High tide shuffle (2023)
(Tsax-mar-drums) (3’15”)
composed for Tripple Tread
Brushing off the dust (2023)
for sopraansax, marimba and drums (3’30”)
composed for Tripple Tread
Count us in (2022)
(sax-mar-ebass-durms&multi pad) (5′)
composed for Beat Love Oracle
Bar foot (2022)
(Pno-tsax-mar-drums) (5′)
Composed for Beat Love Oracle and Liang-yu Wang
Dedicated to Erik Desimpelaere
Hammer abandon (2021)
Pno, sax&synth, mar&synth, el.bass, drums+multipad) 9′
Composed for Beat Love Oracle
Satellite delight (2021)
(Ssax&synth, mar&synth, el.bass, drums+multipad) 6′
composed for Beat Love Oracle
Eden drill (2021)
(Tsax&synth, mar&synth, el.bass, drums+multipad) 6′
Composed for Beat Love Oracle
Sunset Squabbles (2021)
(Tsax, mar&synth, el.bass, drums+multipad) 6′
Composed for Beat Love Oracle
Radical Risk (2nd Piano concerto (2021)
(Pno solo, sax&ssax&synth, mar&synth, el.bass,
drums+multipad)25′
Composed for Beat Love Oracle
Dedicated to Rafa Dorado
Two whales crashing a beach party (2020)
(2 electric basses)
Composed for Stijn Deldaele Dedicated to Robert Groslot
Niet menselijk (2020) (voc – guit – bass- drums)
Composed for Maï Nuyts and Jan Vanhoutteghem
Tarmac row (2020)
(tsax – mar – el.bass – drums+ Multipad) (7’)
Composed for Beat Love Oracle
Barefoot on thin ice (2020)
(ssax+syn – mar+syn – el.bass – drums+ Multipad) (6’)
Composed for Beat Love Oracle
Sticky stomp (at the crack of dawn) (2020)
(tsax+syn – mar+syn – el.bass – drums+ Multipad) (7’)
Composed for Beat Love Oracle
SOSpresso (2020)
(bsax- mar+syn – el.bass – drums+ Multipad) (5’30’) Composed for Beat Love Oracle
Shaky balance (2020) (ssax- mar+syn – el.bass – drums+
Multipad) (6’)
Composed for Beat Love Oracle
Dangerous liquids (2020)
(tsax- mar+syn – el.bass – drums) (6’)
Composed for Beat Love Oracle
Frank Zappa Arrangements (2019)
(tsax- mar – el.bass – drums)
RDNZL
Echidna’s Arf of You
Arranged for Beat Love Oracle
Neat beats always neats hits (2018)
(tsax+synth- marimba+synth – 5string bass (EADGB) – drums) (9’)
Dedicated to Gabi Sultana and Koen Tryssoone
Composed for Beat Love Oracle LP: ‘Who’s counting?’
What Beat Watts (2018)
(tsax+synth- marimba+synth – 5string bass (EADGB) – drums) (14ʹ)
Dedicated to Nadja Delbarre
Composed for Beat Love Oracle
LP: ‘Who’s counting?’
About-face (2018)
(tsax+synth- marimba – 5string bass (EADGB) (also lead vocal) – drums) (5ʹ)
Dedicated to Jonathan Bonny
Composed for Beat Love Oracle
Beat Love Oracle (2017)
(S/T/B Sax, marimba, bass drums) (60-65’)
Please don’t come any closer (LP ‘Who’s counting?) These are
not, I repeat, not downbeats.
Let’s dig our heels into this tile.
Your feet make me sob Them tunes will surely end poorly
Ready to cross against the light?
Dedicated to dr. Robert Hoogewijs
Composed for Beat Love Oracle
Beat Love Oracle (2016)
(S/T/B Sax, marimba, bass drums) (60-65’) Don’t count on us Too early, Bird!
Get your foot in the bar
Just thumb luck
Don’t bump your head against the Cloud
Shift! We’re lost! (LP ‘Who’s counting?)
Dedicated to dr. Robert Hoogewijs
Composed for Beat Love Oracle
Carbon fixation (2015)
(3 synths, pno, S/A/TSax, voc, mar, vib, bass, drums), all amplified) (75’)
Road Feel (5ʹ)
Vehicles of love (5ʹ)
Wheels in weeds (8ʹ)
Convertible superstar (5ʹ)
Jaunt with a beetle (7’30”)
Calling names (5’15”)
A better plan (6ʹ)
Yearning yarn (6ʹ)
Hate to love (6ʹ)
Drawing up (8ʹ)
First performance: Muziekcentrum De Bijloke
Second performance: Theaterzaal Tilburg (invited by Fontys Academy)
Smaart (2015)
For voice and pop band. (3’30)
Text and music by Frank Nuyts
Available on CD: Côté Koer, een productie van Muziekcentrum
De Bijloke, Côté koer #1
Between the treasure and the sun (2014)
(2 synths, pno & drums) (4’15”)
(adaptation of Hard Score Book 2 song)
Commissioned by headliner
Hard Scores revisited (2013)
13 pieces for ensemble (1u30ʹ)
(synths, pno, ampl. voice and sax, mrba, vib, ebass, drums)
new versions of several pieces from Hard Scores Books 3,4,5,6.
These versions replace the former ones.
Eat that gravity
Indian Prodioux
Iron Leaves
Kite Control
BSKRZ
The Creep from the Deep
No surf, no wind, only desire
Tabuba rasa
Bound for a Braun
Hideaway
A beacon in the sky
Pan the Satyrist
18 Seconds of Bonobo sex
Sacha (2010)
For ensemble and slides
(clar&s/a/t sax-s/t/b-trb-pno-perc-el.bass&keynote slides
(12’30”)
(drawings by Charles Berberian)
Commissioned by Ensemble Klang & Transit Festival Leuven
X-raying my…radio (2001)
For mixed ensemble
(1010 s & t sax 0112 pno epno perc 2211 ebass drums) (13’)
Commissioned by Royal Conservatory Ghent see also
Orchestra/large ensemble
Hard Scores Book 6: “Monkey trial” (2000)
(mez.sop – 2 synth – pno – sop/ten sax – mar – e.bass –drums) (60ʹ)
(text: Frank Nuyts)
Available on CD : Monkey Trial, Margen Records 0504/3
Hard Scores Book 5: “Surf, wind and desire” (1999)
(mez.sop – 3 synth (or 2 synth & 1 soundcanvas) – pno –
sop/ten sax – mar – e.bass – drums) (65ʹ) (text: Frank Nuyts)
Commissioned by De Werf Brugge
Available on CD: hardscore surf, wind & desire, label Carbon7,
C7-045
Hard Scores Book 3 (1998)
(revised version)
(mez. sop – 2 synth (or 1 synth – 1 vib) – pno – sop / ten sax –
mar – e.bass – drums) (30’)
Commmissioned by ‘Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen’
Available on CD: Methane (Hard Scores Book 2 and 3.
Hardscore records
Hard Scores Book 2: “Methane” (1998)
(revised version)
(mez. sop – 3 synth (or 2 synth – 1 vib) – pno – sop/ten sax –
mar – e.bass – drums – rythm comp) (20’)
Available on CD: Methane (Hard Scores Book 2 and 3. Hardscore records
Hard Scores book 4 “Tubes for sections” (1997)
(sop+dance – 3 synth – pno – trp – sop/ten sax – ten trb –
mar – drums – 2 perc) (21’)
Commissioned by Guido de Leeuw for vzw Trefpunt Gent &
SADEF Lichtervelde Available on CD: Tubes for Sections –
Hard Scores book 4 – Hardscore records
Hard Scores book 1 (1995)
(sop – pno – synth – ten+sop sax -mar – vib – drums – rythm comp) (20’)
(performance suspended, except “Flavours come easily”)
B – Side Art (1990)
(mar – pno – seq or tape – drums ) (15’)
Composed for Hardscore
Commissioned by Wim Wabbens for Vooruit
(parts 1&3 arranged for Spectra Ensemble
(Five Penny beats 1993)
A symphonie of Scraps (1988)
reduction for 2 keyboards and percussion (17ʹ)
Composed for Hardscore
Commissioned by Wim Wabbens for Vooruit
(see also orchestra page)