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More Rivers (photo by Jonas Gerg)

More Rivers

Environment, Piano Solo

Un fleuve sans fin / A River Without End (photo by Les Argonautes)

Un fleuve sans fin…

Environment, Piano Solo

Let's Sing Our Songs (photo by David Beale)

Let’s Sing Our Songs

Choir

Parul Thacker. The Book of the Time-Travellers of the Worlds: The One by Whom All Live, Who Lives by None. 2023-24.

The Book of the Time-Travellers

Art Installation, Environment, Tape

Letters

Letters

Mental Health, Musical/Theatre, Voice

Fractures (song cycle by Frank Horvat)

Fractures

Environment, Piano, Song, Voice

All that remains: Residual Moments (composed by Frank Horvat)

All that remains: Residual…

Art Installation, Chamber, Mental Health

I Am Ice (photo by Frank Horvat)

I Am Ice

Choir, Environment

An Auditory Survey Of The Last Days Of The Holocene (graphic by Brad Cherwin)

An Auditory Survey of the Last…

Art Installation, Environment, Percussion

Magnificent Roots (photo by Rob Wicks)

Magnificent Roots

Environment, Orchestra, Strings

Anatomy of the Recovering Brain (photo by Chris Schramm)

Anatomy of the Recovering Brain

Bass Clarinet, Mental Health, Tape

A Village of Landscapes (composed by Frank Horvat) - album cover

A Village of Landscapes

Bassoon, Environment, Piano, Tape

The Spirits That Haunt Us composed by Frank Horvat (photo by Anton Darius on Unsplash)

The Spirits That Haunt Us

Bassoon, Flute, Mental Health, Woodwinds

Memories of Self-Isolation composed by Frank Horvat (photo by Mario Purisic)

Memories of Self-Isolation

Choir, Large Ensemble, Mental Health, Voice

Hope composition by Frank Horvat (photo by Aaron Burden)

Hope

Cello, String Quartet, Viola, Violin

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