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RECORDINGS
THE TICKING - meditations and such
SOME PEOPLE FLOAT - new solo work
BlueBlackDream -MAPS 2017
VERTICALSON - FIRES 2015
https://verticalson.bandcamp.com/album/verticalson-fires
NINENINE - HOMEWARD 2011
https://ninenine.bandcamp.com/
RAY-ROSAS PROJECT - STILL READINGS 2011
https://ray-rosasproject.bandcamp.com/
PAUL STEVEN RAY - PSYCHELOUNGE 2002
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANIEK-kJn7k
PAUL STEVEN RAY - SHINESPACE 2001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zpySKR_5dg
CHURCH OF VANISH 1997
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1YHzh8ku_w
SELECTED COMPOSITIONS
Opera/Multimedia
I WISH YOU WERE THERE WHEN I WAS THERE
LOOKING FOR THE BELLS(2018) - collaboration with video artist, Sandy Pliego
TRANSPORT(2017) - A meditation on the various methods of escape from the moment to moment, hour to hour, day to day reality.
GOOD NARROW NIGHT(2016) - inspired by M Theory. "there we are again and again on other worlds just a millimeter away" performed by Nicole Jenkins and Paul Steven Ray in the crypt at The Church of the Intercession, NYC
SPLIT ROCK(2014) - An act of absurd vandalism visited upon an ancient rock triggers responses from unrelated individuals including the memory of a near fatal auto accident, a murdered teenager watching footage of his own death, a sleepwalker's new language, and the oasis of family in the midst of chaos.
Soprano, 2 electric guitars, bass guitar, drums/percussion, laptop/electronics, keyboard, recorded text, video
performed by VERTICALSON with Brandon Ross at ShapeShifterLab
SLEEPERHOLD:LULU'S Revenge(2010) - A young woman is convinced of a correlation between the men she murders and the expansion of the cosmos.
Three voices, laptop, electronics, electric guitar, video
performed by Sharda Singh, Renesha Yusuff, Nobuko Hori, Stefeye, Paul Steven Ray at ISSUE PROJECT ROOM.
SALLY DISTANCE(2007) - prisoner of her studio apartment, Sally's only relationship to the world is through the internet and water/light rituals of her own devising.
Soprano, electric guitar, laptop, video
performed by Bora Yoon at GALAPAGOS ARTS SPACE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Li04D_nIxE
THE SKY JUST BEFORE YOUR ARRIVAL (2006) - laptop,electronics,video
performed by Paul Steven Ray at MONKEYTOWN
SOUNDART
WE KNOW NOW/AS CHILDREN WE KNEW THEN
DANCES LIKE A THIEF(2019) - digital sound
LETTER TO A STRANGER(2019) - digital sound
TRADING HATS(2019) - digital sound
CHAMBER WORKS
WAY BACK RAIN (2015)- composed for Ensemble Musica Nova's 60th birthday celebration for Amnon Wolman
for 'cello, tenor sax, piano, gong, electronics, wood.
IRON VS. CHROME (2014) - electric guitar trio for the RHHS guitar ensemble.
SMOKE PHOTOS (2008) - for piano, laptop, electric piccolo bass guitar
performed by Theresa Rosas, Oblaat,and Paul Steven Ray at The Brooklyn Conservatory.
I KNOW YOU'RE THERE. I CAN HEAR YOU BREATHING (2005) - moog synthesizer, laptop, e. guitar
performed by Paul Steven Ray and Theresa Rosas at the NOISE: Seen and Unseen Festival/Ontological Theater.