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LeWitt Etudes
Dave Soldier & William Hooker
Adventures in group composition following artist Sol LeWitt
Featuring Rebecca Cherry, Kirk Knufke, Ayumi Ishito,
Hans Tammen, Alex Greene, Luke Stewart & Ken Filiano
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Motet: Harmony of the World
sung by the vocal ensemble Ekmeles. the music of the spheres according to The Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler

Caló
performed by Miranda Cuckson, six compositions for violin solo, with participation by Jose Moreno and Pedro Cortes

Jaleo
performed by Steven Beck, piano
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The book Music, Math & Mind,
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Kane & Soldier - February Meets Soldier String Quartet

February Meets Soldier String Quartet

Jonathan Kane on drums & guitar and Dave Soldier on violin wed overtone-drenched drones with Chicago blues, trance minimalism, jazz, no-wave, Haydn, and the American songbook.
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The Eighth Hour of Amduat


An opera from the world's oldest illustrated text, roughly 5000 years old, and the oldest surviving musical score. Heiroglyphs translated into Italian by Egyptologist Rita Lucarelli, music by Dave Soldier, starring Marshall Allen, leader of the Sun Ra Arkestra.
Dave Soldier - Zajal

Zajal
2019

Project on the birth of the pop song, which was in medieval southern Spain. Andalusian Arabic and Hebrew poetry and musicians from the flamenco, middle eastern, klezmer, Iranian, Greek and jazz worlds.
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Dave Soldier - Naked Revolution

Naked Revolution - A Socialist Realist Opera
2018

A chamber opera with artists Komar and Melamid on iconoclasm, the destruction of statures, drawn from immigrant dreams
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History of the Kropotkins
2017

A compliation of Kropotkin's songs with Lorette Velvette, Jonathan Kane, Dave Soldier, Maureen Tucker, Dog (Mark Deffenbaugh), Charlie Burnham, Mark Feldman, Alex Greene, Samm Bennett
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The Brainwave Music Project
2017

with Brad Garton: duos for improvisers and their EEG brainwaves,
featuring William Hooker, Margaret Lancaster, Terry Pender & Dan Truman
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Soldier Kane
2016

Jonathan Kane, drums & guitar, Dave Soldier, violin
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8th Hour of Anduat

The Eigth Hour of Amduat
2016

Opera for mezzosoprano, choir, improvising soloists, orchestra and electronics
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Animated version of the full opera
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Dean Swifts Satyrs for the Very Very Young

Dean Swift's Satyrs for the Very Very Young
2016

Satrical rhymes by Jonathan Swift, sung by Eliza Carthy with Robert Dick, flute, Richard Auldon Clark, viola, Stacey Shames, harp
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With Kurt Vonnegut
2015

Vonnegut and Soldier's song cycle, Ice-9 Ballads, and the radio opera, A Soldier's Story, performed by Kurt Vonnegut with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Richard Auldon Clark, conductor
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Smash Hits - Thai Elephant Orchestra
2015

Elephants in the Thai forest playing specially designed musical instruments.
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4color

In Four Color
2015

A compliation of pieces for string quartet performed by PUBLIQuartet and Soldier String Quartet
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piano

In Black & White
2015

A compliation of pieces for solo piano performed by Steven Beck
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Portents

The Kropotkins
Portents of Love

2015

Punk Memphis from the Krops
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organ

Organum
2012

Works for solo organ performed by the great Walter Hilse
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Thai Elephant Orchestra
Water Music
2011

The final recording by the grand Thai Elephant Orchestra
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The Complete Victrola Sessions
2011

Rebecca Cherry plays duos for violin and piano from the film, "The Violinist"
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The Kropotkins
Paradise Square
2009

punk Delta from the Krops with Lorette Velvette, Charlie Burnham, Dog, Jonathan Kane, Samm Bennett, Al X. Greene, Doug Easley, BJ Cole
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Yol K'u (Inside the Sun)
Mayan Mountain Music

CD & DVD set
2008

Dave Soldier & Alan Kushan coach compositions by Mayan schoolchildren in San Mateo Ixtatan, Guatemala
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Chamber Music (2 CD set)
2007

Compilation of chamber music featuring
Richard Auldon Clark, viola
Laura Seaton, violin
Erik Friedlander, cello

William Schimmel, accordion
Rebecca Cherry, violin, Michael Mizrahi, piano
Robert Dick, bass flute
Regina Carter, violin
Anne De Maranis, accordion
Dawn Avery, cello
Dave Soldier, el .guitar
Michael Swartz, alto saxophone
Walter Hilse, organ
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Da Hiphop Raskalz
2006

Music composed by 5-10 year old children in East Harlem, New York City and Watertown Massachusetts, coached by Dave Soldier
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with Kurt Vonnegut
Soldier Stories
2005 

a radio opera lyrics and narration by Kurt Vonnegut
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Inspect for Damaged Gods
Soldier String Quartet
2004 

Regina Carter, Dave Soldier, violins, Judith Insell viola, Dawn Avery, cello, Tiye' Giraud & Jimmy Justice, vocals, Tiye, small percussion, Jonathan Kane & Richard Bona, drums & bass
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Thai Elephant Orchestra
Elephonic Rhapsodies
2004

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Thai Elephant Orchestra
2001
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with Kurt Vonnegut
2001
Ice-9 Ballads

lyrics and narration by Kurt Vonnegut
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the Kropotkins
Five Points Crawl
2000

Lorette Velvette, Charlie Burnham, Dave Soldier, Dog, Jonathan Kane, Mo Tucker 
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Tangerine Awkestra
Aliens Took My Mom
2000

Music composed by 2-9 year old children in Fort Greene Brooklyn, coached by Dave Soldier & Katie Down
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with Komar and Melamid
The People's Choice Music
1997 

composed according to poll results
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Robert Dick & Soldier String Quartet
Jazz Standards on Mars
1997 

Robert Dick, flute
Regina Carter, Dave Soldier, violins, Judith Insell viola, Dawn Avery, cello
Richard Bona, Mark Dresser, Kermit Driscoll, bass
Valerie Naranjo Percussion
Ben Perowsky, Steve Arguelles, Drums

arrangements by Soldier
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The Kropotkins
1995

Lorette Velvette, Mark Feldman, Dave Soldier, Dog, Jonathan Kane, Samm Bennett
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Soldier String Quartet
She's Lightning When She Smiles
1994

vocals: Tiye' Giraud, Jason White, Bobby Radcliffe, Napua Davoy
strings: Laura Seaton, Dave Soldier (violin), Ron Lawrence, Mary Wooten
Lenny Pickett, sax & clarinet
Myra Melford, piano
Brad Jones, bass
Leroy Clouden, drums
arrangements by Soldier of blues 1926-56
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War Prayer
1994

Ultraviolet Railroad

Mark Feldman, violin
Erik Friedlander, cello
with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra
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Smut
1992 

Tiye Giraud, Napua Davoy, Wilbur Pauley, Ben Neill, Bob Bannister, Richard Auldon Clark, Jim Pugliese, Ron Bethea
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Soldier String Quartet
Sojourner Truth
1991 

Laura Seaton, Dave Soldier, Ron Lawrence, Michael Suchorsky (drums), Amina Claudine Myers and Shelley Hirsch, vocals 
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Romances From the Second Line
1990

Christopher O'Riley, piano
Walter Hilse, organ
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Soldier String Quartet
Sequence Girls
1988

Laura Seaton, Dave Soldier, violins; Ron Lawrence, viola; Mary Wooten, cello; Ratso Harris, bass; Michael Suchorsky, drums
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Miscellany or not on CDs

Matarile
for schoolchildren in Washington Heights and electronics

Marsh Fugue
for outdoor swamp sounds

songs perfromed by zebra finches on tiny synthesizers
Ciribini
Brass
Gamelan

song written by Da Hiphop Raksalz for their concert at Great Performers at Lincoln Center
We're famous (just like Mary J Blige)

Brainwave music (played by EEGs through a computer, with Brad Garton)
Trio for Brainwaves and Percussion
Alpha Wave Mix
Reading Stephen Colbert
Humans play elephant music! The Composer's Concordance Orchestra plays Thung Kwian Sunrise, improvised by the Thai Elephant Orchestra. Wade Ripka transcribed, and I orchestrated.

Thung Kwian Sunrise (for human orchestra)

Letter to Ausonius
performed by Sequitur

Truckstop Girls
performed by the Kropotkins live on WFMU radio

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