2003 Istathenople 2002 Gates 2001 Sarkici/The Singer (film score) MKG Variations (guitar version) Flight Box 2000 It's been 80 years One for Eight Symphony No. 4 Sardis 1999 In Memoriam 9/17/99 MKG Variations (cello version) In White 1998 Academica 1997 Lines (clarinet piano version) Lines (violin piano version) Aphrodisiac (concert suite from film score) FEST < sonra   > önceki Arches (1994) First Performance June 1994 Present Music Kevin Stalheim, conductor Istanbul Modern Music Festival Istanbul, Turkey Instrumentation fl., cl., trpt., synth., vln., vlc. Duration 13' Listen Arches Program Notes Commissioned by Present Music with additional funding from the Tennessee Arts Council. In 1993 I wrote an orchestra piece titled Domes. Domes is important in the development of my music as with it I started to use more spiritual elements. It is built on a wash of very high string sounds slowly descending, again and again. It is religious in an abstract way--spiritual and perpetually longing. I was thinking about the shapes of domes in Rome and Istanbul. Since its premiere various arrangements have been performed by chamber orchestras and ensembles. After Domes, I wanted to compose a similar work written originally for a chamber group. With the encouragement of Kevin Stalheim, director of Present Music, came Arches. Most that I mentioned about Domes also describes Arches. It is built on a wash of string sounds and it is very spiritual. The descending high string sounds in Domes is transformed in Arches to be a perpetually descending four note figure in the middle register. The string sounds are enhanced by the synthesizer, which is the backbone of the ensemble. Trumpet has a very important role with its “Miles” mute.