Creative Work of Robert Willey
INDEX
Compositions
New Age / Jazz / Folk
Contemporary Classical / Electronic
Programmable Instruments
Recordings
Web Sites
Papers
Art
Poetry
Editions
Compositions
New Age / Jazz / Folk
- Cosmic Rag (1977), for piano
- Now You (1978)
- Butterfly (1980), for guitar
- Solstice (1980)
- Beat Me Daddy, Seven to the Bar (1980)
- Emily's Rag
- My Tuna (1980)
- Swimming in the Moonlight (1981)
- Could Not We Maybe (1981)
- Green and Pink
- Cosmic Rag (1981), for jazz ensemble
- You Can Only Be So Cosmic (1982), for jazz ensemble
- Dance Jam
- Fresno
- Going There
- Rebel Rd.
- Let G(od)
- Maracay
- Peace Piece
- Friendly Jill
- Mother's Love
- Calliope
- for the Time Being
- July 11
- Nagdeo (Good for Dreaming)
- February Song
- NIGHT WATCH - New Continuum, with Paul Tye (1987)
- Broken Arrows
- Divine Wind
- Blessed by Sea
- Common Fate
- Star Path
- PEACE PIECES
- Snails on the Move
- Music for City Moves! (dance-theatre project for children)
- It's Circus Time!
- Dance of the Dearborn
- The Mesmirizing Machine
- Tazmirian Polka
- Toy Factory
- Cindy the "C" Monster
- Soundtracks for Viva 2000 Language CD-ROM French, English,
and Spanish courses
- The Good Part (6:58)
- Upstate (Nova Bossa Nova) (1996)
- Garafão, for jazz ensemble
- Diary of the Night
- 5/20
- May I (in Reason)
-
Little Boy
-
Late Night Interview (in Reason)
-
All That Matters
-
Into The Blue
Contemporary Classical / Electronic
- Cadenza for Haydn's Concerto in G major (1968), with David
Lee Williams
- Walls (1973), for piano
- Sine Wave Study #1 (1978), for synthesizer
- And Pieces of It Fell (1979), for trumpet and piano
- I Love My Enzymes, for choir, organ, and
keyboard
- Rondo (1978), for piano
four hands
- Waltz (1980)
- Let's Voyage Into the New American House, text by
Wallace Stevens, for tenor sax and piano
- Fierce Music
- Man Ought To Sit Quiet (1980) for soprano, piano, clarinet,
and synthesizer, text by Ezra Pound
- Nostalgic Trails (1982), for solo piano
- 100% Natural (1982), for tape
- America's Finest City (The Sounds of San Diego), realized
at the Computer Audio Research Laboratory, U.C.S.D (1983)(6:00)
- Study No. 37 by Conlon Nancarrow, arranged for synthesizers
by Robert Willey
- The War Prayer for
computer-processed voice (text by Mark Twain, harmony by Johann Sebastian Bach)
(1983) (3:18). Realized at the Computer Audio Research Laboratory, University of
California, San Diego.
- Where Did They Go? (1998)
for soprano saxophone, trombones, trumpets, and piano
- Tieta de Caxambu (1996)
- Late Night Interview (2006)
- New Iberia (2006), Dickie Landry, saxophone; Robert Willey,
electronics
Programmable Instruments
- Two Over f , with Rick Bidlack
- Star Paths, with Rick Bidlack
- The Trash Cans of Science
- Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise
- Transmission Errors
- Activation Function
- The Grand Design
- From Clouds to Blood Vessels
- Ilhas Invisiveis (Invisible Islands), with Rick Bidlack
- A/ (Jasmine), with Rick Bidlack
- Cereal Music
- MADD
- Solenoise, for computer-mediated pianos
- Everyone Knows What No One Can Say
- The Last Turkey in the Straw,
for Disklavier
- Turk Loops, for Disklavier
- Hidden Heritage
- A Cloud of Grains
- L.A. Daze, N.Y. Knights
- Kidz Artz, installation for children, with Rick Bidlack
- Graceful Degradation
- A Ride on the Spree
- The Somersault of Thought
- Transmission Errors
- Lotsa Quatsy, with Rick Bidlack
- Revolving Fund
- The Butterfly Effect
- Saudades de Ouro Preto
("Memories of Ouro Preto")
- Somersault of Thought
- Frontera Norte (The Northern Border), for keyboard and
four imitators
- 3-way Dream, with Christopher Dobrian and Keith Johnson
- Unprepared Music for Prepared Violins
(performed by Païvikki Nykter and János Négyesy), for acoustic
and electronic violin
- Igitur (with János Négyesy),
intermedia
production
- Midnight
- Fooling the Devil
- Not Quite Human
- The Doll's Aria
- Shape Shifters
- The Dice Throw
- The Stairs
- Sleep on the Ashes
- Unprepared Music for Prepared Recorders (performed by Andres
Gerszenson)(1992), for recorders
- Mathew's Studies #2, #7
- En Route, with János
Négyesy, intermedia production
- Un Tiro de Dados ("A
Roll of the Dice") Robert Willey, electronics and Diego Losa,
saxophone
- Caxambulismo for Lightning and Clarinet, Robert
Willey, electronics, Maurício Loureiro, Lightning and
clarinet
- Six Stars (1996)
- Welcome to the Trondheim Composer Group Concert (1993)
- Frontera Norte ("The
Northern Border") (7:08)
- Dream Team, for New Music
Ensemble of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (clarinet, trombone,
bass, flute, saxophone), performed at Computer Music Simposium, Caxambu,
Brazil, 1995.
- 2-way Dream, with Christopher
Dobrian (9:55), for computer-mediated keyboard, voice, and guitar
-
Cereal Music
-
Six Stages of Separation (27:51), for computer-mediated saxophone,
Dickie Landry, saxophone
Recordings
- Into the Blue. Producer, composer, performer. Aucourant Records, 2007.
- The Book of Names - computer-mediated improvisation. Atlanta: Aucourant Records, 2007
- Cabaret Night. Producer. DVD of UL Jazz Ensemble concert, 2007.
- Digital
Spice. Producer, contributor. Lafayette: School of Music, 2006.
- Out of the Blue. Producer, composer, performer. Lafayette: Willshare, 2006
- From La La to Zydeco: Creole and
Zydeco Music From Louisiana. Producer.
Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies,
2005.
- DVD projects at the
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Peace Pieces. Producer, composer, performer. New age jazz folk instrumental experimental, 1993:
Out of the Blue, Welcome to
the Trondheim Composer Group Concert, Stairway to Seven,
As We Were Singing,
High
Lights, (Winter) Solstice,
Yucatan, A Game of Statues, Somersault of Thought, Written
in Umbrellas, A Cloud of Grains, The Big Glide, No Distance. Reviews.
- Intercambio. Producer, contributor. UC San Diego / Stanford University / LIPM (Buenos Aires) 1993:
(Excerpts from "Un tiro de dados").
Producer, composer of one song.
- SBCM II
Producer, contributor. "Saudades de Ouro Preto (Memories of Ouro Preto)", 1995.
- Cowboy's Dream (Raquel
St. Claire) - keyboards, Adobe Records, 1996
Web Sites
Books and Papers
http://willshare.com/willeyrk/creative
©2001 Robert Willey: willey@louisiana.edu
