Neither / Either (2019)
for solo piano
Neither / Either is stripped from my quintet, Math Metal Meth Mouth, verbatim.
Written for my good friend, Anne Rainwater.
Math Metal Meth Mouth [M5] (2019)
quintet for four percussion and piano
Based on the breaking down of chemical compounds in the collective and individual.
Written for Dead Resonance and Anne Rainwater
Partials – Echo Artifact (2018)
Echo Artifact’s sophomore stint on the tension of wanting.
Greg Chudzik, Al Cerulo, Jude Traxler
Songs from the Infinite Plan – Brett William Dietz (2018)
Excerpts from Dietz’s collection of 15 intermediate mallet duets. Recorded at Louisiana State University.
Spiritual Gifts – Joe W. Moore, III (2018)
Joe Moore pens a beautiful collection of Bible-referenced miniatures for percussion quartet. Performed by the composer’s own group, Dead Resonance.
Canon Fodder – Chad Heiny (2017)
Chad Heiny’s work, Canon Fodder, was the first piece we tracked for Dead Resonance’s album, silence is not a transition. Fun times with a lot of drums.
Origin of Savagery – Brett William Dietz (2017)
Dead Resonance records Dietz’s Origin of Savagery – written for the group’s debut album, “silence is not a transition”.
Timber Remixed – Michael Gordon & Mantra Percussion (2016)
Traxler Studios (NYC) mixed and mastered Timber LIVE @ the 2014 Bang on a Can Marathon, Winter Garden, NYC. Released with Michael Gordon’s Timber Remixed, an A-list of experimental electronic artists on Cantaloupe Records (2016).
My Side of the Story – Andy Meyerson (2016)
Andy Meyerson “performs” my work, Structural Harm. Created at Traxler Studios (NYC), August 2015 for Slashsound Records.
Fourfold – Dead Resonance (2016)
Dead Resonance started as a remote composition project between Brett Dietz, Chad Heiny, Joe W. Moore III, and Jude Traxler. Fourfold is our “quadruple-music”.
CPU (EP) – Echo Artifact (2016)
CPU (a post-apocalyptic electronic opera for the end of the world, in one act.)
An original story told in fourteen songs.
Don’t Look Back – Jenny Olivia Johnson (2015)
We tracked great music by Jenny Olivia Johnson at Octaven Studios in Yonkers, NY for Innova Records.
Pieces for People – Paula Matthusen (2015)
Mantra Percussion & Jamie Jordan perform, The Days Are Nouns, for Paula Matthusen’s album, Pieces for People (2015). Recorded and mixed at Traxler Studios (NYC) for Innova Records.
Mantratronic (2015)
written for the Mantra Youth Percussion group’s inaugural season. Directed by Joe Bergen.
Public Transaction – Ian Williams (2015)
Mantra Percussion and Ian Williams perform the world premiere of his electro-acoustic work, Public Transaction, on the 2015 Ecstatic Music Festival in NYC.
Mantra @ So Studios (NYC)
Al Cerulo and Jude Traxler play a workshop version of Mantra’s new work with composer / guitarist Ian Williams.
CPU (Opera)
CPU (A post-apocalyptic electronic opera for the end of the world, in one act.)
Prologue:
‘Imagine the prison of repetition
A pitch-perfect perpetual misery
Awaiting each player ignition
Is a blanket of unusable memory’
Correlates – Joseph Van Hassel (2014)
Joey Van Hassel performs Stuart Saunders Smith’s glockenspiel solo, On: Empty, for his album, Correlates (2014). Recorded, mixed and mastered at Traxler Studios (NYC) for Soundest Recordings.
Little Did We Know (2014)
for violin and piano.
Written for Two Blind Mice (Anne Rainwater & Rick Shinozaki).
Elias Howe School – PS 51 Musicians (2014)
Recorded, engineered, mixed and mastered at Traxler Studios (NYC) under the direction of PS51 music teacher, Katie Traxler.