Works List

Concert Works

For voices and live electronics

Fundamental Ornamental – by Evelyn Saylor and Nina Guo – for two voices and live electronics (2024)
Pastoral – for solo voice and live electronics (2024)
↗ A to B – for two voices and live electronics (2024)
↗ Astral Circuits – for two voices and live electronics (2023)
↗ Shattered, Shimmering – for solo voice and live electronics (2023)
↗ No Such Virtue (‘There Is No Rose’ Permutation) – for solo voice & live electronics (2023)
↗ Unearthly Bioacoustics by Evelyn Saylor and Rebecca Lane – for voices, flute, organ pipes & quadraphonic live electronics (2022)

For a cappella voices

Synchronized Swimming – by Evelyn Saylor and Dina Maccabee – for two a cappella voices (2025)
Scherzo – for SSA a cappella vocal trio (2024)
For After – for four a cappella voices (2024)
↗ Back & Forth – for four a cappella voices (2024) (alternate version for three a cappella voices)
↗ The Autumn Day Its Course Has Run – for three a cappella voices (2023)
↗ Fantas Variation for Voices – for four a cappella voices (an a cappella arrangement of the album version) (2021)
↗ Change Patterns No. 2 by Evelyn Saylor & Rebecca Lane – for two a cappella voices (2018)
↗ Change Patterns No. 1 by Evelyn Saylor & Rebecca Lane – for two a cappella voices (2018)

For voices and instrumental accompaniment

Upswell – by Evelyn Saylor and Dina Maccabee – for two voices, viola, and shruti box (2025)

For ensemble

↗ Encompass – for small orchestra (2020)
↗ Cyclus Cygnus by Evelyn Saylor and Cherilyn MacNeil – for two voices, flute, clarinet, harp, electronics, and electric swan ensemble (2020)
Reckless Poem – for soprano, violin, and piano (2014)
↗ Character Pieces – for cello and piano (2013)
↗ Exhuberance – for bass-baritone and piano (2013)
Song for Woodwinds and Strings – flute, clarinet, violin, and two cellos (2012)
This Land is Your Land – for Balinese Gamelan Ensemble (2010)
Scenes of Paris: Gray and Brilliant – for cello, piano, and French horn (2009)
Prayer for My Heart – for SA chorus and organ (2006)

Site specific / installation

↗ Gone to Ground – Site-specific playable composition for sonic biking (2016)
↗ Tech Tonic Plates – Fixed media electronic composition by Evelyn Saylor (2012), installed as installation by Mari Matsutoya & Evelyn Saylor (2014)

Fixed media electronic works

↗ Vel Piling Grimtra (‘Traveling Pilgrim’ Permutation) – fixed media piece (2020)
↗ Prelude and Impromptu – 4-channel fixed media piece for Fairlight and field recordings (2016)
↗ Seams and Threads – Context-based composition on Sacred Harp singing for fixed media (2015/16)
↗ Pulses Round – fixed media piece for AKS Synthesizer and Loudspeaker Orchestra (2015)
↗ New Prospect – fixed media piece for Loudspeaker Orchestra (2015)
↗ Perspectives – fixed media piece for Loudspeaker Orchestra (2015)
↗ Observations: Glass on Strings – four-channel fixed media and amplified piano (2014/15)
↗ The Bells – fixed media piece (2012)
Diabolical Cathedral – eight-channel fixed media piece (2011)
Klang Fabrik – fixed media piece (2010)

Works for the Stage

↗ Frommer Tanz – theater piece, Thalia Theater, Ran Chai Bar-zvi (2025)
↗ Caligula – theater piece, Münchner Volkstheater, Ran Chai Bar-zvi (2025)
↗ Liebes Arschloch – theater piece, Theater Münster, Ran Chai Bar-zvi (2024)
↗ Jupiter brüllt – Der lange Weg zum Glücksplanet – theater piece, Staatstheater Mainz, Ran Chai Bar-zvi (2024)
↗ Das große Heft – theater piece, Münchner Volkstheater, Ran Chai Bar-zvi (2023)
↗ Beyond Love – theater/dance piece, Dragana Bulut (2023)
↗ Das wirkliche Leben – theater piece with live choral music, Staatstheater Hannover, Ran Chai Bar-zvi (2022)
↗ Grandmothers – dance piece with live music, Johanna Ackva & Nagao Akemi (2021)
↗ Clouds on Clear Sky – dance piece with live music, Johanna Ackva (2021)
↗ Allongé – dance piece with live music performance, Julian Weber (2020)
↗ Forgot to Remember – Remember to Forget – performance for dance and loudspeaker orchestra (2019), Evelyn Saylor (music) & Ruben Reniers (dance & choreography)
↗ Take It Like a Man – theater piece with live choral music by Evelyn Saylor & Nile Koetting, The Agency (2019)
↗ Displacement – dance piece with live music performance, Ruben Reniers (2018)
Flatland – dance piece with live music, Ruben Reniers (2018)
↗ SimulacrumX (Part II) – dance/theater piece with live music, Ruben Reniers (2016)
↗ schrittweise – dance piece including music by Evelyn Saylor, Ruben Reniers (choreography) (2015/16)
↗ Sounds for a While – music theater installation, Tischlerei, Deutsche Oper Berlin (2015)
↗ SimulacrumX – short dance solo, Ruben Reniers (2014)
Stirrings – short dance piece, Ava Untermeyer (2012)
Sister Pact – dance piece, Evelyn Saylor (choreography & music) (2006)

Works for Film

↗ Oskar Remixed – score for short film, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau (2019)
↗ Synchromy No. 2 – new score for short film by Mary Ellen Bute, commissioned by Heroines of Sound Festival (2018)
↗ I Am Because You Were – score for short film, Pierre-Yves Dalka (2018)

Releases

↗ Fantas Variation for Voices – by Evelyn Saylor, a recomposition of “Fantas” by Caterina Barbieri, released on the compilation album Fantas Variations by (2021, label: Editions Mego)
↗ By A Thread – for piano, percussion, and synthesizer by Evelyn Saylor, Edoardo Calgari, and Diana Restrepo, released on the compilation album Geometrics (2014, label: betont)

Releases as Arranger / Performer

↗ Matrices of Vision by Abigail Toll – performance as vocalist (2023, label: Shelter Press)
↗ PROTO by Holly Herndon – arranger of “Frontier”, soloist on “Canaan – Live Training” and “Frontier”, performance as vocalist on all tracks (2019, label: 4AD)