Musical
Compositions

New album Strange Bedfellows out now

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For more information any pieces, including sample PDFs of scores or MIDI realizations of unperformed works, or for performance requests, or for commission requests, please contact me at

klfortson [at] gmail [dot] com.

List of Works:

ORCHESTRAL

Sisyphus Stone

 Carillon  –   4’29”  –  2015

 Winner: Iowa State University

    Carillon Composition Competition

Treading Water:

Federation Bells    –  2’30” –  2015

Premiered at the Birrarung Marr Park

Centenary Festival

Hora of the Hanged Man:

                        Lindsay System Chanter-gtr  –  2’53”  –   2015

Runner Up: Lindsay System Scottish

Smallpipes  Chanter Composition Contest

Untitled:

                        gtr-vn-va-vc-db   –  5’43” –  2016

The Bosch Triptych:

2d1-2-2-2/4-2-3-1/timp+2/str   –  17’08” –   2016

Premiered by the Santa Fe

Chamber Orchestra

Whales Floating Belly Up:

acousmatic  – 10’00”   –   2016

premiered at University of Northern

Colorado’s Open Spaces New Music Festival

Arecibo Calling Kafka:

4-hand pf  – 3’44” –  2019

Snake Eats Pig:

vc-db  –  4’16”    –    2019

Gravity Wins:

bn-2x tba-vn-va-db –  7’10” –  2019

White Envelope for Wu Wren:

                        xiao/dizi-cl B♭-harp-guzhen-erhu-vn-db –  3’44”  – 2019

Crack the Needle:

bn-elec  – 2’43”  – 2019

Isolation:

acousmatic  –   7’23”  –  2020

featured in Southwestness Magazine

 

ROCK/POP

From the Deathbed Of: (co-writer)

v-egtr-bgtr-org-perc  – 45’44”    – 2004

 

Un-named Rock Album: (co-writer)

v-tpt-egtr-bgtr-gtr-vn-epf-perc-elec    –     16’15”   –  2012

Guilt Free Novelty Songs:

v-tpt-egtr-bgtr-gtr-vn-epf-perc-elec –    16’15”  –  2016

Killjoy & The Cutthroats DEMO:

v-egtr-bgtr-fl-vn-va-vc-db-pf-eorg-perc-elec    –   10’35” –  2020

Exquisite Corpse: (co-writer)

 v-egtr-bgtr-org-pf-perc-elec  –   12’15”   –   2020

3000 Tombs:

v-dizi-erhu-guzhen-egtr-bgtr-perc-elec   –  3’54” –  2020