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Video releases of my compositions
Zaum Box, seriers of ten videos with performances by Katelyn King (2016)
The Toy Robot's Mechanical Heart, performed by the Passepartout Duo (2017)
Compact discs of my compositions
Aeneas in the Underworld, by Christopher Adler (MicroFest Records, 2023)
Colin McAllister, guitar, and ensemble
City Lights and Other Stories, compositions by Christopher Adler (Liber Pulveris Recordings, 2019)
Christopher Adler, piano
Ecstatic Volutions in a Neon Haze, compositions by Christopher Adler Duo (innova recordings, 2008)
Epilogue for a Dark Day, compositions by Christopher Adler (Tzadik, 2004)
Recordings including my compositions
Toy. Toy. Toy. by Stacey Barelos (2023)
Including The Toy Robot's Mechanical Heart
Landscape Traces: New music for khaen, volume two, by Christopher Adler (Liber Pulveris, 2023)
Including Cowries, The Serpent's Dance (with Batya MacAdam-Somer, violin), and Tashi Delek,
and works by Jinhee Han, David Loeb, Peter Hager and Kevin Leomo
Polar Sounds (Cities and Memory, 2023)
Includes Sirens of the Pack Ice, for khaen and undersea soundscape 
Pines Long Slept in Sunshine(Liber Pulveris, 2022)
Single performed by Nief-Norf 
Metamorphoses, by Tasha Smith Godinez (Centaur Records, 2022)
including Diomedea, for khaen and harp
Contemporary Eclectic Music for the Piano, vol. 19, performed by Jeffrey Jacob (New Ariel Recordings, 2021)
including City Lights 1, Blues Nocturne, Air, and Chaetura from City Lights and Other Stories
Triangulations: New music for khaen volume one, by Christopher Adler (Liber Pulveris, 2020)
including Telemetary Lock and Five Cycles, and works by Yu Kuwabara, Sidney Marquez Boquiren, Vera Ivanona, Jeff Herriott, Christopher Burns, and David Loeb
Planetary Candidate, by Michi Wiancko (New Amsterdam, 2020)
including 010 machine states, for flute
Shine, by Lisa Cella and Stephen Bradley (Chen Li Music, 2018)
including 010 machine states, for flute
Symmetry | Reflection, by Novus Percutere (2015)
including Nongak, for percussion duo
Music for a New Century, by Sarah Plum (Blue Griffin, 2015)
including Violin Concerto
This Place / Our Body, by Morris Palter (double LP on Blue Leaf Records, 2013)
including Plenum Vortices
The Gaia Theory, by Omar Carmenates (Rattle Records, 2012)
including Once, in a Grove of Tamarisk
My performances of works by other composers
Nathan Hubbard, necessary downturn (compositions 2009-2020) (2023)
with Christopher Adler, piano
Austin Wintory and Susie Benchasil Seiter, Thai Cave Rescue original sound track (2022)
with Christopher Adler, various Thai instruments
David Loeb, World Winds II (Centaur Records, 2022)
with Christopher Adler, khaen, performing An Ancient Harbor and A Garden to Linger In
David Loeb, World Winds (Centaur Records, 2020)
with Christopher Adler, khaen, performing Karin: A Forest of Verses
Full Circle: NOISE Plays the Music of Stuart Saunders Smith (Centaur Records, 2017)
with Christopher Adler, piano
Travelogue: Music of David Loeb (Centaur Records, 2017)
with Christopher Adler, khaen, performing The Maltese Plaza in Fog
aires, by Juan Campoverde Q. (Liber Pulveris Recordings, 2014)
Christopher Adler, piano
NOISE Plays Burtner, by Matthew Burtner and NOISE (innova recordings, 2013)
with Christopher Adler, piano
Derek Keller, Impositions and Consequences (Tzadik TZ 8032, 2007)
with Christopher Adler, piano and mellotron
David Loeb, A Forest of Verses (Vienna Modern Masters VMM2054, 2009)
with Christopher Adler playing Karin: A Forest of Verses, for solo khaen, and Three Friends of Winter, for khaen and ensemble, with NOISE
David Loeb, The Silent Waterfall (Vienna Modern Masters VMM2048, 2007)
with Christopher Adler playing Kawagiri: Rivermist in Summer for solo khaen
Nathan Hubbard, (compositions 1998-2005) (Circumvention Records CS-121, 2006)
with Christopher Adler on piano and khaen
Nathan Hubbard, Skeleton Key Orchestra (Circumvention Records 039A-B, 2003)
with Christopher Adler on piano and conducting
Improvisations
Ur, by Gunther's Grass (Titicacaman Records, 2022)
Bastille Day and Other Lullabies, by Gunther's Grass (Titicacaman Records, 2017)
Midnight Sessions, by the Christopher Adler Trio (Liber Pulveris Recordings, 2015)
Never in the Future that Dawned Earlier On, by Gunther's Grass (Titicacaman Records, 2013)
with Marcelo Radulovich, Christopher Adler, Scott Walton, Charles Curtis and Marcos Fernandes
Mineralia, by the Alan Lechusza / Christopher Adler Duo (pfMENTUM, 2006)
Transcontinental, by the Christopher Adler Trio (Nine Winds, 2002)
Solo khaen improvisation aboard the ArtShip (Artship Recordings, 2002)
Live in Los Angeles, by the Christopher Adler Trio (2001)
Pleistocene, by the Alan Lechusza / Christopher Adler Duo (2000)
Improvisations appearing on selected tracks or compilations
Hu Jianbing's Sky, sheng improvisations by Hu Jianbing (Traditional Crossroads, 2013)
with Christopher Adler, piano, on Soul Mountain
Rubble 2, a compilation by the Trummerflora Collective (Accretions, 2006)
with Gunther's Grass (Marcelo Radulovich, hurdy-gurdy and Christopher Adler, khaen)

 

Listening room:

compositions

for on-line recordings of my compositions, see the links to individal on the Compositions page or visit my Youtube Playlist

improvisations

Jie Ma / Christopher Adler
Video from a house concert, October 24, 2020

Christopher Adler / Scott Walton / Nathan Hubbard
Video from January 17, 2013, University of San Diego

Gunther's Grass (duo with Marcelo Radulovich)
Video of Yourself Presents performance
additional audio examples on the Gunther's Grass myspace page

the Alan Lechusza / Christopher Adler Duo
Alan Lechusza, woodwinds, Christopher Adler, piano
Schorl, from Mineralia (complete 4:08) listen courtesy of pfMENTUM Records

the Christopher Adler Trio
Alan Lechusza, woodwinds, Christopher Adler, piano, Vikas Srivastava, drums
excerpts from Transcontinental, available from CDBaby

performances

Youtube Playlist of khaen performances | Youtube Playlist of piano performances

Cantéyodjayâ, by Olivier Messiaen
Christopher Adler, piano
watch the video

Multiplicity, by Adam Greene
Christopher Adler, piano
watch the video

Harawi, by Olivier Messiaen
with Stephanie Aston, soprano and Christopher Adler, piano, in live performance at the Universty of San Diego, April 24, 2015
watch the video playlist on youtube

The Ray and Its Shadow, by James Erber
with Lisa Cella, flute, Robert Zelickman, clarinet, Franklin Cox, cello, Christopher Adler, piano, and Colin McAllister, conductor
world premiere of revised version, performed at the 2015 soundON Festival of Modern Music, La Jolla, CA

listen on SoundCloud

Ashley, Christopher, Andy, by Nicholas Deyoe
with Ashley Walters, cello, Andy Bliss, percussion, and Christopher Adler, piano, in live performance at Northern Illinois University, Nov. 5, 2014
watch the video

Patterns in Wide Space, by Jeff Herriott
Christopher Adler, khaen, with electronics
Listen on the composer's website | Jeff's website

Emering from the Deep Mist, by David Loeb
Christopher Adler khaen
watch the video

Where Was I?, by Evan Ziporyn
with Ashley Walters, cello, Andy Bliss, percussion, and Christopher Adler, piano, in live performance at Northern Illinois University, Nov. 5, 2014
video mv. 1 | mv. 2 | mv. 3

angel music, by Sidney Marquez Boquiren
Christopher Adler, khaen, in live performances at the soundON Festival of Modern Music, June 16, 2007, and Adelphi University, March 12, 2011
listen on Instant Encore | video

windwork, by Christopher Burns
Christopher Adler, piano, in live performance at the soundON Festival of Modern Music, June 19, 2008
watch the video on youtube

Inchino, by Claus-steffen Mahnkopf
Performed by NOISE (Colin McAllister, guitar, Morris Palter, percussion, Christopher Adler, piano)
at the soundON Festival of Modern Music, 2010
Listen on the composer's website

Stems, by Alex Mincek
Christopher Adler, piano, performed at the University of San Diego, 2008
listen on the composer's website

Babaylan, by Sidney Marquez Boquiren
NOISE, with Christopher Adler, khaen, Lisa Cella, flute and Franklin Cox, cello, at Adlephi University, March 12, 2011
listen on Instant Encore

Misang Walang Salita, by Sidney Marquez Boquiren
with Christopher Adler and Sidney Marquez Boquiren, piano, and H. James Harkins, electronics
listen on Instant Encore

Working Group for Mathematics and Music
compositions and performances by Steve Gisby, Tom Johnson, Michael Winter, Christopher Adler, Samuel Vriezen and Brian Parks
University of Lille, concert video

Best Served Cold, by David Lipten
Christopher Adler, piano, in live performance at the University of San Diego, 2004
listen

Now is Your Only Chance, by H. James Harkins
Christopher Adler, piano, H. James Harkins, computer, in live performance at the University of Pennsylvania, 2004
listen (8:36), courtesy of H. James Harkins

Northeast Thai repertoire / khaen
Lai Sootsanaen
improvisation in a Northeast Thai style
watch

Phuthai
improvisation in a Lao style
watch

"Toei" suite
with the Ostrich Ensemble (Supeena Insee Adler, saw oo, and Tantikorn Khmasopa, phin)
watch video from the 2008 Switchboard Music Festival, San Francisco

Selected Thai classical repertoire
with the Ostrich Ensemble
listen


 

contact
adler@alum.mit.edu

Christopher Adler, University of San Diego Music Department, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, 92110-2492

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