Nicholas DalyCreator
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Music

  1. 2025–26Seawater
  2. 2026Curious Clicks
  3. 2026Call My Bluff
  4. 2026Leaps and Bounds
  5. 2025Crickets

Projects

  1. 2026Compositional Bestiary
  2. 2025–Awālim al-Mithāl

Writings

  1. 2026-08-19It's Not My Ship
  2. 2026-08-03Reference of Surety
  3. 2026-06-27Spheres of Peace, Spangled in Birdsong
  4. 2026-06-14Summer Thunderstorms
  5. 2026-05-27Windband Eulogy
  6. 2026-04-28Denny, Poet-Gardener
  7. 2026-04-18Rest
  8. 2026-04-16Leaps and Bounds
  9. All 109 texts

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Projects

  1. The Compositional Bestiary cover: a hand-drawn songbird, wild roses, and a fan of playing cards engraved in olive line-work on cream paper, titled "A Field Guide".

    Compositional Bestiary

    A field guide for the modern composer

    An interactive treasury of compositional techniques — an ever-expanding catalogue of methods, drawn as cards.

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  2. A small earthenware vessel, a brass pocket compass, a folding mirror, and a closed notebook arranged on a wooden table.

    Awālim al-Mithāl

    عوالم المثال

    Worlds of the Imaginal

    A multi-part cycle tracing the intertwined musical, linguistic, literary, and philosophical lineages of the Persian, Arabic, and Turkic worlds.

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