Selected Compositions

Cassia writes music for unique situations and for special places. Her work is often composed for friends and colleagues in order to highlight aspects of their musicality that she admires.

Drishti–the Hiatus Edition

Text by Stephen Osborne
Percussion by Tim Feeney
Audio mixing by Colbert Davis

This piece was put together over the course of a few months in the spring and summer of 2020, while much of the world was experiencing a hiatus of sorts

Game Time–version for Autoduplicity

These booklet pieces, all titled Game Time, are intended to be performed by 12 or more performers with no rehearsal. They have been performed by The Dog Star Orchestra, The Ghost Ensemble, and other gatherings of folks. In this video, you can see a clip of Autoduplicity bringing the piece for the audience of their event in 2019.

For Hans-commissioned by Patty Osborne

This piece was commissioned as a part of the Little Chamber Music Series during the 2020 pandemic in memory of Vancouver violist and educator, Hans Karl Piltz. The text is taken from various letters and emails between the Hans and Patty, longtime artist friends.

The sound you hear is the one you replace

This piece was premiered at the Dog Star festival in Los Angeles in 2018. The performers are listening to the speakers that are embedded in the moving walls and reproducing the sounds they hear as they approach the ultrasonic sensors. The speakers are getting quieter as the performers grow louder. Two non-instrument performers are organising the walls according to a blueprint for a house that is under construction.

Modular Tree; A String Quartet

This recording is from a live performance by the Isaura String Quartet in 2017. Each quartet member is responsible for one of the coloured branches on the tree depicted. They have small exciters mounted to the backs of their instruments that are playing the sounds of popcorn kernels falling into a teacup. The number of “pings” guides them through the score.