Nine musical compositions: Altazor; Bugs in amber; Metonymy; Moondrunk and suntired; Orlando; Simple as blackbird pie; The glow; Time and the garden; Truthiness

Composition portfolio submitted for degree: Altazor, for SSAATTBB with words by Vicente Huidobro (English translation by Eliot Weinberger) (2011); Bugs in amber, for harpsichord, piano, synthesizer (3 movements) (2012); Metonymy (The clamor of birds), for electric guitar, max/MSP, and tenor with words by Ilankō Atikal (translated by R. Parthasarathy; adapted by Marissa Grunes) (2010); Moondrunk and suntired, for celeste, flute, piano (2 movements) (2012); Orlando, for viola and live processed video (max/MSP/jitter) (2011); Simple as blackbird pie, for orchestra (2011); The glow, for orchestra (2012); Time and the garden, for soprano and piano with words by Samuel Orchart Beeton (adapted by Ryan Harper), James I, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot (5 movements) (2011); Truthiness, for piano and max/MSP with words by Sarah Palin, Bill O'Reilly, Keith Olbermann, Glenn Beck, et al. (2011).