rachel epperly
composer-performer / improviser / performance artist /writer
SELECTED COMPOSITIONS/PERFORMANCES
[*] designates myself as performer
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2024
*USELESS ARMOR, performance artist, pop tabs
2023
TWILIGHTS, voice, loop pedal, singing bowl, bells, thunder tube, contact mic, synth, accordion | 30 mins
premiered at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
*RACHEL/COMPOSER/EMPRESS, performance artist*, props, laptop, AI voice| 20 mins
premiered at California Institute of the Arts
Before the Banquet, voice*, electronics | 5 mins
Awake, voice*, 4 strings, electronics | 7 mins
Red, voice, 4 strings, electronics | 10 mins
Sea Ghosts, voice*, loop pedal* | 6 mins
Strike, voice*, 4 strings, electronics | 5 mins
Boat of Cypress, voice*, 4 strings, djembe | 6 mins
premiered at California Institute of the Arts
*MANTRA, performance art performance, film | 5 hours/5 days
CRYSTAL | 1 hour
MIRROR | 1 hour
EARTH | 1 hour
BLOOD | 1 hour
BLOSSOM | 1 hour
featured as installation at California Institute of the Arts
*CHIRP with Drew Sensue-Weinstein | 12 mins
voice*, accordion*, guiro*, microphone*, guitar, field recordings
premiered at California Institute of the Arts
2021-22
TANTALUS, with M.A. Harms and Jeonghyeon Joo | 45 mins
voice*, autoharp, haegeum, electronics*
premiered at The Open Book
Letter to my body, voice*, singing bowls, guitar/pedals | 5 mins
performed and composed at Art Omi: Music 2022
Learning to Unsee, voice*, accordion*, loop pedal* | 10 mins
Wild Pink, voice*, loop pedal*, electronics* | 8 mins
Go Where the Road Ends, voice*, percussion, piano*, accordion* | 4 mins
premiered at California Institute of the Arts
Forest Deep, voice*, audience members | 4 mins
premiered at California Institute of the Art\
2020
SPIDERLILY
Hunger, voice*, 4 strings, electronics | 7 mins
Surrender Sleep, voice*, electronics | 5 mins
Love Song, voice*, electronics | 6 mins
Siren Song I, voice*, electronics | 2 mins
Siren Song II, voice*, electronics | 4 mins
premiered at California Institute of the Arts
2019
Chant of the Ghost Pipes, piano four hands and melodica | 5 mins
composed for and premiered at Gabriela Lena Frank Academy of Music by ZOFO
Learning to see
Chanting Blessings, voice*, accordion* | 5 mins
premiered at California Institute of the Arts
2018
GLOCKNROCK, piano, 2 percussionists | 6 mins
premiered at University of Michigan
GLOSSY WARS, orchestra | 5 mins
premiered by the University of Michigan Philharmonic Orchestra
SAVIOR, voice*, accordion* | 5 mins
premiered at University of Michigan
2017
Wind Sleepers, SATB Choir | 7 mins
Girly!, performance artist/voice*, glockenspiel, toy keyboard, toy drum set | 5 mins
premiered at 2017 Midwest Composers Symposium and So Percussion Summer Institute
Elixir Party, percussion quartet
premiered by So Percussion Ensemble at So Percussion Summer Institute
Webbed, bassoon, violin | 7 mins
commissioned by and performed by Leah Kohn and Niv Ashkenazi
One of an Other, voice*, guitar, pedals | 5 mins
featured on YEE EP (see below)
Untitled, piano*, guitar, vibraphone | 6 mins
featured on YEE EP (see below)
2016
I’M NOT WITH MYSELF, clarinet, piano, violin, flute | 6 mins
premiered at New Music on the Point, Atlantic Music Festival, and by Unheard-of//Ensemble
wait, winter, piano*, voice* | 8 mins
premiered at University of Michigan
To Our Wounds, voice*, string trio | 6 mins
commissioned and performed by Castalia Quartet (Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra Quartet) at Grand Rapids Art Museum
As We Come, solo voice* | 5 mins
premiered at University of Michigan
2015
Time Arrives, flute quartet | 6 mins
premiered at Fresh Inc. Festival
Appulse, piano*, 2 violins | 5 mins
premiered at the University of Michigan
2014
Still, orchestra | 3 mins
commissioned by and premiered by the Grand Rapids Symphony and Grand Rapids Ballet Company
RECORDINGS
2022
MY SKIN with Michael Echaniz, voice*, piano | 5 mins
improvisation recorded at Capitol Records
2018
YEE Extended Play with experimental improvisation trio Glitter Glam | 30 mins
released on Raisin Toast Records