ADAM HILL

Large Ensembles ~ Chamber Music ~ Electro-Acoustic




Choir

Orchestra

Five to Nine to Five – 2014 – 6 min.
The Light That Gets Lost – 2011 – 15 min.
You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To (arr.) – 2010 – 6 min.
After the Dawn Out Comes the Sun – 2010 – 8 min.

Jazz Band

Mud Boots – 2012 – 7 min.
Cash Cache – 2008 – 3 min.
My Little Suede Shoes (arr.) – 2008 – 4 min.
Waltz for No One (arr.) – 2008 – 5 min.
On the Sunny Side of the Street (arr.) – 2008 – 3 min.
Fat Fried Sole – 2002 – 8 min.




Vocal Chamber Music

Hard Times Come Again – 2022 – alto, baritone, string quartet, piano, bass, guitar/mandolin, electric guitar, and electronics – 70 min.
Of All the Birds I Know – 2018 – soprano, alto, tenor, bass, flute, clarinet, piano, and electric guitar – 4 min.
Orpheus Unplugged – 2016 – soprano, tenor, double bass, and two percussionists – 8 min.
What a Dream – 2015 – soprano, alto, baritone, flute, cello, piano, and harp – 6 min.
Oilblood – 2014 – soprano, tenor, flute, oboe, clarinet, tenor sax, violin, viola, prepared piano, and electric guitar – 6 min.
This Is What Happened – 2013 – soprano, tenor, violin, cello, piano, and guitar – 5 min.
Ride Along East Hastings – 2011 – high voice and piano – 4 min.
May Stress Sheer Strain Attend Us – 2009 – tenor and piano – 9 min.
Sounds That Shatter the Stillness in Lives – 2006 – alto, string quartet, jazz piano, bass, and drumset – 20 min.

Instrumental Chamber Music

Pingala’s Threads of Knowledge – 2025 – electric guitar, pipa, electric bass, double bass, and drums – 7 min.
Apricot Leather – 2025 – open instrumentation – 10 min.
(Do You Remember the) Escalators (at the Old Downtown Higbee’s) – 2024 – open instrumentation – 9 min.
Absolut Earnest – 2022 – violin, cello, and piano – 3 min.
It’s Christmastime in Late Stage Capitalism – 2021 – string quintet – 4 min.
Desperately Blue – 2020 – string quintet – 6 min.
A Single Juniper Post – 2020 – string quintet – 9 min.
Super Super Mother Bad – 2016 – bass (or alto) flute – 5 min.
Back in Traffic – 2015 – cello and ruan – 6 min.
A Springboard Not a Tombstone – 2015 – string quartet – 3 min.
Old As the River – 2015 – erhu, sheng, pipa, ruan, and zheng – 6 min.
Tweets – 2015 – piano, toy piano, and melodica – 5 min.
Five to Nine to Five – 2013 – flute, clarinet, violin, cello, guitar, piano, and percussion – 5 min.
Hydrologic – 2013 – string quartet and guitar – 5 min.
Fantango – 2012 – trombone quartet – 2 min.
Panic at the Discotheque – 2011 – pipe organ – 6 min.
And There Were Swallows – 2009 – flute, clarinet, cello, and piano – 4 min.
The G-2-5 Jive O’er the Land of the Grand Gringo – 2002 – flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone, 2 violins, viola, cello, and bass – 15 min.
Suite for Clarinet, Bass, and Piano – 2001 – clarinet, bass, and piano – 12 min.
Mister Miranda’s Mysterious March – 2001 – mandolin and guitar – 8 min.




Instruments With Electronics

Hard Times Come Again – 2022 – alto, baritone, string quartet, piano, bass, guitar/mandolin, electric guitar, and electronics – 70 min.
Shoalwater Bay Vespers – 2018 – double bass and live electronics – 15 min.
Suite Mixtape – 2017 – double bass and live electronics – 25 min.
I Will Stay Here – 2016 – taragato and electronics – 9 min.
Beautiful Dreamers – 2013 – cello and live electronics – 5 min.
A White Swarm – 2013 – saxophone and live electronics – 5 min.
The Streets Smart – 2010 – double bass and electronics – 9 min.
How the Ocean Dreamed Breakers Against the Land – brass quintet and electronics – 12 min.
He Said, He Said, She Said, He Said – 2009 – violin, viola, cello, and electronics – 6 min.

Electronic Media Alone

Jack’s Trail – 2021 – stereo audio with video – 1 min.
Music for the End of Airports – 2021 – stereo audio with video – 7 min.
How the Ocean Dreamed Breakers – stereo audio with video – 3 min.
Estuary Television – 2017 – 45 min. stereo audio loop or continuously changing audio/video installation
In Our Lifetime – 2016 – stereo audio installation – 2 min.
Of the Last Quiet Places – 2015 – stereo audio with or without video – 11 min.
an anthem – 2012 – stereo audio – 4 min.
Talk Eloquently About Peace – 2009 – live stereo performance with Max/MSP – 8 min.
ORD – 2009 – stereo audio – 3 min.
PAC – 2009 – stereo audio – 3min.