Travelling Jigue is an ever changing vocal piece that can be performed in many ways. This variation applies vocal harmonics in a unique interlocking fashion with very recognizable Tuvan and Indonesian elements. This performance also uses a sruti box (drone instrument in the background) played by Jessika kenney. Keep posted to hear new variations!

Solo Rising is a solo vocal piece which uses a simple sruti box accompaniment. This piece is much like an alap (the opening of a raga) and applies elements of counterpoint between the singer's fundamental tone and harmonic overtones.

Alignment is a contemplative experience of pure resonance, a structured improvisation and meditation in just intonation, in which three or more singers (eight in this recording) resonate with long tones and use harmonics to align just intervals and to navigate harmonic space. For the first three sections, marked by the striking of the Gong Agung (large Javanese gong played by Stephen Parris), a steady drone on middle C is played by rubbing the center of the large gong.

Unfolding Blossoms is a thru-composed harmonic navigation. This piece depicts the life of a flower from seed to decomposition. The title also refers to a the singing of a sequence of rising harmonics called a "blossom" in our ensemble.

Gliss is a focussed meditation in which the singers use vocal harmonics in parallel motion with their fundamental and glide from the lowest possible note to the highest, with a steady accelleration, creating an environment of ever-rising pitches. This piece is similar to a relay race in which the "baton" (vocal Harmonic) is passed from bass to baritone, from baritone to tenor, from tenor to alto, alto to soprano until finally the fundamental note of the soprano is the same as the bass vocal harmonic; thus, the pattern repeats itself.

This first version of Unfolding Blossoms (composed in 1999) was an undergraduate project and was the first piece composed for SHV. Originally it was two pieces, the first titled "unfolding" followed by "Blossoms". The first and second verisions of this piece are two very different flowers.