from "Ring of Bone" for chorus, sound artist and media, co-authored with Jeremy Wineberg (painter).  Email me for details.

Composer

To see my published works, please visit the brilliant See-a-dot Music website. 

Exploring timbral layering, vast vocal capacity, and improvisatory/self-led creation, David's compositions continue to expand the potential of the human voice.

New Pieces
Neque Diliges
    -choral overtone singing
Ah Non Giunge "AcaOpera" arrangement
    -all the fun of opera for voices only!
Overtone Etudes
    -etudes for exploring overtone singing and formant tuning
The Emoji Challenge
     -emotion comes first in this piece!  Improvisational score
        reading at its most fun
In The Name of Capitalism Part 3: Soul (listen)
   -a new approach to choral overtone singing

Kyrie
   -improvisatory setting
This Heart Within Me Burns (listen)
      -for Earth Day, 3 part women and plastic bottle  
        orchestra with optional organ
Letter To America
   -for unaccompanied soprano, also available for soprano and
     flute
Sacred Head/American Tune
   -mashup of J.S. Bach's "Passion Chorale" and Paul
     Simon's "American Tune"
Paix Joyelle (listen)
   -electronic composition using vocal overtones
Sense/Nonsense (TTBB) (SATB) (listen)
   1) An Old Man Of The West
   2) The Table and The Chair
   3) The Nutcracker and Sugartongs
I Gave My Love a Cherry (listen)
The Moment, the Sunrise, and You

 

Whitman Settings
One Brief Hour (SATB/string quartet/beatbox) (listen)
Whitman Canons (chorus)
Lack One, Lacks Both (SSAATTBB and 8 conductors) (listen)
Common Air (SATB chorale)

Published with See-a-Dot
Money is Your VuVuZeLa (SATB/soloists/vuvuzelas/iphone)
Sonnet (SATB/guitar or piano)

Cummings Settings
less incalculable (SATB/piano...choral settings of "enter
   no(silence)", "now that more nearest" and "may i feel")
Duets
  because it's spring
  seeker of truth
  now i lay me down to dream of spring

who are you, little i (Chamber Opera SATB/electric bass...many of these movements can be performed separately)
  because it's spring (SATB/e bass)
  in heavenly realms (mezzo/e bass)
  all worlds have halfsight (SATB/e bass)
  silently if (SATB)
  and beautiful, who (mezzo/e bass)
  may i feel (SATB/e bass)
  now that, more nearest (SATB/e bass)
  then Cunning forged a web (mezzo/e bass)
  a round face near the top of the stairs (SATB)
  what time is it? (SATB/e bass)
   "nothing" (SATB)
  next our illustrious scientist (tenor/e bass)
  who are you, little i (SB)
  timelessly this (SATB/e bass)
  the celestial hosts (mezzo/e bass)
  me up at does (AT/e bass)
  now does our world descend (mezzo/e bass)
  enter no silence (SATB/e bass)
  thus did immortal jealousy (mezzo/e bass)
  Poem (SATB/e bass)
  thus did immortal jealousy (mezzo/e bass)
  Song (SATB)

Ring of Bone (chorus/sound artist/media: email me for more information) (listen)

The  Frail Stag Part I. "The Hunt of the Frail Stag"(SATB) (listen)
The Frail Stag Part II. "Pense Morir" (SATB) (listen)
The Frail Stag Part III. "A Little Child Will Lead Them" (SATB)
   (listen)

Levee (TBB/string quartet/piano, poetry by George Sawaya)
One Day Down the Road (SATB/beatbox)
Only and Always (TTBB) (listen)
Annus Mirabilis (aleatoric vocal ensemble)
Ascendit Deus (SATB)
Presence (SATB, poetry by William Carlos Williams)
Jubilate (SATB, Psalm 100) (listen)
Ich Bin Auf Der Welt (Mezzo/piano, poem by Rilke)
I Am A Vessel (SATB/bagpipe/improvisation)

String Quartet No. 1
  Movement 1 (listen)
  Movement 2 (listen)
  Movement 3 (listen)
  Movement 4 (listen)
  Movement 5 (listen)

Southern Hymns and Folk Songs
Daniel Saw the Stone (SATB)
O Freedom (SATB) (listen)
Steal Away (SSAATTBB) (listen)
Steal Away (SATB)
Come Out The Wilderness (SATB) (listen)
Promised Land (2 pt from "The Sacred Harp" great for teaching)
Over My Head, I Hear Music (SATB and 30+ part canon) (listen)
Just a Closer Walk With Thee (SATB or TTBB)
Tenting Tonight (SATB)
Home on the Range (SATB)
The Saints Bound for Heaven (SATB)
This Little Light of Mine (SATB) (listen)
Give Me Jesus (SATB) (listen)
It Is Well With My Soul (SATB)
In the Sweet By and By (SATB) (listen)
Daniel Saw The Stone (SATB) (listen)
Down in the River To Pray (SATB) (listen)

Christmas
An Irish Christmas Blessing (SATB, optional strings)
Fir Tree Carol (SATB)
Blue Christmas (SATB)
Jingle Bells (SATB)
Baby It's Cold Outside (SAB and beatbox)
O Come Emmanuel (Mezzo or unison choir and brass)
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (Mezzo or unison choir and
  orchestra)
O Holy Night (SATB and soprano)
Peace, Peace (SATB, nice partner song with Silent Night)

American Popular Music Arrangements
Immaterial World (SATB/beatbox)
  -Mashup of "I Need a Dollar, "16 Tons", "Can't Buy Me Love", Mercedes 
    Benz", "Ain't We Got Fun", $100 Bills", "Money, Money, Money", and
    "Price Tag"
Hard Times (SATB)
Nelly Was a Lady (SATB)
One and Only (SATB)
Walking on the Moon (SATB and beatbox)
Homeward Bound (SATB)
Nothing Else Matters (SATB and orchestra)
Time Warp (SATB and beatbox)
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor (SATB)
Tom's Diner (SATB and beatbox)
God Bless the Child (SATB and SSAA solos) (listen)
People Get Ready (SATB)
Edge of Glory (SATB/beatbox) (listen)

Editions
The Lord's Prayer (SATB by Lucija Garuta from "God, Your Earth
   is Burning") (listen)
Deep River (SATB, Nathaniel Dett) (listen)
Where Are Now Those Jolly Swains (SAT Henry Youll)
When V and I (catch, Henry Purcell)
Of All the Instruments (catch, Henry Purcell)
Jacob's Ladder (SATB, arr. Horace Boyer with my tag and slight
   edits) (listen)
Heavenly Vision (SATB, Jacob French) (listen)
I Want To Be Ready (SATB and solo, Nathaniel Dett) (listen)
How Firm a Foundation (SATB, Sacred Harp)
Chester (SATB, William Billings)
Coenantibus Autem Illis (SATB, Juan de Lienas) (listen)
Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming (SATB, Stephen Foster)
   (listen)
Ode to the Opening of the World's Fair (SATB/piano and
   soloists George Wakefield Chadwick) (listen)
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven (Baritone/piano
   /unison chorus, Charles Ives) (listen)
Freedom, Toleration (SATB, Roy Harris) (listen)
Urbs Syon Unica (SATB from "Hora Novissima," Horatio Parker)
What If I Never Speed (SATB and continuo, John Dowland)
Lamentation Over Boston (SATB, William Billings)
London Cries (catch, Thomas Arne)
The Beautiful Shore (SATB, Stephen Foster)
Dum Pater Familias (chant)

The Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew (cantata for SATB/organ/string quartet/soprano and mezzo)
  The full piece
  Organ Prelude (organ) (listen)
  Peace Be With You (mezzo/organ) (listen)
  St. Bartholomew (unison/organ/strings) (listen)
  Blessed Apostle (SATB) (listen)
  Then You Will Be Known (soprano/organ/strings) (listen)
  The Kingdom of Death (SATB) (listen)
  Prayer (SATB/strings, text by Robert Louis Stevenson) (listen)
  Interlude (organ) (listen)
  Blessed Apostle 2 (SATB) (listen)
  Interlude (cello)
  A Few Things Explained (mezzo/SATB/organ/strings, text by  
    Pablo Neruda) (listen)
  Listen To the Word (soprano/mezzo/strings) (listen)
  If Two Make Peace (SATB) (listen)

One Brief Hour, performed by C4

String Quartet No. 1, Movement 1 "Peine", performed by the Columbine Quartet

Special thanks to C3LA, The FCCLA Cathedral Choir, Jubilate!, The Columbine Quartet, C4, Triad: Boston's Choral Collective, The Holy Cross Choirs, The New World Festival Chorus, Ryan Connell, Marta Burton, Elizabeth Caswell-Dyer, Theresa Anderson, Kip Kuepper, Ashley Mask, Wendy Redal, Lukas Graf, and Andrew Fisher for their contributions to the recordings on this page.