Works — John P. Hastings

SELECT WORK - Please visit johnphastings.bandcamp.com to listen and purchase some of these items

2024 — South Cove Song (overlay) - sonic performance for the Mary Miss designed South Cove Park, in Battery Park City, NY, NY. Music direction by Aaron Meicht, featuring TILT Brass. Part of River to River Festival 2024.

2024 — City of Ashes - music for the dance ensemble, the Matthew Westerby Company, in collaboration with Bent Duo

2023 — Forest Song - outdoor performance for large ensemble. Supported by LMCC, UMEZ, NoMAA Grants for Individual Artists

2023 — Migratory Patterns - music for dance performance with Matthew Westerby Company. Created with Travis Just.

2023 — The Gathering - fixed media recording for Matthew Westerby Company. Created with Aaron Meicht.

2023 — Traces - (work-in-progress) performance, photographs, 3 channel video, audio recordings, and light boxes. Created with Benjamin Mayock.

2021 — Audible Biologicals - audio catalog, text pamphlet, video, and sculpture work that sonifies and utilizes invasive biological species.

2021 — Cloudsplitter - an outdoor work for brass ensemble, in honor of the abolitionist John Brown.
Supported by LMCC, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, Make Music NY and the NY Parks Dept.

2021 — The Former World - performance/ installation / LP / photobook / a collection of works and objects. Created with Benjamin Mayock.
Includes:
CRYSTALS (2019) - for performers with electronic loop boxes
Drones from The Former World (2019) - for resonating, open-tuned, acoustic guitars
STRATA (2017) - for performers with pre-recorded sound, debris, contact mics, electric toothbrush guitars
Spirals for Jettie (2017) - for clarinet and percussion. Written for Red Desert
Subfrequencies from The Former World (2017) - for stereo playback
Songs from The Former World (2016) - audio cassette score for realizing performance for acoustic guitar
Text Operations from The Former World (2016) - for four performers.

2020 — VVaves of VVagner - extended ambient re-interpretation of the Prelude to Wagner’s Das Rheingold:

2020 — Restless Nation - song written for Wormburner, an anthem for our pandemic times

2019 — Passages | Pasajes - site specific work for performers and electronic loop boxes. Supported by LMCC and NY Parks Dept.

2018 — Muscota Marsh Harmony - site specific work for 4 singers and pre-recorded sound on mobile speakers.

2016 — LUMEN Resonant Sound Space - performance installation for two players (5 hours) information here

2015 — Give the Drummer Some - for drummer and vinyl recording (11′)

2015 — Guitarmony - performance activity for two or more guitarists (16′) [score]

2014 — Pleasant Living in Planned Communities - rock band recording with Wormburner

2014 — Melody & Accompaniment - for two performers (open duration) [score]

2014 — a negation - instructions for anti-performance activity (open duration) [score]

2014 — Year of the Snake - for cassette tape and shoebox cassette player (9′) [audio]
Part of the suite, Folk Music

2014 — The Moon Shows No Light - for string instrument (22′)
Part of the suite, Folk Music

2014 — Pete Seeger in Monte Carlo - for banjo (15′) [video]
Part of the suite, Folk Music

2014 — Sonic Baptism - for 4 performers with stereo playback and magnetic tape recorders (25′) [documentation]
Immersive environment featuring sound, recorded text playback, live text performance in a ritualized atmosphere.

2013 — Singularity - Electronic music album produced with AndyK

2013 — Theory of Harmony - for 6 or more performers with white noise generators (open duration) [audio]
Commissioned by Dedalus Ensemble.

2013 — White (Vermont) - 6 performers with stereo playback (22′) [score] [audio]
Ergodic performance practice with environmental white noise from NE Vermont.

2013 — Oakland Shoreline Drone Space - score with performers situated in space on the Oakland, CA shoreline (75′) [audio]
Part of the series, Sonic Incursions

2012 — Red Hook Harmony - open score blending performers with ambient sound and scored harmony [score] [audio] [video]
Part of the series, Sonic Incursions

2012 — HUM 7 8 9 - for massed humming and singing performers at or near a power generation station or transformer
[score] [audio] [video]
Part of the series, Sonic Incursions

2012 — terce - for three percussionists (3’/9’/27’/81’/etc.) [score] [audio]
Premiered by the Rootstock Ensemble at the 2012 Other Minds Festival 17 Fellowship concert.

2011 — Negative Space - graphic score for any number of performers (open duration)
Score and audio can be found at the Experimental Music Yearbook

2011 — Structure (for Mies) - chamber ensemble with digital drone and field recordings (open duration)
A sonic accumulation based on rational properties in the work of architect Mies van der Rohe. Download audio here.
Performed as part of the lecture / installation by milligram office, Mies van der Rohe and Rhetoric of Structure. More
information here. Originally released on the netlabel Absence of Wax.

2010 — Symmetric Convergence - for 5 performers (open duration)
Instruments slowly converge on a singularity. As they do, microtones and aural beatings occur.

2010 — tone | field - for at least 5 performers (open duration) [score]
An interlocking web of tones and voice leading.

2010 — bells - for at least 4 players (open duration) [score]
An explosion or convergence of metallic sound, depending on its reading (can be performed in retrograde).

2010 — A Sound Map of the United States - stereo playback (45′)
Field recordings from across the United States, summer 2010. Originally released by Compost & Height:

2010 — For Barnett Newman - at least 8 performers (open duration) [score] [audio]
An ode to artist Barnett Newman, where a soft tapestry of instrumental noise is offset by a tonal zip from the
ensemble.

2010 — Duo for Accordions - for two accordions (2′) commissioned by Machine Project and the Hammer Museum

2010 — Tuba Duo - for two tubas (2′) commissioned by Machine Project and the Hammer Museum

2010 — vibrations - for 3 sustaining instruments and sine wave (18′) [score]
Based on Dan Flavin’s The Nominal Three, the piece reveals a new look at minimal structuring and greatly reductive
tonal resources resulting in aleatoric phasing and beat patterns.

2009 — The Rocketship in Langley Park - for large ensemble (15’)
Concerns the fusion of disparate, highly charged elements (arrayed in a just intonation chord, based on Mersenne
Primes) into a single disappearing source (a kind of reverse engineering of branching harmony). Audio and score can be
found at the Experimental Music Yearbook

2009 — bands - for large ensemble (18’) [audio]
Using La Monte Young’s Composition No. 7 as a starting point, the piece slowly bends a perfect fifth into a myriad of
microtonal worlds. Premiered by the Dogstar Orchestra in June 2009.

2009 — The Broken Chord - installation [documentation]
Installation using field recordings and sine tones. Installed at Hahamongna Watershed Park, Pasadena, CA as part of
On the Trail of…. Curated by NewTown Arts.

2008 — Sonic Spiral - for 11 tunable instruments (17’)
A sound equivalent of the fibonacci series. Music and math in direct correlation. Released on bandcamp recording
Chamber Music.

2008 — Sonic Spiral - installation version [documentation]
Installed at SoundWalk 2008, Long Beach, CA.

2008 — desertum - for brass quintet and percussion quartet (14’ – 21’)
The dark shadow of an Earthly paradise. Released on bandcamp recording Chamber Music.

2008 — telluric currents - for large ensemble (13’)
The music of the spheres, sounded with a low Bb. Released on bandcamp recording Chamber Music.

2007 — Fjord - for contrabass quartet (12’) [score] [audio]
A study in shifting stasis.

2006 — THIAH (This House is a Home) for stereo playback (12’) [audio]
Field recordings and guitar feedback from an apartment in Los Angeles, CA.

2000 — Across the Divide - for stereo playback (4’) [audio]
A sonic triptych regarding longing and separation. Realized at the Virginia Center for Computer Music.

2000 — The Long Walk Home - primary songwriter and guitarist / producer on rock band album by Utris

Compositions have been performed at Klangraum – KUNSTRAUM / JAZZ-SCHMIEDE (Dusseldorf, Germany), Instants Chavirés (Paris, France), La Chapelle Gély (Montpellier, France), the wulf. (Los Angeles, CA), Roy O. Disney Hall (Valencia, CA), The Wild Beast Pavilion (Valencia, CA), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA), Meridian Gallery (San Francisco, CA), the LAB (San Francisco, CA), Festival of New American Music Sacramento State University, Sacramento, CA, Old Cabel Hall (Charlottesville, VA), Ontological-Hysteric Theater / Incubator Arts Project (New York, NY) Presents Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Glasslands Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Willow Place Auditorium / S.E.M. Ensemble (Brooklyn, NY), ISSUE Project Room (Brooklyn, NY), HERE Arts Center (New York, NY) & Roulette (Brooklyn, NY).

ENSEMBLE 303

I performed in a group called Ensemble 303 with Casey Thomas Anderson. The impetus of the group was to perform new and classic works in the experimental music tradition. We had six performances, including one of Cornelius Cardew’s Treatise. We self-released this and it can be found at CDBaby as well as iTunes. We have performed works by: George Brecht, Earle Brown, Ulrich Krieger, Michael Pisaro, Steve Reich, Tomas Schmit, Karlheinz Stockhausen, James Tenney, La Monte Young and Christian Wolff.

Rock and Roll

Wormburner: I play bass and guitar in the rock band Wormburner. Music can be found on Spotify, iTunes, etc.

UTRIS: The music for my old pop/rock band, Utris, can be found at CDBaby and iTunes.