Andrew Stock Andrew Stock is a composer. He writes instrumental music and songs, organizes concerts and other programs centered on experimental music and contemporary art, and is a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago.
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14 songs
in progress
violin, string trio (violin, viola, cello)
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new work
in progress
violin
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“Les concerts ne sont jamais de veritable musique, on doit renoncer a y entendre, ce qu’il y a de beau dans l’art.”
2024
piano, flute, clarinet (or bass clarinet), violin (or viola), cello, percussion (1 player)
10–12m
recording
fp: 
January 18, 2025, Chicago
Blackbox Ensemble
title: 
Frédéric Chopin as quoted by Emilie von Gretsch, recorded by Maria von Grewingk (Eine Tochter Alt-Rigas, Schülerin Chopins, 1928)

text (percussion part): Franz Liszt and Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein trans. Martha Walker Cook (Life of Chopin, 1852/1863) Filed under 
all, chamber
Ballad
2024
voice (A3–Ab5 [mezzo-soprano]), piano
2h fp:
April 25, 2026, Chicago (upcoming)
Liz Pearse (voice), Ashlee Mack (piano) Filed under 
all, vocal
Untitled (Kertész-Quartet)2024
4 instruments, each from a different family (e.g. bowed string, plucked string, wind, percussion) and always including 1 violin, viola, or cello
17m recording (excerpts)
fp (with original first movement): 
April 21, 2024, Chicago
TAK Ensembletitle: André Kertész, Quartet, 1926

first movement to be replaced Filed under 
all, chamber
Untitled (empathy/the mark of Cain)2022
voice, variable 5–8 players always including percussion (min. 1), field recordings
7mrecording
fp:
April 16, 2022, Chicago
Nina Dante (voice), Fonema Consorttext:
You have no brother in the slave when you say “O my brother”
(quoted as “Arabic proverb” in Frank B. Wilderson III, “‘Raw Life’ and the Ruse of Empathy,” 2013)Filed underall, vocal, chamber
Songs (Book 1)
2020–

1. “Intelectuales Apolíticos”
1+ speaker(s), 1+ percussionist(s) in equal number
short
2. Untitled
speaker, prerecorded speaker
long
3. Interview
1+ speaker(s), variable instrumentation +/- electronics
variable duration
4. Untitled (Tagelied)
speaker, bass drum
6m
5. [originally Untitled (Kertész-Quartet), to be replaced]

6. Untitled (“I sell the shadow to support the substance”)
2 melody instruments, 2 field recordings
7m
7. Alphabet Song for David Drake
speaker, recordings, performers (up to 26) with objects
medium–long
8. Untitled
speaker playing percussion instrument (skin)
medium–short
9. Untitled (2 variations)
speaker, 3-5 melody instruments, piano
1m
10. new work
upcoming
4 speakers, 4 trombones, percussion (1 player)

11. new work
upcoming
speaker, 2 equal instruments
recordings (individual link[s] below): 

6.texts:
1. Otto René Castillo (Vámonos patria a caminar, 1965)

4. Joseph Joachim (letter to Gisela von Arnim, December 20, 1853)

6. Sojourner Truth (cartes de visite after 1864)

7. David Drake (inscription on stoneware, August 17, 1857)

8. David Marriott (“Judging Fanon,” 2016)

9. spiritual (“Poor little Jesus” [Roud 10067]); Hector Berlioz (letter to Joseph Joachim, December 9, 1853
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the french suites
2017
violin or viola (baroque or modern)
4mfp (viola): 
June 14, 2018, Paris (Fondation des États-Unis)
Jossalyn JensenFiled underall, solo
Index of Lutheran Chorale Settings
2016 rev. 2018, 2023
variable instrumentation (ensemble or polyphonic solo instrument) (2016/18)
realization for organ (2023)
variable durationrecording (organ)
fp (ensemble):
February 8, 2020, New York City (Spectrum)
Amalgama

fp (organ):
January 7, 2023, Chicago (Rockefeller Memorial Chapel)
Randall Harlowtext score (open realization, some notated examples provided)Filed underall, chamber, solo
félix gonzález-torres
2016
viola, percussion (1 player) (both amplified)
16mFiled underall, chamber
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