CONNOR SIMPSON | COMPOSER

List of Works

O Vos Omnes (2022)

string quartet (9')

Something which wanders and falls (2022)

Hypercube ensemble (6'15")

there are no people (2022)

duo for soprano and bass flute (ca. 5')

Wrong Chain (2022)

solo violin (8')

who know's if the moon's a balloon (2022)

Loadbang ensemble (3'30")

Noisy Bugle (2022)

noisybugle and live electronics (6')

the Memory of a Story (2022)

saxophone quartet (15')

Purple Gap (2022)

solo vibraphone (2')

Prancer (2021)

wind ensemble (7')

Scordatura (2021)

(ETTT) tuba and euphonium quartet and live electronics (4'10")

I quite like perfect fourths (2021)

duo for flute and Bb clarinet (1')

Invalid Validity (2021)

one or more instruments with fixed media (6'30")

ill (2021)

quadraphonic fixed media (9'30")

Exile (2021)

soprano and reed quintet (5')

Allargando (2021)

fixed media (4'30")

Buzzed (2021)

percussion quartet (6')

May the Lord Protect my Wealth (2020)

string quartet (5')

Mad Song (2020)

baritone voice and piano (5')

Decisive Purpose (2020)

duo for tuba and percussion

i shall imagine life (2020)

woodwind quintet (5')

Misunderstandings (2019)

solo multi-percussion (5')

panic (2019)

fixed media (4'46")

Lament (2019)

solo cello (30")

Insufficient Title (2019)

duo for flute and marimba (6')

Broken Tongue (2019)

solo piano (5')

there are no people

there are no people was written for SydeBoob Duo during their 2022 residency at Penn State.


Program Notes:

there are no people explores feelings of loneliness in crowded places. The work questions the existence of the unknown people who decorate a city. Those who we will never meet and will never know us.


there are no people

by Connor Simpson


There are no people in the cars which drive by me.

There are no people in the buildings I walk past.

empty

No

Blank


The sun beats down on empty mirrors,

Empty mirrors filled with the sky.

A beautiful, dying, unattainable expanse an arm’s length away.


Something overflowing with nothing,

Something which does not see me.


An empty city crowded with no one,

No one who comes from nowhere.

No one who has no name.

No one who I may never see again.

In the reflection in the eyes of no one,

I cannot see myself.



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If interested in performing this work, contact me at csimpsoncomposer@gmail.com.