Music
Contemporary chamber ensemble
Trembling, open-voiced quartal harmonies and layered polyrhythms carry an ecstatic coming of age until the music is cut short by tragedy, mourning, and transformation.
Seawater — I. Personhood A driving movement in 3+3+2 that culminates in an encounter with the Simorgh, the mythical bird of Persian poetry.
Seawater — II. Yearning
String quartet
An exploration of the joys and interplay of logic and emotional expression.
Curious Clicks Built on a repeated, worrying figure that keeps being interrupted and picked up again.
Call My Bluff Hopeful trills, stifled attempts at flight, and the slow building of newfound courage.
Leaps and Bounds A cricket outside the window, transcribed for string quartet — insect timbre, interlocking tuplets, and a run of false endings.
Projects
Compositional Bestiary
A field guide for the modern composer
An interactive treasury of compositional techniques — an ever-expanding catalogue of methods, drawn as cards.
Awālim al-Mithāl
Worlds of the Imaginal
A multi-part cycle tracing the intertwined musical, linguistic, literary, and philosophical lineages of the Persian, Arabic, and Turkic worlds.
