Thomas Nicholson

Music

Ultramarine
2025 · 16 min
Solo harp in a modified 84-EDO tuning
for Cara Dawson
Enharmonium #1
2025 · 6 min
Bass flute, bass trombone, electric guitar, violin, two violas, contrabass
for Marc and Natalie
Crooked Dances
2025 · 15 min
Solo piano in 12-EDO
for Jared Redmond
Monotone-expansion
2024 · Open duration
Collaboration with Rebecca Lane and Sam Dunscombe
Open instrumentation with pre-recorded playback
Free and easy wandering
2024 · 23 min
SuperCollider
Night falls light fall
2024 · Open duration
Collaboration with Marc Sabat
Cello, live electronic processing in SuperCollider
for Lucy Railton
Doppelzelt
2023 · 30 min
Collaboration with Rebecca Lane
Quarter-tone bass flute, viola, electronic tones generated in SuperCollider
Minimal surface
2023 · 15 min
Voice, quarter-tone bass/alto flutes, trombone, violin, viola, cello, contrabass
for Zeynep Toraman
Time falling
2023 · 30 min
Quarter-tone bass flute, contrabass
Old town
2023 · 18 min
Short film with electronic music created in SuperCollider
Rassla
2023 · 17 min
SuperCollider, optionally with acoustic instruments and/or voices
for Ellen Arkbro
Sieve of Eratosthenes
2023 · 4 min (or longer)
Two pianos in 67-limit just intonation
Nocturne
2022 · 18 min
Flute, bass flute, alto saxophone, bass trombone, accordion (12-EDO), electric guitar (84-EDO), harp (84-EDO), violin, cello
for Pascale Criton
Harmonium glistening
2021 · 18 min
At least six instruments and/or voices, possibly with electronic accompaniment in SuperCollider
Triple resplendence
2021 · 7 min
Quarter-tone alto flute, viola, trombone
Chanter
2021 · 15 min
Solo cello
for Émilie Girard-Charest
Per
2018/2020 · 12 min
3 Flutes, 3 oboes, 3 clarinets, 3 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, bass drum, timpani, harp, strings
Fields flowering
2020 · 8 min
Violin, viola, cello
for Murielle Sabat
Wenn
2020 · 8 min
Text by Luisa Rüster
High voice or alto flute, violin, clarinet in A, bass clarinet
Rondo for Marcus Pal
2020 · 27 min
SuperCollider
98 Chords for Catherine Lamb
2020 · 10 min
Horn, viola, suspended cymbal
Bercer
2019 · 11 min
Solo cello
for Émilie Girard-Charest
Atlas 2012
2012 · 14 min
First version, 2015: alto saxophone, electric guitar with ebow
Second version in just intonation, 2019: viola, acoustic guitar with ebow
Anstatt
2019 · 10 min
Clarinet, violin, cello, accordion in 12-EDO
Just/Chords Melodies
2019 · 13 min
Solo piano in Sabat II well temperament
for Louise C. Milner
Still
2018 · 6 min
Violin, viola
for mom
Endless wander
2018 · 9 min
Bass flute, violin, viola, cello
Schwer Abschied nehmen wenn ich Taschentuch sehe
2018 · 45 min
Collaboration with Luisa Rüster, Jingjing Du, Maria Färber and Lisa-Johanna Schindlbeck
Three dancers, light, object installation, violin, keyboard, SuperCollider
Gram
2018 · 15 min
Baroque alto flute, viola, keyboard, video installation
Branch
2018 · 8 min
Any three sustaining instruments and/or voices
Servicemaster
2017 · 55 min
Collaboration with Kim-Ferris Manning
Site-specific installation, sculpture, film
Motte
2017 · 40 min
Flute (doubling piccolo), alto saxophone (doubling contrabass clarinet), bassoon (doubling contrabassoon), horn, tubular bells, piano in 13-limit just intonation, violin, viola
for Kim Ferris-Manning
That/Which
2016 · 5 min
2 Flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, tuba, tubular bells, strings
About
2016 · 17 min
3 Flutes, 2 oboes, 3 clarinets, 3 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, percussion (3 players), harp, organ, strings