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2025
Like a Scattering from a Fixed Point
18 minutes
Commissioned by the IntAct Festival
solo cello, ensemble, and electronics

2025
GRIDS
25 minutes
Commissioned by EMPAC
septet, video and electronics

2024
Ecology of Disruption
16 minutes
Commissioned by Tetractys New Music
trio, video and electronics

2023
Emergent Phenomena
31 minutes
Commissioned by IntAct Festival
trio and electronics

2021
oggetti II
6 minutes
Commissioned by Thailand New Music & Arts Symposium
quintet and electronics

2020
Reflexive Iterations 1.a
22 minutes
Commissioned by Thailand New Music & Arts Symposium
quintet, extended no-input mixer, and electronics

2019
all-forgetting-is-retrieval
8 minutes
Commissioned by Thailand New Music & Arts Symposium
septet, augmented conductor, and electronics

2018
surface, tension
variable
Commissioned by the Embassy of Foreign Artists
two performers, video and electronics

2017
soliloquios del viento
15 minutes
Commissioned by Royaumont, sextet version for Ensemble Interface
sextet or septet and electronics

2017
PANIC ARCHITECTURE
9 minutes
Commissioned by the Earle Brown Music Foundation & TIME SPANS Festival for Talea
sinfonietta and electronics

2017
ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY
9 minutes
Commissioned by Royaumont Ensemble Voix Nouvelles
soprano, octet, and electronics

2016
soliloquios del viento
15 minutes
Commissioned by Royaumont for the Talea Ensemble+EXAUDI
octet and six singers

2015
walkside, lost
15 minutes
Commissioned by Gaudeamus Muziekweek
trio, video and electronics

2015
Second Study for Alto Saxophone, Video, and Electronics: pulp
14 minutes
Commissioned by Matt Evans, Casey Grev, Emily Loboda, Marta Tiesenga, & Sean Fredenburg
solo, video and electronics

2015
HUNGER (Part III)
25 minutes
Commissioned by Darmstadt Contemporary Opera Workshop & The Industry, L.A.
octet, three singers, video and electronics

2015
hunger fragments
10 minutes
Commissioned by The New York Virtuoso Singers
sixteen solo voices

2015
gimme shelter
15 minutes
Commissioned by Eklekto Percussion Geneva
trio, video and electronics

2015
de/ter|       |ior.ation
9 minutes
Commissioned by the Blue Water Chamber Orchestra as winner of Iron Composer 2014
chamber orchestra

2014
oggetti 1
4 minutes
Commissioned by Chamber Music Campania (Italy) & Fiati 5 Wind Quintet
quintet

2014
Double Concerto for Two Horns and Chamber Orchestra
11 minutes
Commissioned by the International Horn Society for the Eastman Music Nova Ensemble, Jeff Nelsen, Mike Walker, and Brad Lubman
chamber orchestra

2014
antistasis
7 minutes
Commissioned by Tzlil Meudcan International Contemporary Music Festival for Ensemble Nikel
trio

2013
...durat(A)ions: 'broken landscape'
13 minutes
Commissioned by Iktus Percussion
percussion quartet

2013
Asymptotic Flux: Second Study in Entropy
9 minutes
Commissioned by the Mizzou International Composers Festival for Alarm Will Sound
sinfonietta

2012
First Study for Alto Saxophone: doublethink
13 minutes
Commissioned by Michael Rene Torres for the 2012 North American Saxophone Alliance Conference
solo

2012
Asymptotic Flux: First Study in Entropy
7 minutes
Co-commissioned by the Switch~ Ensemble and OSSIA
quartet and electronics


Events
  • May 23, 2026
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    UCSB Residency, performance of GRIDS for the [Switch~ Ensemble] alongisde works by Julie Herndon, Igor Santos.
    Santa Barbara, CA
  • April 10, 2026
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    Overdrive Festival NYC, performance of selections from GRIDS for the [Switch~ Ensemble] alongisde works by Tobias Fandel, Itzá García, and more
    Manhattan, NY
  • December 20, 2025
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    Premiere of Like a Scattering from a Fixed Point for cellist Mariel Roberts Musa and the TACETi Ensemble, led by conductor Boon Hua Lien.
    Bangkok, Thailand
  • September 12, 2025
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    EMPAC, Troy, NY. new work in collaboration with Christopher Chandler and the the [Switch~ Ensemble] with audiovisual processing system. World Premiere.
    Troy, NY
  • December 23, 2024
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    Premiere of Ecology of Disruption 2.0 for trio, feedback instruments, sensors, DMX lighting, and generative audiovisual processing system by the TACETi Ensemble.
    Bangkok, Thailand
  • September 26, 2024
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    First visit of three for a residency at EMPAC in Troy, NY as part of a larger, two year residency for the creation of a GRIDS for the [Switch~ Ensemble] and audiovisual processing system, in collaboration with Christopher Chandler. The World Premiere will take place a year later in September, 2025
    Troy, NY
  • May 26, 2024
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    Premiere of Ecology of Disruption for Line Upon Line, commissioned by Tetractys New Music's 'Here Be Monsters' Festival.
    Austin, Texas
  • December 23, 2023
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    IntAct 2023, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre. new work for trio and generative electronics. World premiere
    Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
  • November 17, 2023
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    Continuum Contemporary Music, Toronto. walkside, lost for three percussionists, electronics, and live video processing. Canadian Premiere.
    The Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  • May 03, 2023
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    Performing Electronics for Adriana Hölszky's work Tragödia at the Hochschule für Musik Dresden. Historical reproduction of electronics from 1996/97. Conductor Nicolas Kuhn.
    HfM Konzertsaal, Dresden, Germany
  • March 02, 2023
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    University at Buffalo Residency
    Buffalo, NY
  • December 25, 2022
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    IntAct 2022, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre. walkside, lost Thai premiere
    Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
  • December 20, 2022
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    ICIT 2022, Bangkok: International Composition Institute of Thailand. Faculty Artist & Mentor.
    Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
  • November 18, 2022
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    PS21 Chatham, Resonant Mechanisms: The Experimental Tradition in Upstate New York
    Chatham, NY
  • July 30, 2022
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    MICF 2022 - Alarm Will Sound: Eight World Premieres, Managing Director.
    Missouri Theatre, Columbia, MO
  • July 25, 2022
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    Mizzou International Composers Festival with Alarm Will Sound, Managing Director.
    Missouri Theatre, Columbia, MO
  • June 18, 2022
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    Managing Director of the Mizzou Summer Composition Institute with the [Switch~ Ensemble].
    Sinquefield Music Center, Columbia, MO

Updates
  • May 14, 2025
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    Guest lecture, Grieg Academy, University of Bergen, Norway. May 14, 2025, Grieg Academy of Music’s Composition Research Group, University of Bergen, Norway
  • January 25, 2025
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    ICIT 2025. “Dec. 15-21, 2025, Bangkok: International Composition Institute of Thailand (ICIT) Faculty Artist alongside fellow faculty Emily Koh, Ken Ueno, Scott...
  • January 23, 2025
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    SWR Experimentalstudio Workstay. “I’m excited to have been awarded a 2026 SWR Experimentalstudio Workstay in Freiburg, Germany, where I will be developing new...
  • December 16, 2024
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    ICIT 2024. “Dec. 16-22, 2024, Bangkok: International Composition Institute of Thailand (ICIT) Faculty Artist.”
  • July 02, 2024
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    Guest lecture, Musikhochschule Lübeck, Studio for Elektronic Music.. July 2, 2024, Hochschule für Musik Lübeck, guest lecturer, Studio for Elektronic Music.
  • May 20, 2024
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    Aaron Copland Bogliasco Fellowship. “I’m thrilled to have been awarded a 2024 Aaron Copland Bogliasco Fellowship in Music, where I will spend November-December as...
  • December 18, 2023
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    ICIT 2023. “Dec. 18-22, 2023, Bangkok: International Composition Institute of Thailand (ICIT) Faculty Artist.”
  • October 23, 2023
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    BabelScores Catalog. “Oct. 23, 2023: Happy to have recently joined the catalog of composers with works available through BabelScores! Head on over...
  • December 20, 2022
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    ICIT 2022. Dec. 20-22, 2022, Bangkok: International Composition Institute of Thailand (ICIT) Faculty Artist.
  • November 11, 2022
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    Interview by Sandris Murins: Music as system of interactions.. Nov. 11, 2022: Sandris Murins has conducted interviews with excellent composers all over the world about their work, technology, and...
  • September 14, 2022
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    Oggetti I (2014) awarded 2nd prize in 'New Vision' Composition Competition.. Sep. 14, 2022: Oggetti I (2014) for wind quintet was awarded 2nd prize in the ‘New Vision’ Composition Competition, adjudicated...
  • August 09, 2022
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    Faculty appointment at the Hochschule für Musik Dresden, Hybrid Music Lab. In September, Jason Thorpe Buchanan will join the faculty of the Hybrid Music Lab at the Hochschule für Musik Carl...
  • February 17, 2022
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    Bangkok Metropolitan Orchestra. Feb. 17-18, 2022: Composition workshop with new works by student composers of Mahidol University and Royal Holloway University in London....
  • February 06, 2022
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    Mizzou New Music Initiative Interim Managing Director. Jason Thorpe Buchanan joins the University of Missouri School of Music’s New Music Initiative. Projects and events include the Mizzou...
  • January 26, 2022
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    Oggetti Ii. Score and video recording of oggetti II World Premiere at the Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium with the TACETi...
Jason Thorpe Buchanan