The Death of the King of Bandjoun is a 40-minute madrigal comedy for three percussionists, speakers, tape and projection. A story of witchcraft and local politics in rural Cameroon, in the format of Orazio Vecchi's 1597 madrigal comedy "L'Amfiparnaso". Premiered in 2006 in The Hague, Netherlands.
Sponsus is an 80-minute semi-staged oratorio for five singers, violin, double bass, guitar and accordion. A contemporary recomposition of an 11th-century liturgical drama on the biblical parable of the foolish virgins and the wise virgins. Premiered in 2012 in Toulouse, France, with a scenography by Nico de Rooij.
The Hiroshima Saxophone Quartets are a series of quartets written for Hiroshima-based saxophonist Kazuya Kato and his ensemble. Recorded over several years at Elisabeth University of Music in Hiroshima and rremiered in 2013 at the Setouchi Triennale in Ogijima, Japan.
I Fioretti is an hour-long opera about the life of St. Francis of Assisi, for 5 singers a cappella, electronics, and dancers, composed in collaboration with Ryan Carter (electronics) for off-off-Broadway theater La Mama in New York City and performed 12 times during its Fall 2010 season.
Musyckboexken is a cycle of pieces for six recorders, cornetto, viola da gamba, and crumhorns in the format of the popular songbooks of the Flemish Renaissance, but with contents that follows early Baroque adaptations of classical rhetoric to musical discourse. Premiered in 2005 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
KaZoo is an electroacoustic piece depicting modern street life in the busy port city of Douala, Cameroon. It is a mirror to The Death of the King of Bandjoun, which depicts traditional, mystical, rural Cameroon. Premiered in 2004 in London, UK.
The St. Francis String Quartets are a pair of string quartets sonically representing two episodes in the life of St. Francis of Assisi, "The Birds" and "The Wolf". The pair is a mirror to the opera I Fioretti, which also tells the life of St. Francis. Premiered in 2012 at the Met Museum’s Christmas concert in New York.
Le Pli is an hour-long dance piece for marimba, drum kit, and electric loosely inspired by Gilles Deleuze's book "Le Pli". Choreography by Megan Harrold Chu. Premiered in Forbach, France, and Amsterdam in 2012-13.
Textiles is a piece for 36 brass instruments whose sound material is built like a woven object on the model of 18th-century French fabrics. The breathing and tuning irregularities inherent to the size of the ensemble are treated as predictable shimmering and creasing behaviors of the material. Premiered in 2022 in Versailles, France.