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Erling Wold is a composer, aesthete and a bon vivant. Last year saw the premiere of two large works, his Missa Beati Notkeri Balbuli Sancti Galli Monachi in St Gallen, Switzerland, and his solo opera Mordake for tenor John Duykers in the San Francisco International Arts Festival. He is currently working on a noise-music collaboration with fognozzle, on a personal autobiographical theater piece detailing his corruption and death with the help of James Bisso, and on a violin sonata for the Denisova-Kornienko duo in Vienna. His dance opera Blinde Liebe, on a true crime story, was recently performed in Europe and the US with Palindrome Dance of Nürnberg Germany. His chamber works have been presented in Philadelphia by Relâche, in San Francisco and Santa Cruz by New Music Works, and by the San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble. He completed a residency at ODC Theater with a presentation of his opera Sub Pontio Pilato, an historical fantasy on the death and remembrance of Pontius Pilate (also performed in Austria), a chamber opera based on William Burroughs' early autobiographical novel Queer, and his critically acclaimed work A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil, based on the Max Ernst collage novel. The latter piece was given its European premiere in a German version by the Klagenfurter Ensemble in July of 2001 and toured to Max Ernst's hometown of Brühl. He has written a number of solo piano works, including Albrechts Flügel, premiered by Finnish pianist Marja Mutru and more recently Veracity, which he premiered. He has worked extensively with dancers in the US and Europe. He has written a number of pieces for a dancer-controlled interactive video and music system for Palindrome dance. He has also worked with Nesting Dolls in Los Angeles and San Francisco on several theater and dance projects, including 13 Versions of Surrender and I brought my hips to the table. Most recently he has co-composed the scores for several Deborah Slater Dance Theater projects with Thom Blum. He is an eclectic composer whose teachers include Gerard Grisey, Robert Gross, Andrew Imbrie and John Chowning, but who has also been called "the Eric Satie of Berkeley surrealist/minimalist electro-artrock" by the Village Voice. He composed the soundtracks for four Jon Jost films. There are currently seven CD and two DVD releases of his music, he was included in the first magazine/CD issue of the Leonardo Music Journal, and has had a number of works published by Tellus and the Just Intonation Network. He has published technical and artistic articles in several publications, including IEEE MultiMedia, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, SIGGRAPH, the Just Intonation Journal 1/1, IEEE Transactions on Computers and several books. He has six patents in musical signal processing. He holds a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley and was a researcher in signal processing and music synthesis at Yamaha Music Technologies before cofounding Muscle Fish LLC, an audio and music software company.

Title	Ensemble Type	Composed	Duration	Media
Albrechts Flügel	Keyboard		00:05:10	Albrechts Flügel
Two Orchestral Waltzes for Lynne	Orchestra	2009	00:06:25	Two Orchestral Waltzes for Lynne
On the Death of David Blakely	Orchestra	2008	00:03:50	On the Death of David Blakely
Baron Ochs	Orchestra	2007	00:22:00	Baron Ochs
Missa Beati Notkeri Balbuli Sancti Galli Monachi	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	2006	00:40:00	Missa Beati Notkeri Balbuli Sancti Galli Monachi
Brightness	Orchestra	2005	00:12:30	Brightness
Veracity	Keyboard	2004	00:08:30	Veracity
Sub Pontio Pilato	Opera/Theater	2002	02:15:00	Sub Pontio Pilato
Queer	Opera/Theater	2000	01:40:00	Queer
Little girl dreams of taking the veil, A	Opera/Theater	1994	00:55:00
A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil	Opera/Theater	1994	00:55:00	A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil

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Sub Pontio Pilato Label: Spooky Pooch Release year: 2003 Performers: John Duykers, Kerry Walsh, Ken Berry, Jonathan Khuner, etc John Duykers shines as Pontius Pilate in this epic surrealist opera covering his suicide and resurrection. Brightly scored for winds and synthesizers and percussion the opera filled with beautiful melodies, propulsive rhythms and washes of sound and color Further information: www.erlingwold.com Buy online: http://cdbaby.com/cd/erlingwold5
A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil Label: MinMax Release year: 2002 Performers: Ken Berry, Rachel Wylie, Deirdre McClure, Tod Brody, Melissa Vainio, Fred Morgan, Marja Mutru, Ellen Ruth Rose, Deborah Gwinn, Jim Cave, Ken Berry, Laurie Amat, Rachael Wylie Erling Wold’s "unique, breathtaking, and thoroughly unflawed" (Progression Magazine) chamber opera, "A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil," has been highly acclaimed. The San Francisco Chronicle writes that "what keeps it all together, finally, is Wold Further information: www.erlingwold.com Buy online: http://www.amazon.com/Little-Girl-Dreams-Taking-Veil/dp/B000077DDV
Queer Label: Spooky Pooch Release year: 2001 Performers: Trauma Flintstone, Ken Berry, Erling Wold, Ashley Adams, Tom Swafford, Jab, Marja Mutru, Deirdre McClure An adaptation of the Burroughs novel of the same name, Trauma Flintstone takes this opera by the reins and rides it hard through a landscape of drugs and desire in the expatriate Mexico of his youth. Wold crafts music whose delicate beauty glides in ju Further information: www.erlingwold.com Buy online: http://cdbaby.com/cd/erlingwold4
The Bed You Sleep In Label: Table of the Elements Release year: 1993 Performers: various A soundtrack for the movie by Jon Jost, a monothematic, moody atmosphere of regret and loss. Scored for a small country band with classical elements mixed with the processed sounds of sawmills. The sadness inherent in Wold's score is exquisitely poigna Further information: www.erlingwold.com Buy online: http://cdbaby.com/cd/erlingwold3
I Weep Label: Spooky Pooch Release year: 1990 Performers: Erling Wold Wold's second release for microtonal synthesizers and instruments covers even a wider range than his first (Music of Love). The CD includes settings of Antonin Artaud and Max Ernst texts and is marvelously eclectic. ...sophisticated tunings and nicely Further information: www.erlingwold.com Buy online: http://cdbaby.com/cd/erlingwold2
Music of Love Label: Spooky Pooch Release year: 1987 Performers: Erling Wold The Village Voice called it a delightful insouciance, but it's more informative to say it is a collection of microtonal electronic and instrumental tunes with some altered music boxes mixed in. ...an eclectic blend of orchestrations and idioms ..The wo Further information: www.erlingwold.com Buy online: http://cdbaby.com/cd/erlingwold1

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Sub Pontio Pilato

A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil

Queer

The Bed You Sleep In

I Weep

Music of Love