Amar's music combines advanced electronic instruments with "modern-clasicical", jazz and world-music techniques, as well as folk and toy instruments. Amar focuses on music for live performance, blending interactive electronics with acoustic instruments and sound sources, and experimenting with new modes of musically expressive performance. He often incorporates original software instruments into his eletronic work using Open Sound World.
Amar has won several awards for some of his early compositions and has had several of them performed professional, most notably a performance of his clarinet quartet Conversational Impromptu by the New York Clarinet Quartet at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in 1992. Amar has also performed several of his more recent works live at several venues in the United States, and in Havana, Cuba in 2001.
Here you will find brief excerpts of some of Amar's music, including new works. Please note that these samples are © 1991-2005 by Amar Chaudhary and are for your personal enjoyment while visiting this page and cannot be saved, duplicated, or distributed without expressed permission of Amar Chaudhary.
Available on current CD release
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Click here for recordings of past live performances
| Kaleidoscope in Blue for Piano Four-Hands, 1988 | ||
| Earth Songs for Piano and Voice (soprano or tenor), 1990 | ||
| The Blue Fish for Jazz Combo, 1990 | ||
| Conversational Impromptu for Clarinet Quartet, 1991 (live performance at Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall, May 1992) | ||
| Proportional Fish for Flute and Electronics, 1991 (excerpt 1 from 1991 recording, excerpt 2 from 2005 recording) |  | |
| Black Boxes and Springtime for Interactive Electronics, Trumpet and Mezzo Soprano, 1992 (excerpt from 2004 recording) | | |
| Five Miniatures for Piano, 1994 (excerpt from Movement 3, Dance) | ||
| Twotone Bell Fish for Flute and Interactive Electronics, 1999 | | |
| Spin Cycle / Control Freak for Interactive Electronics, 2000 | ||
| An Open and Shut Case for Interactive Electronics, 2001 | | |
| Mercury Grid for Interactive Electronics and Video, 2002 (full-length track, video excerpt) | ||
| Chimera for Interactive Electronics and Video, 2002 | | |
| Rain and Rage for MIDI Piano and Electronics, 2003 | | |
| Improvisations for Been (Snake Charmer Flute) and Interactive Electronics, 2003 (a picture of the been is included at the top of this page) | ||
| Charmer: Firmament for Interactive Electronics, 2003 | | |
| Neptune Prelude to Xi for Interactive Electronics and Thunder Tube, 2003 | | |
| Xi for Interactive Electronics and Hand Percussion, 2003 | | |
| 17S for Electronics and Video, 2003 | | |
| Edge 0316 for Electronics, 2003 | | |
| The Wooden Fish for Wood block and Electronics, 2004 | | |
| East Bloc Call to Prayer for Recorded voice samples and electronics, 2004 | ||
| Promotional Video, 2005 Video features clips from live shows as well as music-video animations. | ||
| Live Performance at plug:dos Headphone Festival, San Francisco, 2006 Live performance with laptop-based electronics for the plug:dos headphone festival, part of a yearly worldwide series of headphone concerts. | ||
| Music for Dorian Grey's Box, Watsonville, CA, 2007 Excerpt from electronic music composed for Dorian Grey's Box, a collaboration with Santa Cruz based artist Michael Carson for an exhibition at the Pajaro Valley Arts Council. |
Please contact the composer for information on the availability of scores, recordings or software patches.
