Douglas O'Grady
Composer of acoustic and electronic music shaped through sound, structure, and transformation.
Musical Projects
Chamber Works
The Vermillion Rooster’s Ascension (with Greg Haynes), for riq, metal bowls, and live computer processing
Images du Nombre d’Or, multi-percussion solo with fixed digital media and video
Zircon Telecast, multi-percussion solo with fixed digital media
In Paradisum, for soprano, two violins, two celli (version for string orchestra available, with new introduction)
The Sound, for soprano and fixed digital media
11-Dimensional Supergravity, for flute, trombone, and fixed digital media
Moe’s Bit o’Blues, for solo trombone with fixed digital media
Fanfare for Brass, for brass ensemble with percussion
Prelude, Fantasy, and Scherzo, for euphonium, brass ensemble with percussion)
Strata, for oboe, Bb clarinet, and bassoon
Improvisation No. 1, for solo trombone
Interference Patterns, for solo flute
Metamagical Themas, for flute, violin, cello, and piano
Large Ensembles
Out of the Wreckage, for wind ensemble
iAlchemy, for orchestra and iPad ensemble (version for wind ensemble available)
Benedictus Mater, for SATB a cappella choir
Requiem, for chorus, winds, and percussion
Irradiations, for orchestra
The Conqueror Worm, for baritone voice and orchestra
Electronic Works
Scene From an Anxious Mind (two-channel digital media with video)
Ecstatic Abyss (two-channel digital media with video)
Universal Theory (two-channel digital media with video)
The Secrecy of Death (two-channel digital media)
Insignificant World (two-channel digital media with video)
Sculpture in Metal (two-channel digital media)
Mindstorm (two-channel digital media)
Time Canvas (two-channel digital media)
Canticle (a.k.a. Canticle of the Machine) (two-channel digital media)
Primordia (two-channel digital media)