JIMMIBUNCH
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  • about me
  • WORKS / MEDIA
    • text-based scores
    • solo >
      • vinayak variations
      • how to [amost] start a revolution
      • devil's bargain [solo violin version]
      • crisis music [baritone saxophone]
      • book of myths [piano + electronics]
      • punchlines, cliches, pericopes, proverbs, and other old saws
      • in measureless oceans of space [solo piano]
      • windowed forms [solo piano]
    • chamber >
      • the closed circle
      • for want of a nail
      • montgomery songs
      • all the borrowed future before us
      • go lightly [flute + viola]
      • awake|asleep [2 sopranos + piano]
      • chrysanthemums [string quartet]
      • drag [violin + prepared piano]
      • forseen fable [soprano + violin + prepared piano]
      • mackerel sky [saxophone quartet]
      • ocean [baritone voice + piano]
      • ogni suono come un essere vivente [2 alto saxophones]
      • permanent emotions [violin + prepared piano]
      • with more eyes than the stars [amplified toy piano + amplified prepared piano + 2 multi-percussionists]
    • large ensemble >
      • Selling Greenland [Large open ensemble]
      • broken images [chamber orchestra]
      • flowergazers [soprano + 7 players]
      • gravity and grace [orchestra]
      • o unspeakable madness of our age [counter tenor + baritone + 7 players]
    • electronic >
      • EX / INTER / CHANGE
      • in the offing [fixed media version]
      • house of the future
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formal bio[s]
curriculum vitae
Hello, I’m Jimmy Bunch! I’m a composer, performer, educator, and concert organizer living and working in Chennai, India.

My interests as a composer are pretty varied. I’m drawn toward the experimental traditions in both composed and improvised American and European music, but also to their literary / canonic traditions; and those outside of the Western world. I like to explore the intertextual strange coincidences and frictions between genres and pre-existing works that arise out of my own perceptions as an “amateur” of these worlds. I try to respond with music that is weird, visceral, beautifully ugly, funny, sometimes critical, and always challenging and self-confrontative to write.

I teach composition at KM College of Music and Technology in Chennai [India], where I also direct the student contemporary ensemble "Hundredfoot Road." 

My DMA comes from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. And my music has been heard all  throughout the US, Canada, South America, Europe, and Asia.


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  • home
  • about me
  • WORKS / MEDIA
    • text-based scores
    • solo >
      • vinayak variations
      • how to [amost] start a revolution
      • devil's bargain [solo violin version]
      • crisis music [baritone saxophone]
      • book of myths [piano + electronics]
      • punchlines, cliches, pericopes, proverbs, and other old saws
      • in measureless oceans of space [solo piano]
      • windowed forms [solo piano]
    • chamber >
      • the closed circle
      • for want of a nail
      • montgomery songs
      • all the borrowed future before us
      • go lightly [flute + viola]
      • awake|asleep [2 sopranos + piano]
      • chrysanthemums [string quartet]
      • drag [violin + prepared piano]
      • forseen fable [soprano + violin + prepared piano]
      • mackerel sky [saxophone quartet]
      • ocean [baritone voice + piano]
      • ogni suono come un essere vivente [2 alto saxophones]
      • permanent emotions [violin + prepared piano]
      • with more eyes than the stars [amplified toy piano + amplified prepared piano + 2 multi-percussionists]
    • large ensemble >
      • Selling Greenland [Large open ensemble]
      • broken images [chamber orchestra]
      • flowergazers [soprano + 7 players]
      • gravity and grace [orchestra]
      • o unspeakable madness of our age [counter tenor + baritone + 7 players]
    • electronic >
      • EX / INTER / CHANGE
      • in the offing [fixed media version]
      • house of the future
  • BANTER
  • Writings
  • Teaching