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L I S T O F W O R K S
updated august 26, 2025
most scores and some recordings not linked are available upon request. get in touch at connersimmons.com/contact.
solo
2025
like the clear moon — hand-built light-reactive synthesizer and live electronics | 6’30” [recording]
allemande — solo piano | 7-8’
[interlude] — prepared piano, live electronics (extract from any sense of where we were gone) | 5’ [recording]
[interlude, elsewhere] — prepared piano, live electronics (extract from any sense of where we were gone) | 5’ [recording]
2023
wolf — solo double bass and live electronics | 6’ [score]
2020
repeating myself — solo double bass | 7’ [recording] [score]
duo
2026
untitled (april) — violin and cello | 9’ [score]
december (july) — two cellos | 10’ [score]
2025
untitled (december) — flute and double bass | 10’
2024
ocean variability and acoustic propagation — piano, harpsichord, and live electronics | 8’ [score]
chamber ensemble
2026
but by the line of the arch they form – open Instrumentation | ~30” [score]
2025
any sense of where we were gone — field recordings, string quartet, live electronics, prepared piano, voice, double bass, viola, acoustic guitar, bass clarinet | 60’ [recording (record)] [recording (live jan 2026)]
// extractable movements
admission of a lack — string quartet and live electronics | 10’ [score]
[interlude] — prepared piano, live electronics | 5’
explain it to itself as wind — open instrumentation and live electronics | 20-30’ [score]
[interlude, elsewhere] — prepared piano, live electronics | 5’
in all possible worlds — string quartet and electronics | 13’ [score]
//
completely or not at all — open instrumentation (trio) | 8’
2024
everywhere all soaring — voice, live electronics, and sustaining instruments | 5-7’ [score]
2022
music for sitting 03b — any 9 instruments | open duration [recording]
large ensemble
2021
christian service songs (living still) — string orchestra | 4’30” [score] [recording]
christian service songs (of my redeemer) — wind orchestra | 4’ [recording]
christian service songs (now, as then) — full orchestra | 3’30”
[recording]
text scores
2025
now — open instrumentation | open duration [score]
2024
a quiet horn — open instrumentation | open duration [score]
beach — open instrumentation | open duration [score]
pour — open instrumentation | open duration [score]
2023
prove breeze — open instrumentation | open duration [score]
electroacoustic
2023
Improvisations for Bass and Electronics — double bass and live electronics (with Z. Pinson Hopgood) | 46’ [recording]
2022
MT-8X Studies — no-input mixer | 32’ [recording]
2021
Portraits/Landscapes — 5-channel video (optional), ambisonic audio (speaker array var.) | 60’ [recording]
// two-part work, extractable movements:
1: Landscapes — ambient “instrumental” works
music for sitting 01 | 5’39”
music for sitting 02 | 5’27”
music for sitting 03 | 3’01”
music for sitting 05 | 3’29”
2: Portraits — ambient folk songs
snow | 3’55”
quilts| 4’05”
oregon| 4’09”
reprise| 56”
11:43 pm| 5’26”
6:58 pm| 4’36”
song for my neighbor| 5’44”
intermedia
2025
37°32'17.0"N 126°50’20.7"E — installation, movement, double bass (collaboration with June Seo) (commissioned by West Fest Dance festival 2025) | 15’ [documentation]
UNSAY — experimental play, scored with live electronics, trumpet, objects (devised under the direction of Moira Zhang with Pau Zabaleta, Jing Wang, Freja Højland, Noyu Ueda, and Rodrigo Pocidonio) | 50’
2024
pulse/dot (sacred museum) — installation, live electronic sound, interactive programming (collaboration with Krish Munde, Miranda DeRossi, Cherilyn Tan) | open duration
2022
With One Another (September) — Single-channel video, oil on paper; field recordings (collaboration with Beronica Gonzales) | 20’
Event Horizon — Single-channel video; stereo audio, (collaboration with Diana Rojas) | 3’ [info]
Query — 360º video; two double basses and electronics (collaboration by Diana Rojas and Miezzma) | 30’ [recording]
XOPOΣ — 2 projectors, found digital video, found objects, live controlled lighting environment, scrim; celeste, gamba, double bass, flute, percussion, live ambisonic electronics (collaboration with Jonathan Snead and Marcel Castro-Lima for the performance of found///lost in transit ) | 15’ [documentation]
Where Were We Again? — 3 cassette players, found cassettes, 3 performers, 3 channel video (collaboration with Heather Pryse and Emmeri Bock for the performance of found///lost in transit) | 15’ [documentation]
2021
If the Thought Evaporates — 2 double basses, laptop, amplification, single-channel generative video, lights (collaboration with Dianna Rojas + Miezzma) | 20’
Harbinger — Single channel video, stereo audio (collaboration with Diana Rojas) | 5’ [recording]
I’ll Be With You in a Moment — Web-based virtual reality installation (collaboration with Diana Rojas and Gavin Santopetro) | open duration
The Always Girls and Forever Boys — Video, narration, dancers, two amplified double basses (collaboration with Sean Lopez and Kory Reeder) | 12’
Leisure Colors — Video, fixed media (collaboration with Sean Lopez) | 5’
2020
Genesis — Audio-reactive/generative video, theremin; improvised double bass (collaboration with Diana Rojas) | open duration
film and television
2025
The Bionic and Organic — fashion film, prod. Project A Art Group and Lillian Tuttle [info]
Pure Negation — fashion film, prod. Project A Art Group and Margarida Feijao [info]
2023
J+S — Drama, short film dir. Ben Escobar. Created for the Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Palme d’Or winner) Creator’s Lab by Playlab Films, one of fifty films selected worldwide.
2022
Where To? — Drama, short film dir. Brian Thompson
2020
MindBody Poetics Soundtrack — Web-based meditation platform by MindBody LA, created under the direction of Padric Payton and Dr. Drew Schnurr
2019
Fairview Chronicles (pilot) — Sci-Fi television series, Dir. Jonathan Paul (collaboration with Dr. Drew Schnurr and Victor Granados)
The Class of 2018 B.C. — Indie feature film, dir. Ben Escobar [excerpt]
Hotwire — Comedic indie short film, dir. Andrew Valentine
A Cat With Nine Lives Always Dies… Again — Indie horror trailer