My Parents’ Phone Number (2010), for rotary phone and four-channel electronics, is entirely comprised of sounds from a rotary phone. The piece begins with the dialing of Peter and Rebecca Greene’s phone number, (973) 763-4395 (no calls during dinner, please) repeated in canon, and proceeds through various manipulations of each individual dial. The ringer bell is then introduced, and the two sources – dial and bell – form overlapping cascades of subtly varying repetition streams. The result, a hectic array of building and dissolving tensions, serves to depict the composer’s state of mind during a call to his parents.