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DORIAN WALLACE

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Compositions & Projects

I compose music across concert, theatrical, electronic, and community-based contexts, often centering political memory, collective agency, and experimental forms.
Many scores are available for non-commercial use. Performances and inquiries are welcome.
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Featured & Current Work

Laeh Su Tel! (2025)
 -Part 1 – Psychology In A New Key
 -Part 2 – A Healing Sound For The People!​
  • Fully improvised solo piano session
  • Each track is inspired by protest and liberation songs
  • Includes original takes and alternate bonus tracks
Psychology In A New Key
A Healing Sound For The People!
Part 1
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Part 2
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​​Manusa (2018)
  • ​Concerto for solo cello and string orchestra
  • Dedicated to Bangladeshi secular writers and survivors of political violence
  • Structured around the Five Stages of Grief (Kubler-Ross)
Manusa tells a human story of facing political violence. Composed for cellist Nicholas Finch, it honors those targeted for exercising free speech in Bangladesh since 2013. The work also speaks to more recent acts of mass violence, using the Kübler-Ross Five Stages of Grief model as an organizing musical principle.
"Manusa" for solo cello and orchestra
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Upcoming Project(s)
Liberation Music Therapy
teaching workshop

Rhinoceros
solo piano and open instrumentation

The Archive

Browse All Works

Solo & Small Forces
Large Ensemble
Vocal & Opera
Jazz Ensemble
Chamber Music
Electronic / Media Works
Solo & Small Forces
Laeh Su Tel! – Improvised Piano Series (2025)
Psychology In A New Key
A Healing Sound For The People!
Ditch-It-All Harmolodics
Thingness/Impermanence
🎧 Listen · 🎬 Watch

IT IS ONE-HUNDRED SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT (2020)
Solo piano
🎬 Watch · 📄 Score

d4mn_k!d: intelligence_boils_down_to_curiosity (2018)
Tape, cell phone feedback, and unspecified instrument(s)
🎬 Watch · 📄 Score

Give Me a Second (2018)
Piano
🎬 Watch

He’s A Monster (2016)
Piano
🎧 Listen

Charcoal (2016)
Commissioned by Diane Skerbec
Piano
📄 Score

“Fuck You” Motif (2014)
Open source melody
📄 Score

Pupa (2013)
Solo violin
📄 Score

Reflection. Knowledge. Harmony. (2012)
Piano
🎧 Listen

Piano Trio No. 1 (2007)
Violin, cello, piano
🎧 Listen · 📄 Score
Vocal & Opera
Cause of Disunion (2025)
Solo baritone and piano
🎧 Listen

Fantômas (2023)
Voice and MIDI instruments
🎧 Listen

Sunday Dinners (2022)
Commissioned by White Snake Projects
Voice and piano
🎧 Listen

Fear and Loathing in the Pandemic (2020)
Virtual opera
🎬 Watch

The Temptation of St. Anthony (2016)
Commissioned by John Sanborn
Three solo voices, choir, and string orchestra
🎧 Listen

The Rest !s Sh!t: Stories from the Microchasm (2016)
Commissioned by Experiments In Opera
🎬 Watch

Mem Zadik Resh (2015)
SATB voices
🎧 Listen · 📄 Score
​
A Letter To My Wife (2013)
Soprano, flute, violin, piano
🎧 Listen
Chamber Music
Seed Deck: The Poor Person’s Composition Game! (2020)
Open instrumentation
📄 Score

The Human | …if a wolf should come out of the forest… III (2019)
Narrator and piano quintet
🎬 Watch · 📄 Score

Everywhere or Nowhere (2019)
String trio
🎧 Listen

Starling Song (2018)
Violin and piano
🎧 Listen

HackThisSite (2018)
Commissioned by Filament Duo
Percussion duo, electronics, cell phone feedback
ℹ️ Information

Good Bye (2018)
Kensaku Shinohara commission
Keyboard, bass, percussion, electronics
ℹ️ Information

The Wolf Twin Murders (2017)
Two trombones, dancer, soundtrack
📄 Score

When Five Eyes Are Watching (2016)
Violin, piano, cell phone feedback
🎧 Listen

They Are the Right Road (2016)
Unspecified instrumentation
📄 Score

A Bottle Into the Cosmic Ocean (2016)
Unspecified instrumentation
🎬 Watch · 📄 Score

12 Planets (2016)
Improvisational ensemble
🎧 Listen

The Great Lakes Variations (2015)
Clarinet, violin, cello, piano
📄 Score

Skepticism and Imagination (2015)
Percussion quartet
📄 Score

If They Won’t Let Us Dream, We Won’t Let Them Sleep (2014)
String quartet
📄 Score

Little River Grace (2014)
String quartet
🎬 Watch · 📄 Score

Embryo: Genesis (2013)
Violin and electronics
🎧 Listen

…we can make tunnels… (2013)
🎬 Watch

Imago (2013)
Violin, electronics, drum set
🎧 Listen

Mahaway: Spring Eternal (2013)
String quartet, piano, percussion
📄 Score
Large Ensemble
Fan the Flames of Discontent (2020)
Wage-earners cantata
🎬 Watch

Manusa (2018)
Solo cello and string orchestra
🎧 Listen · 🎬 Watch

We Are Legion (2015)
Mixed chamber orchestra and electronics
🎧 Listen · 📄 Score

The Fifth of November (2015)
Baroque ensemble and narrator
🎧 Listen · 📄 Score
​
World in the Next Galaxy: Jyotish and Magic (2015)
4 to 30 musicians
📄 Score
Jazz Ensemble
Fuck. The. System. (2014)
Large jazz ensemble
📄 Score

…tremors… (2013)
Large jazz ensemble
📄 Score

The Star-Spangled Banner (2013)
Arrangement for large jazz ensemble
📄 Score

You Are My Sunshine (2013)
Arrangement for large jazz ensemble
📄 Score

Perets-Tanst (2013)
Commissioned by Frank London
📄 Score

Tenth Intervention: Mineral Engine (2011)
Large jazz ensemble
📄 Score

I Remember to Forget (2010)
Large jazz ensemble
🎧 Listen

Barney Barnica (2009)
Large jazz ensemble
🎧 Listen
​
Alban (2009)
Large jazz ensemble
🎧 Listen
Electronic / Media Works
Happy Birthday (42) (2025)
Manipulated recordings
🎧 Listen

Fantômas (2023)
Voice and MIDI instruments
🎧 Listen

Cancelvania: Plunderphonics Halloween (2021)
Manipulated recordings
🎧 Listen

HART (2018)
Tape
📄 Score (zip file)

Claus-trophobic (2017)
Manipulated recordings
🎧 Listen

The Flag Burning Variations (2016)
Pre-recorded electronics
🎧 Listen

Crom Liberates the Monarch (2016)
Manipulated recordings
🎧 Listen

Nychthemero (2014)
Electronics with Trystero
🎧 Listen

Living Room (2014)
Electronics with Trystero
🎧 Listen

Secular Meditations (2014)
Electronics
🎧 Listen

Looking Toward the Stone (2011)
Manipulated recordings
🎧 Listen

Honey (2010)
Manipulated recording
🎧 Listen

Dark Matter (2009)
Word-processor speech setting
📄 Score

Laeh Su Tel! (2025)
- Psychology In A New Key
- A Healing Sound For The People!
- Ditch-It-All Harmolodics
- Thingness/Impermanence

album series
LISTEN * WATCH

Fear and Loathing in the Pandemic: A Virtual Opera (2020)
film
WATCH

IT IS ONE-HUNDRED SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT (2020)
piano
WATCH * SCORE

d4mn_k!d: intelligence_boils_down_to_curiosity (2018)
Commissioned by Precarious Sounds // Sounding Sanctuary Conference
tape, cell phone feedback, and unspecified instrument(s)
WATCH * SCORE

Give Me a Second (2018)
Commissioned by John Sanborn
piano
WATCH

He's A Monster (2016)
piano
LISTEN

Charcoal (2016)
Commissioned by Diane Skerbec
piano
SCORE

"Fuck You" motif (2014)
open source melody
SCORE

Pupa (2013)
Commissioned by Kim Neal Nofsinger

solo violin
SCORE

Reflection. Knowledge. Harmony. (2012)
piano
LISTEN
Vocal
Cause of Disunion  (2025)
solo baritone and piano
LISTEN
​

Fantômas (2023)
Voice and MIDI instruments

Sunday Dinners (2022)
Commissioned by White Snake Projects
Lyrics by Leslie Lamar Parker
Voice and piano
​LISTEN

Fear and Loathing in the Pandemic (2020)
opera gonzo

The Temptation of St. Anthony
(or... Tony's Troubles) (2016)

Commissioned by John Sanborn
3 solo Voices, choir, and string orchestra
OFFICIAL TRAILER * LISTEN

The Rest !s Sh!t:
Stories from the Microchasm (2016)

Commissioned by Experiments In Opera
[with Trystero]
WATCH

Mem Zadik Resh (2015)
Commissioned by Composers Concordance
SATB voices
LISTEN * SCORE

A Letter To My Wife (2013)
Commissioned by Tenth Intervention
soprano, flute, violin, and piano
Chamber
Seed Deck: The poor persons composition game! (2020)
open instrumentation

The Human | [if a wolf should come out of the forest] III (2019)
Commissioned by Tenth Intervention
with Kyra Sims, Lainie Fefferman, and Evan Williams
narrator and piano quintet

Everywhere or nowhere (2019)
Commissioned by the Ali Forney Center and Michael Spencer Phillips
string trio

Starling Song (2018)
violin and piano
LISTEN

HackThisSite (2018)
Commissioned by Filament Duo
percussion duo, electronics, and cell phone feedback
INFORMATION

Good Bye (2018)
Commissioned by Kensaku Shinohara
keyboard, bass, percussion, and electronics
INFORMATION

The Wolf Twin Murders (2017)
Commissioned by Tenth Intervention
2 trombones, dancer, and soundtrack
SCORE

when Five Eyes are watching (2016)
Commissioned by The Response Project
violin, piano, and cell phone feedback
LISTEN

They Are the Right Road (2016)
Commissioned by Biome Arts
unspecified instrumentation
SCORE

a bottle into the cosmic ocean (2016)
Commissioned by Science Friday
unspecified instrumentation and tape
WATCH * SCORE

12 Planets (2016)
improvisational ensemble
LISTEN

The Great Lakes Variations (2015)
Commissioned by Paperwing Ensemble
clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
SCORE

Skepticism and Imagination:
The subtle machinery of awe (2015)

Commissioned by Composers Concordance
percussion quartet
SCORE

If They Won't Let Us Dream,
We Won't Let Them Sleep (2014)

Commissioned by 1685
string quartet
SCORE

Little River Grace (2014)
Commissioned by Tenth Intervention
string quartet
WATCH * SCORE

Embryo: Genesis [Pupa part III] (2013)
Commissioned by Tenth Intervention
violin and pre-recorded electronics
LISTEN

...we can make tunnels.. (2013)
Commissioned by Universidad de Costa Rica
unspecified instrument(s)
WATCH * SCORE

Imago [Pupa part II] (2013)
Commissioned by Tenth Intervention
violin, electronic processing, and drum set
LISTEN

MAHAWAY: Spring Eternal (2013)
Commissioned by Alison Cook Beatty Dance
string quartet, piano, and percussion
SCORE

Swan (2010)
Commissioned by TRIODance Collective
alto saxophone, violin, and piano

I Chose To Run, part zero (2009)
six to twenty musicians
SCORE

A Long Trip To Heredia (2009)
soprano saxophone and piano

Piano Trio, No. 1 (2007)
Commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra Piano Trio
violin, cello, and piano
LISTEN * SCORE
Large Ensemble
Fan the Flames of Discontent: A wage-earners cantata (2020)
Commissioned by Sing In Solidarity
With Bonita Oliver
Chorus and open instrumentation
WATCH

Manusa (2018)
Commissioned by Nicholas Finch
solo cello and string orchestra
LISTEN * WATCH

We Are Legion (2015)
Commissioned by Tenth Intervention
flute, 2 tenor saxophones, bassoon, amplified string quartet, piano/synth, electric bass, 2 drum sets, SATB voices, and pre-recorded electronics
LISTEN * SCORE

The Fifth of November (2015)
Commissioned by New Vintage Baroque
baroque chamber ensemble and narrator
LISTEN * SCORE

World in the Next Galaxy:
Jyotish and Magic (2015)
Commissioned by Composers Concordance
4 to 30 musicians
SCORE
Large Jazz Ensemble
Fuck. The. System. (2014)
Written for The Free Sound Ahn-somble
large jazz ensemble
SCORE

...tremors... (2013)
Written for The Free Sound Ahn-somble
large jazz ensemble
SCORE

The Star-Spangle Banner (2013)
Arranged for The Free Sound Ahn-somble
large jazz ensemble
SCORE

You Are My Sunshine (2013)
Arranged for The Free Sound Ahn-somble
large jazz ensemble

Perets-Tanst (2013)
Commissioned by Frank London
large jazz ensemble

Tenth Intervention: Mineral Engine (2011)
Written for The Free Sound Ahn-somble
large jazz ensemble
SCORE

I Remember To Forget (2010)
Written for The Free Sound Ahn-somble
large jazz ensemble

Barney Barnica (2009)
Written for The Free Sound Ahn-somble
large jazz ensemble

Alban (2009)
Written for The Free Sound Ahn-somble
large jazz ensemble
Electronic
Fantômas (2023)
Voice and midi instruments

HART (2018)
Commissioned by Diane Skerbec
tape
ZIP FILE

Claus-trophobic (2017)
manipulated recordings
LISTEN

The Flag Burning Variations (2016)
pre-recorded electronics

Crom Liberates the Monarch (2016)
Commissioned by Tenth Intervention
manipulated recordings
LISTEN

Nychthemero (2014)
[with Trystero]
electronics
LISTEN

Living Room (2014)
[with Trystero]
electronics
LISTEN

Secular Meditations (2014)
electronics
LISTEN

Looking Toward The Stone (2011)
manipulated recordings and electronics
LISTEN

Honey (2010)
Commissioned by TRIODance Collective
manipulated recording
LISTEN

Dark Matter (2009)
word processor speech setting
SCORE
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