Performance/Improvisation Samples

Stephen Lilly’s Divided Attention for trombone, fixed and unfixed media (2012)

My initial conception of Divided Attention was a semi-humorous work for trombone performing a structured improvisation based on a hybrid verbal/graphic score...

Benjamin Patterson’s Paper Piece for five performers (1960)

Paper Piece was written in 1960 by composer Ben Patterson after meeting John Cage. Patterson was interested in the notion of action as composition, and as su...