Running (2008) - 9 minutes
2.2.2.2./2.2.3.0./2 perc./strings: minimum 6/6/4/4/2
Commissioned by the Orchestre symphonique de Laval, as part of the
"composer-in-residence" programme.
Hommage à Rosa Luxemburg
(Casino Adagio) (2003
/ arr: 2006) - 19 minutes
string orchestra (min:3.3.2.2.1), tape and video projection
Available in stereo or 4-channel surround tape playback
Video: Oana Suteu
An arrangment for string orchestra of the quartet work commissioned
by the Quatuor Molinari
Three or Four Days After
the Death of Kurt Cobain (1994
/ orchestration - 1996) - 9 minutes
2.2.2.2./2.2.0.0./2 perc./harp/strings: minimum 6/6/4/4/2
An orchestration of the 1994 chamber work originally written
for cello and piano
Variants (1982) - 20 minutes
2.2.2.2./2.2.0.0./timp./strings: 8-6-5-4-2
Micheline Coulombe St-Marcoux award for orchestral music (CAPAC
- 1986)
Concertino for Orchestra (1982) - 15 minutes
4.4.4.4./6.4.3.1./perc.(2)/harp/piano/strings: 16-14-12-10-8
Sir Ernest MacMillan award for orchestral music - 1st prize (CAPAC
- 1983)
Three Movements for Orchestra (1979 - 80) - 22 minutes
2.1.2.1./2.2.2.0./perc.(2)/harp/strings: 10-8-6-6-4
Orchestra with soloist(s)
Short Stories/Courts métrages - 16 minutes (2011)
for solo electric guitar (with electronics) and orchestra
2.2.2.2/2.2.0.0/harp/2 perc/strings
Commissioned by the Orchestre symphjonique de Laval, as part of the
"composer in residence" programme.
Optional video projection to accompany the music by Nelly-Éve Rajotte
Requiem 21.5 - Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra - 28 minutes (2009 - 2011)
Solo violin / string: 7.6.4.4.2 minimum
Commissioned by Symphony Nova Scotia, for concertmaster Robert Uchida
Replaces the ealier work for flute, percussion and strings of the same name (1986)
We're Hardcore - 28 minutes (2010)
for solo soprano and chamber orchestra
1.1.1.1/1.1.1.0/perc/piano/strings: 2.1.1.1
A series of 7 songs, with texts by Gordon Downie (of The Tragically Hip)
Commissioned by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
15 Stages in the Search for Radium and Love - 40 minutes (2010)
for solo soprano and chamber orchestra
1.1.1.1/1.1.1.0/perc/piano/strings: 2.1.1.1
"theatricalised" chamber music, based on the life of Polish-French sscientist Marie Curie.
Text by Douglas Burnet Smith
Commissioned by the AVENTA ensemble (Victoria, BC) for singer Janice Jackson
Amplify, Multipy, Remix and Redefine (in memory of Les Paul) (2009) - 36 mintues
for solo electric guitar, large electric guitar ensemble and orchestra
2.2.2.2/2.2.3.0/2 perc+timp/piano/strings (minimum: 8.7.6.4.3)
4 - 20 electric guitars / guitar solo (version is available for guitar solo only)
Commissioned by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra New Music Festival
16 of the guitarists can (and should!) be student guitarists (but this is not a piece for amateurs...)
A work which combines a new score with revised portions of the 1997 guitar concerto "The Body Electric"
En amour, en hiver (2009 - 2010) - 27 minutes
for baritone voice and orchestra
Original text by Michel Rivard
2.2.2.2./4.2.3.1./2 perc./strings: minimum 8/7/4/4/3
Commissioned by the Orchestre symphonique de Laval, as part of the "composer-in-residence" programme
Opposites Attract (2008) - 21 minutes
2.2.2.2./2.2.0.0./2 perc./strings: minimum 7/7/4/4/2
Solo: bass clarinet
A bass clarinet concerto commissioned for clarinetist Lori Freedman by the CBC Radio Orchestra
Guess Who Symphony (2007) - 25 minutes
radical deconstruction and arrangement of 3 songs by the 60's-70's group "The Guess Who"
American Woman / These Eyes / Runnin' Back to Saskatoon
Soprano solo
2.2.2.2./2.2.3.0/2 perc./strings
Commissioned by the CBC Radio Orchestra
The Choreography of Time:
Symphony #2 (2004 -
2010) - 40 minutes
saxophone quartet soloists (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone)
2.2.2.2./4.3.3.1/3 perc./timp./piano/harp/st. 12.10.8.6
Commissioned in part by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra for the "2005
New Music Festival"
Playing Guitar : Symphony #1 (1997 - 2002) - 46 minutes
for solo electric guitar, sampler (1 performer), 15 musicians,
and live electronics
1.2.1.1/1.1.1.0/perc./pno/2.1.1.1
solo electric guitar with electronics; sampler controlled by
MIDI keyboard;
live electronics on members of the ensemble (trumpet, flute,
piano, violin)
Commissioned by the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne
recording: Ambiances magnétiques AM 125 - Playing Guitar
: Symphony #1 - Tim Brady / Bradyworks + NEM
The Body Electric - concerto
for electric guitar and orchestra (1997 - 30 min. / revised 2008) - 20 minutes
2.2.2.2/2.2.0(3).0/perc.(2)/pno/strings:4-4-3-3-2 (el.bass - opt.)
electric guitar solo with distortion and digital delay
Commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for the
Esprit Orchestra
This work is now subsumed into the work "Amplify, Multiply, Remix and Redefine: in memory of Les Paul"
Loud - concerto for electric
guitar and orchestra (1992/93) - 19 minutes
2.2.2.2./4.3.3.1./perc.(3)/pno./strings: 10-8-4-4-2 (minimum)
electric guitar solo with digital electronics
Commissioned by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Chamber Concerto (1985) - 25 minutes
1.0.1.1./0.0.0.0./perc.(2)/strings: 2-1-1-1
piano solo/obligati for flute and cello
Commissioned by New Music Concerts, Toronto
Visions (1984) - 35 minutes
strings: 3-3-2-2-1 (minimum)
improvisational soloist
recording: Justin Time Records JTR-8413-2 - Visions -
l'Orchestre de Chambre Montréal;
Tim Brady, electric guitar; Kenny Wheeler, trumpet/flugelhorn
Chamber music
RANT! (2011) 10 minutes
for piano and percussion (vibes, marimba, drums, woodblocks), with spoken text
(spoken by performers), taken from a "rant" by TV personality Rick Mercer.
Commissioned by Pamela Riemer (piano) and Beverly Johnston (percussion).
The Spontaneous Sonata Project (2008 ) 65 minutes
12 movements for piano and electric guitar (with electronics)
some movements are structured improvisations, some are fully notated
Frame 1: Scatter (2008) - 9 minutes
electric guitar, electronics and voice
Frame 2: In Almost Unison (2009) - 6 minutes
electric guitar (with overdrive) and baritone saxophone
Frame 3: Canonic Sequnces (2006) - 9 minutes
electric guitar and bass clarinet
Frame 4: Shadow (2008) - 9 minutes
electric guitar (with digital delay) and bass trombone
Frame 5: Still (2007) - 10 minutes
electric guitar and viola
Frame 6: Four Elements (2007) - 14 minutes
electric guitar, electronics and percussion
Traces (Hommage à
Charlie Christian) (2005)
- 12 minutes
electric guitar (with electronics), tenor saxophone, percussion,
piano, sampler/synthesizer
Part of the music/video project "My 20th Century"
Double Quartet (Hommage
à Schostakovitch) (2005) - 28 mintues
electric guitar (with electronics), tenor and soprano saxophone,
percussion, piano, sampler
Part of the music/video project "My 20th Century"
Triple Riffing (2003) - 9 minutes
soprano saxophone, violin and piano
Commissioned by the American saxophonsist James Umble
Hommage à Rosa Luxemburg
(Casino Adagio) (2003)
- 19 minutes
string quartet, tape and video projection
Available in stereo or 4-channel surround tape playback (optional
string quartet amplification and diffusion)
Video: Oana Suteu
Commissioned by the Quatuor Molinari
Part of the music/video project "My 20th Century"
Frame 0 - Resonance (formerly Frame 1) (2002) - 12 minutes
electric guitar (with electronics) and piano
recording: Ambiances magnétique AM 125 - Playing Guitar
: Symphony #1 - Tim Brady/ Bradyworks + NEM
Power Lines (2001) - 17 minutes
electric guitar (with electronics), violin, viola and cello
Commissioned by Parisian guitarist Claude Pavy
Blue Melismas (2000) - 10 minutes
solo soprano saxophone, flute (picc, alto), oboe, clarinet, bassoon,
French horn
Commissioned by Calgary saxophonist Jeremy Brown
A version for woodwind quintet (without saxophone) is also available
SCAT (because we all have
voices and stories to tell) (2000) - 17 minutes
percussion (marimba, gongs, tam-tams and cymbals), clarinet,
violin and double bass
Commissioned by Motion, Fredricton
alternate versions:
Bradyworks - piano, percussion, saxophone, violon and cello
Topology - piano, violon, viola saxophone and double bass
Two Chords Less Than a Blues (1999) - 11 minutes
tenor saxophone, piano and percussion
Commissioned by New Works Calgary for saxophonist Jeremy Brown
recording: Ambiance magnétiques AM 110 - Unison Rituals
Slow Dances (1999) - 24 minutes
for Bb clarinet and string quartet
Commissioned by clarinetist Jean-Guy Boisvert
recording: Le Livre des Méloncoliies - J-F Boisvert et Quatur Bozzini - ATMA ACD2 2552
Struck Twice by Lightning (1999) - 9 minutes
sampler (or tape) and viola (or cello or electric guitar)
Lightning Field (1999) - 18 minutes
piano/sampler, soprano saxophone, violin, viola and double bass
Commissioned by the Topology ensemble, Brisbane, Australia
SauyatuGvik Sequences (1998) - 12 minutes
marimba and bass clarinet
Quartet 1998 (1998) - 18 minutes
saxophone quartet (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone)
Commissioned by the Nouveau Quatuor de Saxophone du Québec
recording: Les Disques ATMA - Quasar
28/06/98 - Fo(u)r improvisers (1998) - 7 - 27 minutes
for a string quartet of improvising musicians
Dark Matter (Primal Pulse) (1998) - 17 minutes
viola solo, flute (alto flute) oboe (English horn), clarinet,
bassoon, piano, percussion, double bass
Commissioned by the Relâche ensemble, Philadelphia
Escapement (1996 - 97) - 15 minutes
solo electric guitar (scordatura), percussion, cello and soprano
saxophone (or clarinet)
recording: Ambiance magnétiques AM 110 - Unison Rituals
Dance Me To The End (Of
Love ) (1996) - 23
minutes
string quartet, electric guitar and live electronics
Commissioned by the Smith Quartet, London
recording: Justin Time Records JTR 8484/5-2 - 10 Collaborations - Tim Brady and the Penderecki String Quartet
Double Helix (1994) - 14 minutes
piano, percussion, clarinet (b.cl) [or alto, bari.& sop.
saxophones] and cello
Commissioned by Ensemble Musica Nova, Sherbrooke (Qc)
recording: Ambiances magnétiques AM 110 - Unison Rituals
Three or Four Days After the Death of Kurt Cobain (1994)
- 9 minutes
piano and cello / new version - 1999 - piano and viola
recording: Justin Time Records JTR 84593-2 - Revolutionary
Songs - Tim Brady / Bradyworks
Unison Rituals (1991) - 12 minutes
saxophone quartet
Commissioned by the Quatuor de saxophones de Montréal
recording: Ambiances magnétiques AM 110 - Unison Rituals
Circling (1990 - 91/93) - 10 minutes
original version: flute and vibraphone
revised version: soprano saxophone or Bb clarinet and vibraphone
Commissioned by percussionist Marie-Josée Simard
recordings: Justin Time Records JTR 84593-2 - Revolutionary
Songs - Tim Brady / Bradyworks
Les Disques Atma - ACD 22115 - L'Aube enchantée -Marie-Josée
Simard (percussion) and Lise Daoust (flute)
The Songline (1989 - 91) - 40 minutes
electric guitar (w/electronics), piano, percussion, cello, saxophone
Commissioned for the Bradyworks ensemble by the Festival international
de musique actuelle de Victoriaville
Shadow Painting (1989) - 11 minutes
flute (& alto), Bb clarinet (& bass), 2 horns, flugelhorn,
percussion, harp, viola, cello
Commissioned by la Société de musique contemporaine
du Québec, Montréal
Changes (1989) - 10 minutes
percussion (vibraphone & marimba - one player) and piano
Commissioned by percussionist Marie-Josée Simard
recording: Société nouvelle d'enregistrement SNE
572 CD - Marie-Josée Simard
Doubling (1988) - 5 minutes
2, 4 or 6 instruments - keyboards, percussion or electric guitars
recording: Justin Time Records JTR 8484/5-2 - 10 Collaborations
- Tim Brady (el. gtr.) and vivé vinçent (hpschd.)
J&W Recordings CD931 - comme si l'hydrogène...the
desert speaks -
electroacoustic music for the harpsichord - Vivienne Spiteri
- (hpschd. solo)
Ghosts (1987) - 10 minutes
classical guitar quartet and optional tape
Commissioned by the English Guitar Quartet, London
Monument (1987) - 7 minutes
solo trumpet (with or without digital delay)
...in the Wake... (1985/88) - 18 minutes
flute (& alto/perc.), cello (perc.), piano (perc.)
Mobile (1984) - 24 minutes
flute and classical guitar
5 movements - individual movements may be excerpted
Symphony Number # 0 (formerly #1) - Chamber Symphony (1983/87)
- 40 minutes
1.1.1.1./1.1.1.0./perc./pno./strings:2.1.1.1.
Tessituras (1983) - 11 minutes
solo Bb clarinet
Commissioned by Robert W. Stevenson
Quintet (1983/87) - 13 minutes
clarinet, horn, piano, viola, cello
Commissioned by pianist Marc Widner
Percussion Quartet (1981) - 10 minutes
multiple percussion (4 players)
Sextet (1981) - 12 minutes
clarinet, horn, harp, violin, viola, cello
String Quartet Number One (1980) - 13 minutes
William St. Clair-Low award for chamber music - 2nd prize (CAPAC
- 1981)
Capriccio (1978/86) - 4 minutes
flute solo
Rising, Rising (1978/86) - 5 minutes
cello solo
See Also:
Playing Guitar : Symphony #1 (orchestra with soloist)
Chamber Concerto (orchestra with soloist)
15 Stages in the Search for Radium and Love (vocal music)
We're Hardcore (vocal music)
Electric guitar - solo
Frames 7 - 9: Threefold Scordautra (2010)
#7: Push / #8: Pull / #9: Hold
electric guitar solo - scordatura
Frames 10 - 13: Delay Tactics (2010)
#10: Clouds / #11: Discretion / #12: Pursuit / #13: Slant
electric guitar solso with delay/harmoniser pedal
Frames 14 - 18: Five Colours (2010)
#14: Azure / #15: Sienna / #16: Lava / #17: Harlequin / #18: Tenné
electric guitar solo
Frame 19: Trance (2008) - 11 minutes
electric guitar and live electronics
Frame 20: Switch (2006) - 12 minutes
electric guitar and live electronics
recording: Ambiances magnètiques AM156 - GO [guitar
obsession)- Tim Brady
Frame 21: Sul A (2006) - 8 minutes
electric guitar and live electronics
Frame 22: O is for Ostinato (2008) - 8 minutes
electric guitar and live electronics
Frame 23: Invisible Quartet (2006) - 11 minutes
electric guitar, live electronics and tape (or sampler)
Frame 24: 57 Ways of Playing Guitar (2007) - 15 minutes
electric guitar, live electronics and tape
GO [guitar obsession] - (1984/2006)- 9 minutes
electric guitar and looping sampler
recording: Ambiances magnètiques AM156 - GO [guitar
obsession)- Tim Brady
Strumming (Hommage à
John Lennon) (2006)
- 11 minutes
electric guitar, wth distortion and delay, and tape (in stereo
or quad) and video
Part of the music/video project "My 20th Century"
Sauchiehall Street (2001) - 8 minutes
electric guitar, harmoniser, distortion and tape
a live, extended performance version of the solo tape piece public
space / private music
recording: Ambiance magnétiques AM107 - Twenty
Quartet Inch Jacks - Tim Brady
Music Box Bell Curves ("Hello
Paris!") (2001)
- 14 minutes
electric guitar, live electronics and tape
Commissioned by INA-GRM (Radio-France) for the Festival Présence
2001
recording: Ambiance magnétiques AM107 - Twenty Quartet
Inch Jacks - Tim Brady
Red Melisma (2000) - 8 minutes
electric guitar solo
recording: Justin Time Records JTR 8484/5-2 - 10 Collaborations - Tim Brady, solo guitar
Strange Attractors (1994 - 95) - 67 minutes
A six movement work for solo electric guitar, live electronics
and tape
1] Linear projection in a jump cut world - el. gtr. and
tape (8 min.)
2] Collapsing Possibility Wave - el. gtr. and live electronics
(9 min)
3] Difference Engine #1, #2, #3 - scordatura el. gtr.
(13 min)
4] Pandemonium Architecture - el. gtr., live electronics
and tape (11 min.)
5] Minimal Surface - el. gtr., "slide" and tape
(5 min.)
6] Memory Riot - el. gtr., digital delay and tape (18
min.)
Produced in collaboration with Radio-Canada and INA /GRM (France)
recording: Justin Time Records JTR 8464-2 - Strange
Attractors - Tim Brady, guitar solo
Mercury Fountain (1993)- 6 minutes
electric guitar solo (scordatura)
Commissioned by the CBC Stereo programme Two New Hours
recording: Justin Time Records JTR 8445-2 - Scenarios - Tim Brady, guitar solo
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously (1993) - 8 minutes
electric guitar and digital electronics
recording: Justin Time Records JTR 8445-2 - Scenarios - Tim Brady, guitar solo
LOUD solo (1993) - 7 minutes
electric guitar and digital electronics
recording: Justin Time Records JTR 8445-2 - Scenarios - Tim Brady, guitar solo
Time Lapse Exposure (1992) - 9 minutes
electric guitar and digital delay
recording: Justin Time Records JTR 8440-2 - Imaginary Guitars - Tim Brady, guitar solo
Dead of Winter (1991) - 11 minutes
electric guitar and digital electronics
recording: Justin Time Records JTR 8440-2 - Imaginary Guitars - Tim Brady, guitar solo
Imaginary Guitars (1991) - 8 minutes
electric guitar, digital electronics and tape
Commissioned by the CBC Stereo programme Two New Hours
recording: Justin Time Records JTR 8440-2 - Imaginary Guitars - Tim Brady, guitar solo
Symphony in Two Parts (1989) - 15 minutes
electric guitar and tape
Commissioned by the CBC Stereo programme Two New Hours
recording: Justin Time Records JTR 8440-2 - Imaginary Guitars - Tim Brady, guitar solo
see also: Twenty Quarter Inch Jacks - multiple guitars
Keyboard
The Year Just Past (1995) - 1.5 minutes
solo piano
Commissioned by pianist Barbara Pritchard, Toronto, for the project
One Minute Masterpieces
Reaching Past (1986) - 14 minutes
harpsichord and tape
Commissioned by harpsichordist Vivienne Spiteri
recording: Société nouvelle d'enregistrement SNE
542 CD - New Music for Harpsichord
from Canada and Holland - Vivienne Spiteri, harpsichord
Lyric (for piano solo) (1983) - 7 minutes
piano solo
Rudolphe Matthieu award for solo chamber music - 1st prize (CAPAC
- 1985)
Piano Fantasy in Three Movements (1982) - 25 minutes
piano solo
William St. Clair-Low award for chamber music - 2nd prize (CAPAC
- 1983)
Piano Music 1978: I - IV (1978) - 13 minutes
solo piano
See also:
Doubling (Chamber music)
The Songline (mvt. 2 - piano solo - 7 minutes)
(Chamber music)
The Spontaneous Sonata Project (chamber music)
Vocal music / opera
We're Hardcore - 28 minutes (2010)
for solo soprano and chamber orchestra
1.1.1.1/1.1.1.0/perc/piano/strings: 2.1.1.1
A series of 7 songs, with texts by Gordon Downie (of The Tragically Hip)
Commissioned by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
15 Stages in the Search for Radium and Love (2009) - 40 minutes
(see also "Orchestra with soloist")
Text by Douglas Burnet Smith: "Sister Prometheus" - on Marie Curie
A song-cycle with theatrical performance aspects
fl.,ob.,cl.,bsn.,hr.,tpt.,tbn.,perc.,pno., 2 vlns., vla., vlc., db.
Soprano solo
Commissioned by the AVENTA Ensemble for soprano Janice Jackson
The Salome Dancer (1997 - 2005) - 90 minutes
A chamber opera in two acts, based in part on events in the life
of dancer Maud Allan (1873 - 1956)
music: Tim Brady / libretto - John Sobol
Cast: soprano, tenor, 2 baritones
Ensemble: piano/sampler, percussion, electric guitar, viola,
soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, electronics and tape
Commissioned by NUMUS Concerts
Three Cities in the Life
of Dr. Norman Bethune (2002
- 2003) - 50 minutes
a chamber opera in three scenes for solo voice and ensemble
solo baritone, string quartet, electric guitar with electronics,
piano, percussion, saxophone and tape
Text from Norman Bethune, Dorthey Lisvesay, Raphael Alberti,
and Lu Xun. The work is a portait of the last five years in the
life of Canadian surgeon, political activist and humanitarian
Norman Bethune, who died in 1939 in China.
Commissioned by Radio-Canada for the Bradyworks ensemble.
recording: Ambiances magnétiques AM 139 - Three Cities
in the Life of Dr. Norman Bethune - Bradyworks + Michael
Donovan
As It Happened (1999) - 29 minutes
2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, 2 percussion, electric
& acoustic bass (1 player), tape, and 12 portable CD players.
Text: CBC Radio interview (from the show "As it happens")
of Linda MacDonald, a woman who memory was erased with LSD and
electroshock therapy treatments at the Allan Hospital in Montreal
in 1963 in experiments funded by the CIA and the Canadian Government.
Commissioned by NUMUS Concerts for the Mirror Image Vocal Ensemble
Waiata Tohutohu (1998) - 19 minutes
mezzo-soprano, electric guitar and live electronics
text: 19th - century Maori protest song (sung in Maori)
recording: Justin Time Records JTR 8484/5-2 - 10 Collaborations
- Tim Brady, solo guitar, Annie Tremblay - voice
The Knife Thrower's Partner (1997) - 25 minutes
mezzo soprano, piano, percussion, cello, soprano and tenor saxophone
(or clarinet & b. cl.)
text - poem by Douglas Burnet Smith
Revolutionary Songs (1993 - 94) - 38 minutes
soprano, electric guitar (w/electronics), piano, percussion,
saxophone, cello,
electroacoustic tape music (Bradyworks)
texts: A.Blok, A. Jacinto, C. Desmoulins, Florian, R.Pedro, E.
Cardenal
6 songs based on texts from the Russian, Angolan, French and
Nicaraguan revolutions.
recording: Justin Time Records JTR 84593-2 - Revolutionary
Songs - Tim Brady / Bradyworks
Walker Songs (1990) - 11 minutes
soprano solo
text: John C. Walker
recording: Justin Time Records JTR 84593-2 - Revolutionary
Songs - Tim Brady / Bradyworks
Ranei Te Take (1988) - 18 minutes
soprano, electric guitar (w/electronics), piano/synth., percussion
text: Keri Hulme, from the novel The Bone People
Four Songs and an Intermezzo (1979) - 15 minutes
soprano, classical guitar, flute, cello, percussion
text: by the composer
See also: Scatter - guitar and voice (chamber music)
En amour, en hiver - (orchestra with soloist)
Tape solo music
public space / private music (2001) - 4 minutes
tape / CD / installation work commissioned by the Centre for
Contemporary Art in Glasgow, Scotland
