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Updated July 15, 2026

Welcome!
Here’s my bio, reel, and email.
This is what I’m up to right now as a composer and percussionist:

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I worked with Tom Jenkinson aka Squarepusher to transcribe and engrave his new tracks K7 Museum and K8 Park off his new album Kammerkoncert. The videos are out now, and thus my love of stemlets and preference for beaming over rests is made public. Please be kind in the comments.

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Alarm Will Sound wins 2026 GRAMMY

Our recording of Donnacha Dennehey’s incredible Land of Winter (which I wrote about here, and which you can listen to in full here) won Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance.

More here on Alarm Will Sound’s website.

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Isorhythmic Gardens by Chris P. Thompson

New Music - Study #3 on "Moments of Symmetry"

Read on Substack

Isorythmic Gardens

a new work in my series of studies for piano in dynamic just intonation, via my Substack.

This one continues to explore tunings that are known as “Moments of Symmetry” (MOS for short) — specific scales that emerge when stacking a single generating interval.

That sounds complicated but it’s not too bad: our common 5, 7, and 12 note scales (which you may know as pentatonic, diatonic, and chromatic) are all MOS…

The next MOS after 12 is 17.

 

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Next up:

July 21-25, 2026: Mizzou International Composer’s Festival
Music by JLin, Karola Obermueller, Utku Asuroglu, Brittany J. Green.
World premieres of 8 new works by 2026 resident composers.
Missouri Theatre, Columbia MO

August 21, 2026: Time:Spans
Georg Friedrick Haas: in vain
Mary Flagler Cary Hall, Dimenna Center, NYC

September 2, 2026: Rocket City New Music
Sound Bites: A progressive art walk of Lowe Mill
This program will feature the world premiere of my new work Plain Hunt.
The Lowe Mill, Huntsville, AL

September 18, 2026: Beethovenfest, Bonn
Brittany J. Green & Alarm Will Sound
This program will feature my work Hanabi for Sinfonietta.

October 2, 2026: Homecoming: New Acoustica
Alarm Will Sound
Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, Rochester, NY

October 14-18, 2026: Music for 18 Musicians: Staged Variations
Steve Reich Ensemble, Alan Pierson, Alarm Will Sound
Park Avenue Armory, NYC

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Hello from Brooklyn

Now working close to home in Dumbo (that’s Brooklyn). With the Manhattan Bridge footpath right outside the window (👋).
You might still catch me lurking at the library from time to time as well.

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Alarm Will Sound’s long-awaited Acoustica follow-up is coming out this year. This is now well over a decade in the making and it is finally done and heading to mastering. I contributed in several ways: a co-arrangement of my track Hanabi with our bassist Miles Brown, full arrangements of Aphex Twin’s minipops and Gameshow Outpatient’s Vole Sweeps Up!, percussion arrangement for Jlin’s Black Origami, and I also played percussion on the whole record.

We’ll be performing the album in full at Eastman (a homecoming for the band, which was founded there 25 years ago!) on October 2nd.

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I write a very intense blog, called Music and Math and Feelings. It’s a good way to got a lot of stuff off my chest, and acts as a portfolio of writing, videos, and compositions that lives on Substack indefinitely for your perusal. Like, for example:

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Just back from teaching at the inaugural San Francisco Percussion Academy in June. This is a program of the San Francisco Conservatory for promising young percussion students.

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Broadway: I’ve been playing Wicked on Broadway as a guest percussionist off and on for sixteen years now and my honest assessment of the movie is that I loved it and was so glad it was extremely faithful to the show except they made the flying monkeys all evil at the end which is just wrong. The monkeys are kind, gentle creatures who are misunderstood because of their appearance and thus metaphorical mirror-images of Elphaba herself. Obviously. Also way too much CGI.

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Bonus:
I have turned the ubiquitous percussionist “black towel” into a personal exploration of knitting technique. My latest bespoke creation is a two-color brioche: reversible, squishy, luxurious:


This is where the social media links used to be. If you would like to get friendly updates on interesting gigs and official music releases via email a few times a year, you can just email me and I’ll add you to that list.