The Janus ReMixes
A full-length CD of computer music. St. Paul: The American Composers Forum/ Innova Records CD532, 1999.

Selections:

• Narcissus ReMix
• Mt. Moriah ReMix
• Dead White Males ReMix
• Triple ReMix
• Anesthesia ReMix
• Elegy ReMix
• Sargasso ReMix
• Scipio ReMix
• Tlön ReMix
• Chameleon ReMix
• Janus ReMix
  

Selection:

• Dead White Males ReMix
  

Selections:

• Salmagundi
• Scrape: Threaded Rods
• Bow: Tam Trees
• 3 Ictus
• Strike: 3/2+5:2 Groove
• Pluck: Koto
• 16 Things
• Stroke: Nails
• Strike: Dulcimer Groove
• S-tog (S-tog is an excerpt from a live, 90-minute performance with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company on February 20, 1993.)
  

The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree
A full-length CD of jazz standards and original compositions for two pianos performed by Mark Applebaum and Bob Applebaum ; Innova CD565. St. Paul: The American Composers Forum/Innova Records, 2002. Circle Surround encoded for 5-channel reproduction (stereo compatible).

Selections:

• Footprints
• Beautiful Love
• Buffalo Wings
• Stella by Starlight
• Caravan
• Tornado Food
• 8 Years
• Funkallero
• Titled
• Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
• All Blues
• There Is No Greater Love

Selection:

• Entre Funérailles IV

"Mark Applebaum excels at reconciling apparent opposites. He's a rebel—easily the longest-haired professor at Stanford—and a highly-respected pedagogue. He creates electroacoustic sound sculptures from mundane pieces of junk—nuts, bolts, wire, springs, and the like—then proceeds to coax sublimely surreal sounds from them. Most importantly, Applebaum performs a breathtaking balancing act between the profound appreciation for sound and soundmaking that informs his compositions and the wit that gives them a particularly Applebaumian luster.

"Applebaum is every bit as rich in range as he is in attributes. Intellectual Property's title track displays his command of pianistic elements (the man plays a wicked jazz piano), both composed and improvised, using a specially modified Yamaha Disklavier, while Pre-Composition utilizes only human voice to create an internal dialogue that will be all-too-familiar to anyone with writer’s block. Other compositions (including Mouseketier Praxis, which showcases Applebaum's command of the mighty Mouseketier, one of his most powerful electroacoustic sculptures) explore the interface between electronic and acoustic sound sources in a thoroughly kaleidoscopic manner. The all-star line-up includes Steven Schick and the Paul Dresher Ensemble. In the world of Intellectual Property, anything that vibrates is fair game. And when Applebaum plays, he plays to win."

Selections Include:

• Intellectual Property I
• Plundergraphic
• Ferneyhough ReMix
• Mouseketier Praxis
• Scipio Wakes Up
• Pre-Composition

Mark Applebaum: Catfish
A full-length CD of chamber works on Tzadik featuring performances by Shannon Wettstein, Helen Bledsoe, Steven Schick, Ivan Manzanilla, Paul Dresher, Thomas Rosenkranz, Terry Longshore, Brett Reed, Aiyun Huang, Christopher Jones, Ann Yi, Harvey Sollberger, Mark Applebaum, and others.

John Zorn writes:

"A former student of Brian Ferneyhough, Mark Applebaum straddles the two worlds of modern classical complexity and improvisational insanity. As one would expect, this first CD devoted to his work is an eclectic compendium of homemade electro-percussion, orchestral fireworks, virtuoso solo pieces and cartoon cut-ups. Intense, but always with a sick Californian sense of humor, Catfish is a vexing and delightful listening experience."

Selections Include:

• Ferneyhough ReMix
• Janus
• Omnibus Etude
• Entre Funérailles IV
• Licensed to Fail
• Meditation
• Catfish
• Discipline V—From Saturn to Alabama: Travels in Outer Space
• Snagglepuss ReMix

Selection:

• Omnibus Etude

Digital Cutup Lounge: Network Effects
Live performances in Hong Kong with Digital Cutup Lounge as well as DCL remixes of "The Janus ReMixes". Gogo Records GOGODCL-002-0302, 2002.

Selections:

• Intro Chill
• Tlön ReMix
• Triple ReMix
• Everblue

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Selections Include:

• Martian Anthropology 1•2•3
• Skumfiduser! (for orchestra + tape)
• Dead White Males
• Triple Concerto

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Selections Include:

• Sargasso (83+) (cello)
• Narcissus (marimba)
• Elegy (piano)
• Elegy (carillon)
• Neo-Tribes (alto saxophone)
• Entre Funérailles II (vibraphone)
• Disciplines I-V (piano)

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Selections Include:

• 20 (string quartet)
• Agitprop (concerto for mouseketier & big band)
• Sum=Parts cycle:
  • 56 1/2 ft. (chamber orchestra)
  • Authenticity (trumpet)
  • Integrity (2 percussion & piano)
  • Depth (trombone & contrabass)
  • Merit (wind quintet)
  • Seriousness (string trio)
  • 56 1/2 ft. (reprise; chamber orchestra)

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CD1 Selections Include:

• The Bible without God (music for a 2005 collboration with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company)
• Garden of Memory (2004)
• The Essl Museum (2002)

CD2 Selections Include:

• Wired Gardens (2003)
• The Mind Altering Concert (2005)

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Selections Include:

• The Blue Cloak (mouseketier solo with sextet)
• DNA (guitar)
• Landscape (violin, cello, piano)
• Go Dog, Go! (2 percussion)
• Asylum (percussion solo and nonet)

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Selection:

• Variations on Variations on a Theme by Mozart

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Selections Include:

• Sock Monkey (orchestra)
• Magnetic North (brass quintet, percussion, and mouseketier solo)
• The Composer's Middle Period (sextet)
• Variations on Variations on a Theme by Mozart (stereo version of a multi-channel work)
• Martian Anthropology 7•8•9 (sextet of violin, bass clarinet, keyboards, electronic percussion)
• Entre Funérailles I (trumpet)
• Theme in Search of Variations (percussion trio)
• Theme in Search of Variations II (quintet)
• Theme in Search of Variations III (quartet)
• On the Nature of the Modern Age (piano duo with electronics)

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Selections Include:

• There's No Sound in My Head (documentary)
• Metaphysics Mix (45 performance extracts)
• Metaphysics Score (scrolling 8:00)
• Metaphysics Score (scrolling 16:00)
• Metaphysics Stills (48 images; high resolution images can be viewed on a computer)

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Selections Include:

• 30 (12 players)
• The First Decade (solo)
• The Second Decade (quartet)
• The Third Decade (septet)
• The First & Second Decades (solo+quartet)
• The First & Third Decades (solo+septet)
• The Second & Third Decade (quartet+septet)

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Selection:

• Omnibus Etude

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Selection:

• On the Nature of the Modern Age (5.1 audio version)

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Selection:

• Catfish

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Selection:

• DNA

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• Catfish

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• Curb Weight Surgical Field

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• Medium

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Selections Include:

• Three Unlikely Corporate Sponsorships
  • Nestlé
  • General Motors
  • Halliburton
• Skeletons in the Closet
• Speed Dating
• The Plate of Transition Nourishes the Chameleon Appetite
• Clicktrack

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• Dead White Males (18’) 2 flutes (1 doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, 3 percussionists, piano, harp, strings
  
• Lament (4’) string orchestra
• Skumfiduser! (10') 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, 4 percussionists, strings, two-channel electronic tape
• Martian Anthropology 1•2•3 (12’) piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, english horn, Eb clarinet, 2 Bb clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, 7 percussionists, piano (doubling celesta), 2 harps, strings, sound-sculpture soloist
• Sock Monkey (10’) piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, 4 percussionists, piano, 2 harps, strings
  
• Concerto for Florist and Orchestra (17’) performance florist and large orchestra: piccolo, 2 flutes, alto flute, 2 oboes, english horn, Eb clarenet, 3 Bb clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 2 trumpets in C, trumpet in Bb, 2 trombones, 2 bass trombones, tuba, 6 percussionists, celesta, piano, 2 harps, strings
• Xenophobe: In Memory of Democracy (5’) 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 Bb clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets in C, 3 trombones, 1 percussion, strings

• Triple Concerto (14’) SSAATTBB, piano, percussion, and contrabass soloists, contertante of 2 percussionists, guitar, and harp
• Martian Anthropology 4•5•6 (15') Opera Scene for SATB, 4 dancers, 4 actors, 2 violins, viola, cello, contrabass, percussion, electric guitar, midi robot orchestra of the Logos Foundation (Gent, Blegium)
• Wristwatch: Alien Argot choir—any number of voices (4 or more)

• Ambitus (6’) tuba and piccolo soloists, flutes 1 & 2, oboe, Eb clarinet, Bb clarinets 1, 2, & 3, bass clarinet, bassoon, alto saxophone 1 & 2, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, trumpets 1, 2, & 3, horns 1, 2, 3, & 4, trombones 1 & 2, bass trombone, euphonium, percussion 1, 2, & 3
• Agitprop (16’) concerto for sound-sculpture and jazz orchestra (5 saxophones—2 altos, 2 tenors, baritone—4 Bb trumpets, 4 trombones, piano, guitar, bass, drums, percussion/vibes)

• Sum = Parts (28’) A seven-work cycle for chamber orchestra:
  • 56 1/2 ft. (4’) chamber orchestra
  • Authenticity (2’) trumpet
  • Integrity (6’) 2 percussion and piano
  • Depth (4’) trombone, contrabass
  • Merit (3’) wind quintet
  • Seriousness (5’) string trio
  • 56 1/2 ft. (reprise) (4’) chamber orchestra
• 56 1/2 ft. (4’) flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, 2 percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello, contrabass
  
• Janus (14’) flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, 2 violins, viola, cello, contrabass
• Nepotism (9’) 4 percussionists, violin, viola, cello, contrabass
• Catfish (6’) percussion ensemble (trio, sextet, etc.; written as a trio, its three parts can be doubled, tripled, etc.)
• Scipio Wakes Up and Smells the Coffee (12’) six players performing on violin, bassoon, two electronic keyboards, electronic drumset, electronic marimba, six electro-acoustic sound-sculptures
• Martian Anthropology 7•8•9 (12’) for the Paul Dresher Ensemble—six players performing on violin, bass clarinet, two electronic keyboards, electronic drumset, electronic marimba
• Merit (3’) wind quintet
• Attention Span (8’) string trio interrupted by television-watcher accompanied by piano
• "That Ain’t No Jello Mold" (8’) piano, contrabass, and ten persons reciting texts
• Asylum (20’) percussion soloist, flute, clarinet, horn, trombone, guitar, violin, viola, cello, contrabass
• The Blue Cloak (22’) soloist with live electronics, flute, clarinet, cello, percussion, piano, dedicated piano interior player
• Magnetic North (14’) soloist with live electronics plus brass quintet and optional percussion
• Identity Destruction Sport (4’) percussion, electric guitar, 2 violins, viola, cello, contrabass
• Accretion/Deletion (4’) 2 violins, viola, cello, contrabass
• Wristwatch: Geology three or more performers tapping two stones, optional instrumental or vocal soloist
• Wristwatch: Meridian players, performing in canon, respond to glyphs appearing on the face of custom wristwatches (when passed by the second hand)
• Wristwatch: Rabbit Hole players, performing in canon, respond to glyphs appearing on the face of custom wristwatches (when passed by the second hand)
• Wristwatch: Speed Dating players, performing in canon, respond to glyphs appearing on the face of custom wristwatches (when passed by the second hand)
• Wristwatch: Control Freak players, performing in canon, respond to glyphs appearing on the face of custom wristwatches (when passed by the second hand)
• 48 Objects (2’) 16 players, each with 3 objects
• Sixteen (3’) 16 players
• Mobile for Paper (1’) performers with one or more pieces of paper
• The Composer's Middle Period (3’) oboe, bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone, violin, cello
• Theme in Search of Variations II (4’) bass clarinet (doubling clarinet), percussion, piano, violin, cello
• Straitjacket (14’) solo percussion and percussion quartet
• Coat Room (1’) octet (performable as one or more simultaneous duos): violin duo, clarinet duo, tuba duo, accordion duo
• Rabbit Hole (15’) flute, trumpet, violin, viola, cello, 3 percussion
• 30 (10’) percussion ensemble of 12 players (divided into three simultaneous pieces: solo, quartet, and septet)
• The Third Decade (10’) percussion septet
• Clicktrack (14’) twelve (amateur or professional) percussionists responding to individual clicktracks
• Speed Dating (14’) flute, clarinet, trombone, percussion, piano, violin, cello, and contrabass
• Control Freak (10’) singer, oboe, clarinet, piano, violin, viola, cello, and contrabass
• Control Freak 2 (10’) singer, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, piano, percussion, violin, and cello
• Control Freak 3 (10’) singer, flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, viola, cello, and contrabass
• Control Freak 4 (10’) singer, flute, oboe, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, viola, and cello
• Control Freak 5 (10’) singer, flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, and cello
• Venture Capital Punishment (Pre-Apocalyptic Etudes) (60’) flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola, & cello with composed rituals
• QWERTY (7’) flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola, & cello with composed rituals
• Mantra Rites (7’) flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, & cello
• Janus Rites (7’) flute, clarinet, percussion, violin, viola, & cello
• Inflorescence Rites (7’) clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola, & cello
• Beta Rites (6’) flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, viola, & cello
• Third Rites (6’) flute, percussion, piano, violin, viola, & cello
• Accretion Rites (6’) flute, clarinet, piano, violin, viola, & cello
• Syncresis Rites (7’) flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, & viola

• The Second Decade (10’) percussion quartet
• Medium (~15’) pictographic score for any four players
• Theme in Search of Variations III (4’) flute (doubling alto & piccolo), trumpet, piano, percussion
• column facing on 3 behind lintel (17’) 2 percussionists, piano, bass clarinet; players recite texts
• Mt. Moriah (30’) string quartet
• 20 (24’) string quartet
• Dead Name (10’) string quartet
• 1:00 (1’) string quartet
• Darmstadt Kindergarten (5’) string quartet
• Flashlight (15’) string quartet
• Administocracy (20’) baritone voice, bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone
• Hymn (2’) saxophone quartet (SATB)
  
• Gauntlet (17’) percussion quartet

• Seriousness (5’) string trio
• Integrity (6’) 2 percussion and piano
• Tlön (6’) 3 conductors and no players
• Meditation (6’) piano six hands
• 7 one-minute canons (7’) flute, vibraphone, cello
• Jetsam (15’) violin, cello, piano
• Landscape (6’) violin, cello, piano
• Theme in Search of Variations (3’) percussion trio
• Catfish (6’) percussion trio; see "Chamber"
  

• Go, Dog. Go! (15’) two percussionists
• Gone, Dog. Gone! (9’) two percussionists
• Ferneyhough ReMix (Affection Aphorism 1) (2’) 2 percussionists & 2-channel tape
• Sticks and Stones (8’) piano, bass clarinet
• On the Nature of the Modern Age (12’) piano duo & live electronics
• Unholy & Surreal (6’) two pianos
• Depth (4’) trombone, contrabass
• Speed Date (4’) violin, cello
• Curb Weight Surgical Field (5’) duo for grand piano and two players
• Coat Room (1’) octet (performable as one or more simultaneous duos): violin duo, clarinet duo, tuba duo, accordion duo
• 50 Things (2’) two violins
• Springtime for Travis and Andy (16.3") electric guitar & percussion
• More or Less (6’) violin & pre-recorded violin (or violin duo)

• Neo-Tribes (6’) alto saxophone
  
• The Plate of Transition Nourishes the Chameleon Appetite (4’-6’) violin
• Anesthesia (+83) (4') viola
• Sargasso (83+) (4')cello
• Narcissus:Strata/Panacea (10’) marimba
• Authenticity (2’) trumpet
• Entre Funérailles I (2') trumpet
• Entre Funérailles II (6’) vibraphone
• Entre Funérailles IV (5’) flute
• Cadenza (6’) piano (with 6 notes prepared)
• Disciplines (28’) piano
• Discipline V: From Saturn to Alabama: Travels in Outer Space (6') piano
• Penumbra (22’) piano
• Omnibus Etude (3’) piano
• Elegy (6’) carillon or piano
• DNA (7’) guitar
• Pause (2’) piano
• Aphasia (9’) vocalist or actor (performing sign language) with tape
• The First Decade (10’) amplified percussion
• Composition Machine #1 (10’) percussion
• Care Package soloist playing with or on various idiosyncratic objects belonging to a yellow lacuqer box
• Tricks (3.5’) card trick synchronized to 2-channel sound
• More or Less (6’) violin & pre-recorded violin (or violin duo)

• Zero-One (7’) mousetrap, an electroacoustic sound-sculpture
• Scipio Wakes Up and Smells the Coffee (12’) six players performing on violin, bassoon, two electronic keyboards, electronic drumset, electronic marimba, six electroacoustic sound-sculptures (cross-listed above in "chamber")
• Ferneyhough ReMix (Affection Aphorism 1) (2’) two percussionists & 2-channel tape
• Echolalia (4’) 22 amplified Dadaist rituals, electronically transformed and diffused by a second performer
• Plundergraphic (5’) for 1 or more acoustic instruments with live electronics, 8-channel tape, and live sound diffusion
• Glass Bead Game (4’) for the LOGOS Foundation (Gent, Belgium) robot orchestra: piperola, ake, pianola, vibi, tubi, klung, troms, thunderwood, springers, and drippers
• Mousetrap Music (69’) a CD of electroacoustic sound-sculpture improvisations
• The Janus ReMixes (61’) a CD of digital remixes of original acoustic works
• Snagglepuss ReMix (3’) a remix of John Zorn's/Naked City's "Snagglepuss"; for 2-channel electronic playback
• Mouseketier Praxis (24') four mouseketier (electroacoustic sound-sculpture) improvisations with live electronics
• Licensed to Fail (5’) for two sound-sculptures; with Paul Dresher (quadrachord)
• Aphoristic Fragment (1’) for 2-channel electronic playback
• Feldhausen (5’) for 2-channel electronic playback
• Suicides (1956, 1970) (3’) for 2-channel electronic playback
• Variations on Variations on a Theme by Mozart (6’) for 4-channel electronic playback
• Three Unlikely Corporate Sponsorships (16’) sound poetry for 4-channel electronic playback in three movements: I. Nestlé; II. General Motors; III. Halliburton.
• Pre-Composition (12’) for 8-channel electronic playback
• List (12’) for 8-channel electronic playback
• Skeletons in the Closet (variable duration) for 8-channel sound
• Catastrophe (4’) for 2-channel electronic playback
• Sandman (5’) for 2-channel electronic playback
• Canoe Patron (6’) PowerPoint animation with 2-channel audio
• Meditation 67º C (35’) 2-channel audio
• That Brainwave Chick a collaboration with Paras Kaul involving the transformation of neural activity into sound in live performance
  

• The Metaphysics of Notation a gallery/museum installation of 12 leaves of pictographs (totaling 70 horzinontal feet) and 2 hanging mobiles, for any number of players
• 40 Cryptograms pictographic score
• The Bible without God (34’) Dance score for 16 players plus electro-acoustic sound-sculpture soloist with live electronics
• S-tog for any number of players
• Concerto for Florist & Ensemble for performance florist with 2 percussion, piano (doubling sound-sculpture with live electronics), cello (doubling electric celleto & contrabass), clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), guitar (doubling electric guitar, electric bass, and live electronics), and quadrachord sound-sculpture with live electronics (doubling electric guitar)
• 5:3 for 8 cracklebox players and 2 dice rollers
• 9:4 composed theater for 4 players at tables and 2 conductors
• Circulation a process piece for any number of players
• Packing List for the Brian Ferneyhough Circus Deposition (aka Fargo Argot) text piece
• Intellectual Property I (8’) for disklavier and pianist
• Quadrivium B: Home Economics, Acting, Sexual Education, Wood Shop for piano
• "Dr. Applebaum, why don’t you use your powers for good and not for evil? They laughed at me at the university, ellipses." for piano
• H.L.T.R.? (How long ’til the reception) for piano and video
• 9 Lives for jazz rhythm trio plus optional soloist(s)
• 58'20" for piano, viola, contrabass, and trombone
  

• Andy
• Blues Out, Blues In
• Buffalo Wings (+ big band arrangement by Wayne Wallace)
• Carolyn
• 8 Years
• 50
• Fragment for Mark
• Garden of Eden
• Hymn
• I Miss You Already
• Jamie & Sylvie
• Joanie
• John Cage Lunchbox
• Joji
• Melancholy
• 9 Lives
• Quasi-Semi-Pseudo-Crypto
• Rosalie
• Serendipity
• Syrup
• Those Hearts
• Titled
• Tornado Food (+ big band arrangement by Rick Walsh)
• Uncle Bert
• You’re So Great