| “New Approaches to Pitch in Three Recent Works for Historical Keyboards.” Presented at the 63rd Annual Organ Conference, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), October 2023. |
| "A Comprehensive-Immersive Approach to Beginning Composition Instruction: A 25th-Year Report." Presented at Teaching Composition: A Symposium on Composition Pedagogy, University of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT), September 2023. |
| “Modular, Recombinant, and Concurrent Approaches to Musical Form: Two Recent Works with Guitar.” Presented at the 21st Century Guitar conference, Ball State University (Muncie, IN), March 2022. |
| "Literature as Musical Impetus: A Composer's Perspective." Presented for the Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society, University of North Texas (Denton, TX), February 2019. |
| “Frank Zappa’s The Yellow Shark.” Presented as a pre-concert talk for a performance of Frank Zappa's The Yellow Shark by Orchestra 2001 (Philadelphia, PA), April 2018. |
| “Interstices: Science and Mathematics as Compositional Schemata.” Presented at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Glasgow, UK), October 2017. |
| “Two Recent works: Interstices and An Unaware Cosmos.” Presented at the Janácek Akademie (Brno, CZ), October 2015. |
| "Interstices and the Canetti Series." Tarrant County College Southeast (Arlington, TX), April 2014. |
| “Establishing a Creative Environment for Music, Technology, and Art.” Presented at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music (Chengdu, China), May 2012. |
| “The Confluence of Literature and Music Composition in Works Since 1993.” Presented at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music (Chengdu, China), May 2012. |
| "Text Setting with Electroacoustic Environment: Expanding the Poem Plane." Presented at the 13th Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, Connecticut College (New London, CT), March 2012. |
| “Edgard Varèse.” Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2009. |
| “Frank Zappa.” Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2009. |
| “Zwei Parabeln nach Franz Kafka: A Composer’s Reflections.” Presented at the National Taipei University of Education (Taipei, TW), March 2007. |
| “Two Text Settings with Computer Music: Three Poems from Felt (after Alice Fulton) and Zwei Parabeln nach Franz Kafka.” Presented at Tarrant County Community College (North Richland Hills, TX), October 2007; The University of Suwon (Hwaseong, SK); Dankook University (Yongin, SK), October 2008; |
| “Creating an Electroacoustic Environment for Text Setting: Three Poems from Alice Fulton’s Felt.” Presented at the International Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology (WOCMAT), National Chiao Tung University (Hsinchu, Taiwan), March 2007. |
| “A Comprehensive-Immersive Approach to Beginning Composition Instruction.” Presented at the conference “Composer au XXIe siècle: processus et philosophies,” Observatoire internationale de la creation musicale (OICM); Université de Montréal (Montréal, Canada), March 2007. |
| “It Can’t Happen Here: Political and Social Commentary in the Works of Frank Zappa.” Presented at the conference “Politics and Media,” Lodz Academy of International Studies (Lodz, Poland), April 2006; Palacky University (Olomouc, CZ), October 2015. |
| “Frank Zappa: American Composer.” Presented at the Janácek Akademie (Brno, CZ), March 2003. |
| "Contemporary American Music." Presented at the Pavel Krízkovsky Performing Arts Gymnázium (Komín, CZ), March 2003. |
| “Games Composers Play.” Presented at the 4th Annual American Music Week in Bulgaria; American University in Bulgaria (Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria), November 2001. |
| “Talking Heads." Popular Musicians, ed. Steve Hochman. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1999. |
| “XTC.” Popular Musicians, ed. Steve Hochman. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1999. |
| “Towards a Fractal Aesthetic in Music.” Presented at Denison University (Granville, OH), October 1999. |
| “Models and Metaphors in Occam’s Razor.” Presented at University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), October 1999; Masaryk University (Brno, CZ) and Palacky University (Olomouc, CZ), March 2003; National Taiwan Normal University (Taipei, TW), March 2007; Indiana University (Bloomington, IN), December 2009. |
| “Musical Models in the road in its unfoldings.” Presented at the University of Louisville (Louisville, KY), December 1998. |
| “The Pathways Project.” Presented at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, May 1995; University of Chicago, May 1997; Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), March 1998. |
| "The Composer and Performer in the Collaborative Process" (with trombonist Andrew Glendening). Presented at Pepperdine University (Malibu, CA), California State University, Los Angeles, and Orange County High School for the Arts (Orange, CA), November 1994. |
| “The Composer in Contemporary Society.” Presented at the University of Evansville (Evansville, IN), February 1994; California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, May 1995; Arkansas Governor's School, Hendrix College (Conway, AR), July 1996; Plano West Senior High School (Plano, TX), May 2002. |
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