th -Century,” Change and Creativity series, Keio University , Yokohama , Japan

Recent Premieres and Performances of Compositions, including scheduled premieres

• February, 2008 Familiar Songs of the West, for mandolin and guitar. To be premiered by Buzz Gravelle and Peter Yates

• September, 2007 Curfew , for site-specific octet (percussion, French horn, trombone, flute, trumpet, saxophone, voice). SoundWalk, Long Beach

• April, 2007 Letters From Brazil , transcribed for oboe and oboe d'amor. Performed by Richard Kravchak and Scott Morris, guitar (CSU Dominguez Hills)

• February, 2007 Rua Bambuí (2006), for solo guitar. Performed by Peter Yates ( Pomona , UCLA)

• November, 2006 Artist-in-Residence concert, El Camino College, including premieres of four original compositions: Great Moments , Adventures in the Hydrogen Economy , Trio for Electric Guitar, Bass Clarinet, and Double Bass , and Themes of Ritualized Danger and Relaxation

• October, 2006 The Morton Feldman Kitchen, for flute duet. SoundWalk 2006 in Long Beach

• September,2006 Works in progress performed at Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles . Performed by Surrealestate. Works include Rico's Song and Great Moments

• March, 2006 Scenarios for Five (2001), for mixed quintet. Performed by the Cal State University Los Angeles New Music Ensemble featuring Randy Jones, tuba, conducted by John Kennedy

• January, 2006 Letters from Brazil , for soprano saxophone and guitar, Douglas Masek (saxophone) and James Smith (guitar). James Smith faculty recital, USC

• December, 2005 BH, MG ( Belo Horizonte , Minas Gerais), from Letters from Brazil , for soprano saxophone and guitar (2005). California State University , Dominguez Hills. Premiered by Douglas Masek (saxophone) and James Smith (guitar)

• December, Meditations on Cervantes , digital soundscape. Composed for Don Quixote symposium 2005 hosted by CSU, Dominguez Hills Foreign Languages Department

• November, 2005 Scenarios for Five (2001), for mixed quintet. Performed by the Cal State University Los Angeles New Music Ensemble conducted by John Kennedy

• June, 2005 Music for 13+7 plus one , a four-hour cycle of site-specific music and dance performed at the Fran k Gehry-designed Edgemar complex in Santa Monica , California . Collaboration with choreographer Kristen Smiarowski .

• May, 2005 Astral Burlesque (chamber orchestra version, 2005), premiered by the Pori Sinfonietta of Pori, Finland.

• February, 2005 Western Dog Chain , Line Space Line series, Downtown Los Angeles. Performed by Surrealestate.

• January, 2005 Structured improvisations Western Dog Chain, Temporary Walnut Sounds , and Giggling Neptune (all 2004). Premiered by the ensembles Surrealestate and SoNu at the concert Jonathon Grasse: Artist-in-Residence. Robert Haag Theater, El Camino College , Torrance , CA

• February, 2003 Aubades, Diurnes, and Nocturnes , for guitar duet (2003). Elgart- 2004 Yates duo. Chambermusic@ucla series, Schoenberg Hall, UCLA. Listen to a sound clip of "Diurne no. 1" by clicking here.

• May, 2003 Music for Water, Tree, Stone, digital soundscape (2003). Dance music for choreographer Parijat Desai, Skirball Cultural Center 's Sitewor k series, Los Angeles . Reviewed in the Los Angeles Times

• April, 2003 Themes of Literacy and Denial , for solo percussion and digital soundscape (2002-2003). UCLA Faculty Composers Concert, Don Nichols , percussion, Schoenberg Hall, UCLA

• April, 2002 Flutations , for flute quartet (2001). Los Angeles Flute Quartet. UCLA Faculty Composers Concert Schoenberg Hall, UCLA

• April, 2000  The Celestina Fragments , for percussion octet (1999-2000). The UCLA Percussion Ensemble, Mitchell Peters, director. Schoenberg Hall, UCLA .    Listen to "Inside the Windmill," an excerpt form the third movement of The Celestina Fragments.

Published Recordings (performer and/or composer)

• 2008 Composer. Letters from Brazil , transcribed for oboe and oboe d'amor for (tba) a compilation CD produced by Dr. Richard Kravcha k and CSUDH (Scott Morris, guitar) 2007 Composer. Letters from Brazil recorded by Douglas Mase k , saxophone, and James Smith, guitar. TBA Centaur Records.

• 2005 Composer/performer, electric guitar. Western Dog Chain . Performed by Surrealestate on the compact disc accompanying the SoundWal k festival catalog ( Long Beach ), 2005. Produced by Flood.

• 2002 Performer, electric guitar. “Sunyata: i. Vacio ii. Sonidos iii. Sol” by Cristian Amigo. Performed by Surrealestate on the compact disc Cristian Amigo: LA Live Sessions/Volume 1 (Big As Records)

  

• 2001 Composer. “Like a Zebra Toward the Islands of Yesterday” for solo percussion. Performed by Gustavo Aguilar on the compact disc Looking for Aztlan (Acoustic Levitation). Listen to a sound clip by clicking here.

• 2000 Composer/Performer. “Six Circles: In Memory of Alfred Schnittke” for indeterminate instruments; and “Difference Tones” performed by Surrealestate on the compact disc Contrafactum (Acoustic Leviation)

  

• 2000 Co-Composer/Performer. “In Reaction to Octavian Nemescu” performed by Surrealestate on the compact disc Bad Times Ahead For Me included with Bananafish magazine

• 1999 Performer, electric guitar. “Contrafactum in the Spirit of John Sheppard” performed by Surrealestate on the compact disc included with Resonanace magazine, vol. 7, no. 2. Published by London Musicians' Collective. Ltd.

• 1999 Performer, electric guitar. “Ants Eating Through Brick ”. Performed by Surrealestate on the compact disc Robert Reigle : The Marriage of Heaven and Earth (Acoustic Levitation)

                                        

Ethnomusicological Fieldwork and Research in Brazil (documentation/archival/study)

• June-July, 2006, Belo Horizonte and Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais Interview with Lô Borges; videography of traditional Festa Junina musical troupe; videography of live choro ensemble as presented in the Festival Inverno (UFMG); videography of A Cia Dança Bata k a (Bata k a Dance Company) and the Irmandade de Os Arturos de Contagem both presented in Belo Horizonte as part of the 2006 Festival de Arte Negra (FAN)

• December-January, 2002-03, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais and Salvador , Bahia Interviews, photographic documentation of popular and liturgical musics

• December-January, 1999-2000, Belo Horizonte/Contagem, MG Visit to the Comunidade Os Arturos for rehearsals, interviews, and photographic documentation of congado and moçambique rehearsals

• June-August, 1995, Discoteca Oneyda Alvarenga, São Paulo (Oneyda Alvarenga municipal music archive of the city of São Paulo ) Meeting with Jose Eduardo Azevedo for Ry k odisc/Library of Congress CD project. This wor k ac k nowledged in CD liner notes to The Library of Congress/Endangered Music Project: The Discoetca Collection, Missão de Pesquisas Folclóricas (RCD 10403, 1997)

• December-January, 1992-93, Belo Horizonte , MG Municipal library/archive search for congado materials; interview with regional historian Waldmir Barbosa

Awards & Grants

• May, 2007 CSU Dominguez Hills Travel Grant for presenting at the Institute for the Pedagogies of World Music Theories

• December, 2006 American Composers Forum-San Francisco/LA Subito Grant, for assistance with Artist-in-Residence concert, El Camino College Performance Series

• November, 2006 CSU Dominguez Hills Travel Grant for presenting at the Society for Ethnomusicology conference, Hawaii

• November, 2005 CSU Dominguez Hills Travel Grant for presenting at the Society for Ethnomusicology conference, Atlanta

• June, 2005 UCLA, Professional Development Award for presenting at the Institute for the Pedagogies for World Music Theories

• May, 2005 American Composers Forum- Los Angeles , Subito Grant for copying costs associated with the Finnish premiere of Astral Burlesque

• April, 2003 American Composers Forum- Los Angeles , Subito Grant for professional recording of Flutations

• October, 1997 UCLA, University Fellowship and Registration Grant for doctoral studies,

• August, 1996 UCLA, University Fellowship for doctoral studies

• June, 1996 UCLA, Registration Grant for doctoral studies