Kyle Gann

Kyle Gann (born 1955) is a composer and music critic born in Dallas, Texas. As a critic for The Village Voice and other publications he is a supporter of progressive music including such Downtown movements as postminimalism and totalism. As a composer his works fall generally into three categories:

Major Works

• As the Day Is Long (Revisited) for flute, clarinet, keyboard sampler, synthesizer, and fretless bass (2005)
• Unquiet Night for Disklavier (computer-driven acoustic piano) (2004)
• Private Dances for piano (2000/04)
• The Watermelon Cargo, microtonal chamber opera for six singers, three synthesizers, flute, fretless bass, and drummer (2002-3)
• Cinderella's Bad Magic, microtonal chamber opera for six singers, three synthesizers, flute, and fretless bass (2001-2)
• Transcendental Sonnets for chorus and orchestra (2001-2)
• The Planets (Sun, Moon, Venus, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune so far) for flute, oboe, alto saxophone, bassoon, viola, contrabass, synthesizer, and percussion (1994-2001)
• Hovenweep for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello (2000)
• Time Does Not Exist for piano (2000)
• "Last Chance" Sonata for clarinet and piano (1999)
• Custer and Sitting Bull for speaker, synthesizer, and soundfile (1996-99)
• The Disappearance of All Holy Things from this Once So Promising World for orchestra (1998)
• Snake Dance No. 2 for five percussionists (1994)
• Desert Sonata for piano (1994)
• I'itoi Variations for two pianos (1985)
• Long Night for three pianos (1980-81)