Selective Catalog + Scores by Joey Bargsten

Several musical scores are available for free download at Academia.edu. Additional performance parts and materials can be found at Archive.org, and more performance recordings and documentation are on SoundCloud, Vimeo, and YouTube. Selective catalog and CV. 

Conventional Ensembles

Nostalgias™ for Chamber Orchestra (2017). Score.

Electronic, Experimental, and Visual Media, Text

Three Microtonal Etudes for Bohlen-Pierce Synthesizer (“Storm Window Angels”)(2016). Score, patch, white paper, and more info here: Academia.edu and Wordpress.com.

OPERA (with Live Digital Media)

MelanchoLalaland™ (2015) 90 minutes. Full score, video documentation, synopsis, and press. Performance materials available for rental, serious inquiries only.

CONCERT ARIA  (Mezzo Soprano and Orchestra)

Casual (Sex) Friday™ (2015) 22 minutes. Intermezzo between acts of transmedia opera MelanchoLalaland™ (2015). Score, original story, audio recording featuring mezzo soprano Katharine Goeldner.

ORCHESTRA 

FakeMusic™ for Orchestra (2019) 13.5 minutes. Score, audio recording.

Symphonyx #4 "The Re-Branded" for Orchestra and Live Digital Media (2018) 21 minutes. I. PanGlossia™ (audio recording), II. Dance Nica™ (audio recording), and III. Nostalgias™

t00n mmix for Orchestra and Live Digital Media (2009) 11-26 minutes.(previously Tarot Cartoons) Score.

Symphonic Moods for Orchestra (1979) 12 minutes. Received ASCAP Foundation Grant for Young Composers [1979]; played by Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra under Raymond Harvey and featured at 14th Annual State University New Music Festival [September 1980]; broadcast on National Public Radio's International Concert Hall series [January 1981]; reviewed in High Fidelity/Musical America [January 1981]. Press, audio recording. Parts and score available for rental.

CHAMBER ORCESTRA

Sinfonia (1982) 26 minutes. Reading rehearsal given by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra under William McLaughlin [May 1982]; finalist, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Composer's Competition [1982].

VOCAL ENSEMBLE (using mobile pitch/tempo tracks)

Blue Hammer (2009) 9 minutes. Score of vocal ambience,  video wall, audio suite of incidental music/sound design of entire project, including vocal segments.

Memento Mori (2001) 11 minutes. Vocal score, recording of performance.

Paradoxa (1998) 6 minutes. Vocal score.

CHAMBER INSTRUMENTAL/VOCAL

SEMA: Rumi's Dance for solo piano (1987) 18 minutes. Score, recording of performance.

gymnopuppies ii for trumpet, viola, bass clarinet, and prepared piano (1983). Score.

Five Songs for soprano and piano (1982) 9 minutes. Score.

ELECTRONIC

The Bad Mind Time™ Digital Symphonies (1991-2005). Archive of 12 hours of electroacoustic experimentation. More information.

CONCEPTUAL OPERA 

Anatomy of Melancholy™, Do-It-Yourself opera for several vocalists, turba chorus, and live digital media (2005) 90 + minutes. Libretto • Performance Materials • DVD (SD). Selections performed at Future Music Oregon, University of Oregon (2004).

DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS

Bohlen-Pierce (Microtonal) Synthesizer. PureData patch for converting any MIDI keyboard to a microtonal device (2016). Overview, includes score to Three Microtonal Etudes (2016), audio recording.

The Kombo™. Motion-controlled quad theremin and sample player (2013).  Overview, video documentation.

CHAMBER INSTRUMENTAL/VOCAL—EXPERIMENTAL

Algoritmi del'Anima (Algorithms of the Soul™) (using mnotation™ random notation generation software) (2017). Two versions: 1) String Quartet, 2) Chamber Ensemble Score.

String Quartet (using mnotation™ random notation generation software) (2010) 26 minutes. Score.

Thunder, Perfect Mind for 15 performers bowing 3 grand pianos (1984) 7 minutes. Overview, score, and audio recording.

DIGITAL FILM + PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION

Ixion for brass trio  (using mNotation™ random notation generation software) and Stereoscopic Digital Film (2010) 9 minutes. Video documentation.

DIGITAL MEDIA

Bad Mind Time™ CD-ROM, interactive website, DVD (1995-2003). Overview, 2003 Version Online [requires Adobe Flash Player and Shockwave, will not function on iOS devices, does not work in Chrome], review of 2000 edition.

BOOK

Experimental Media Voodoo™: A Practicum for Experimental Sound, Visuals and text (Austin: Sentia Press, 2018). Download, online interactive version (requires Flash Player) and artist's book version (.pdf).

Hybrid Forms and Syncretic Horizons: Speculations on Experimental Digital Media (2011). Download, online interactive version (requires Flash Player) and artist's book version (.pdf).