Two salient elements in Hodge’s music are the incorporation of timbre as an integral form-bearing compositional device, and an approach to musical structure that emphasizes gradual change over time. As such, his music bears traces of American Minimalism and Franco-European Spectralism, though Jonathan Bernard questions this ascription, pointing out that his approach is somewhat iconoclastic in its reliance on philosophical ideas as the impetus and justification for musical materials and structures. His music is also characterized by its incorporation of techniques drawn from electroacoustic composition, its response to light patterns found in nature, and its approach to dialogue with the music of previous centuries.
Catalog of Works
Toccata for piano solo
Concerto for Cello and Chamber Orchestra
Widerspiegelung | Mirror Image : for tenor saxophone and piano.
Zeremonie : for computerized sound
AntEroica : for piano, live electronics and video projection.
Kandinsky Studies : for computer-synthesized sound.
String Quintet
Zeremonie : version for large ensemble, computerized sound and dance. In collaboration with the NYU New Music and Dance Ensemble.
The Awakeneing : for full orchestra.
De Nativitate : for piano quintet.
Between Light and Shade : for flute, cello and percussion trio.
Seeds of Fire : for piano and computerized sound.
Early Lyrics : for chamber ensemble.
Psalm XIII : for SSAATTB choir.
...como un respiro : for solo cello and eleven strings.
Parallaxes : for Chamber Orchestra.
Out of a Dark Sea : for chamber ensemble. Commissioned by The Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, ), Director, as part of the
19th Annual World Premieres Commission Series
Phantasie : for amplified cello. Commissioned by Musik der Jahrhunderte for cellist Adrian Fung as part of the ISCM World New Music Festival, 2006.
Remix-Asyla : for large ensemble. In collaboration with members of Ensemble Modern and the Berlin Philharmonic.
A Distant Mirror : for bass clarinet/clarinet and piano.
Efflux : for clarinet and violin.
In Lumine : for SATB choir.
Two Preludes : for harp solo.
Apparent Motion for 2 pianos and 2 percussion.
String Quartet : commissioned by the American Composers Forum with funding from the Jerome Foundation.
Transfigured Etudes : for piano solo; written for the 2010 ISCM World New Music Days, Sydney, Australia.
Alêtheia : for large chamber ensemble. Commissioned Muziek Centrum Nederland for the Ensemble Aleph and Ensemble Insomnio as part of the Laboratoire Instrumental Europeén.
from the language of shadows : for symphonic wind ensemble, 2 amplified pianos, 3 amplified Contrabasses and silent film. 24-member CBDNA consortium commission.
I think that the Root of the Wind is Water : for computer-realized sound. Commissioned by the American Academy in Rome.
pools of shadow from an older sky : for live-processed bent Piano, computer-realized sound and video projection in collaboration with video artist Karen Yasinsky. Commissioned by the American Academy in Rome.
Départ : for violin solo. Written as part of a musical Festschrift for Tristan Murail.
Tetzahuitl : for chamber orchestra. Written for the Talea Ensemble / Contempuls Festival.
re : for live-processed melodica, amplified string quartet and electronics. Commissioned by Music at the Anthology.
Time is the substance I am made of : for 32 singers, computer-realized sound, video, choreography and lighting design; commissioned by the National Concert Hall of Taiwan for the Taipei Chamber Singers.
Apophenia : for large mixed chamber ensemble and dancers. Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment and the Rondó Festival with funding from the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.
Unicinium : for microtonal trumpet, written for Stephen Altoft.
pulse – cut – seethe – blur : for chamber orchestra; commissioned by the Seattle Symphony, premiere 23 October 2015.
The Topography of Desire : for string quartet; commissioned by Harvard's Fromm Foundation, premiere 29 April 2016 by the Daedalus Quartet at University of Washington, Meany Hall.
At dawn I chant my own weird hymn : for solo offstage trumpet, symphonic wind and percussion ensemble, 2 amplified harps, 2 amplified pianos, and 3 amplified contrabasses.
mi'ma'amakin : for organ.
Innigkeit : for clarinet solo.
Fracture : for percussion and piano.
Time is the substance I am made of : for large mixed chorus and electronics.
