1963 – String Quartet (11 min)
Glyphs for piano (8 min)
1964 – String Trio (9 min)
1965/66 – String Quintet – revision of String Quartet (11 min)
1967 – Objects and Interruptions – for flute, trumpet, cello, piano, electric organ (10-14 min)
1969 – Incidents in Green Miz-Maz – for any number of string players and/or pianists (duration variable) for a percussionist and two horns (11 min)
1968/70 – A Book of Offerings
five pieces which may be performed separately or as a set
1 for flute and bells (7 min)
2 for electric (or chamber) organ and a sustaining instrument (5 min)
3 for solo cello (9 min)
4 for flute and cello (6 min)
5 for horns and trombones (7 min)
1972/73 – A Book of Emblems and Songs
seven pieces which may be performed separately or as a set
1 for voice and bells (7 min)
2 Play – for two woodwind instruments and violin (4 min)
3 The Hanged Fiddler – for violin, percussion and a sustaining instrument (5 min)
4 The Inner Garden – for soprano, flute, alto saxophone, trombone, violin and percussion (9 min)
5 The Shining Youth – for one or three trumpets (2 min)
6 Quick, Quick, the Tamberan is Coming – for four bass flutes (8 min)
7 The New Born Child – for soprano with or without violin (4 min)
Unison 1- 4 – four separate pieces for a variable small ensemble of sustaining instruments (not more than one from any family of instruments), plus female voice
1973 – Unison 5 – for variable ensemble of sustaining contrabass instruments (9 min)
Unison 6 – for variable ensemble of not less than seven brass instruments (21 min)
1974 – Frog – two pieces for a bowed stringed instrument (7 min)
1974/77 – Melodies – a work in 25 movements that can be adapted to instruments of various cultural origins, some that have to be specially made, and voices. Each movement is a melodic study in intonation (total 90 min)
1975 – I Await the Sea’s Red Hibiscus – for solo cello (10 min)
Piece for Koto – in koto tablature (2 min)
For a Singer – for female voice (5 min)
1977 – On, On, It Must Be So – for shakuhachi, bass drum and castanets (9 min)
Wheat – for shakuhachi and percussion (14 min)
1978 – Quite White – for shakuhachi (8 min)
1979 – A Fragile Thread – two pieces for a bowed stringed instrument (7 min)
1980 – Apocrypha 1 – for solo cello (8 mins)
Apocrypha 2 – for solo cello (8 mins)
1982 – Fiery Earth-Womb – for three male voices with hand-held percussion (7 min)
1983 – After the Rain – for shakuhachi, violin, seven ocarinas (three players) and percussion (16 min)
1984 – Winged Play – for solo shakuhachi (11 min)
Passages – for flute/piccolo, clarinet, violin/viola, cello (17 min)
1986 – Marine Residua – for shell trumpets (three players), viola and two percussionists (15 min)
Stalks – for shakuhachi, bass recorder and viola (10 min)
Music for Two Performers – for two male vocalists with hand-held percussion (7 min)
1987/88 – A Monkey’s Paw – for solo violin, four female voices, three male voices (with eunuch flutes), five percussionists (with non-standard instruments), tin whistle, melodica, banjo, tuba, and three contrabass ocarinas (29 min)
Quartet (from A Monkey’s Paw) – for violin, tin whistle, banjo and melodica (4 min)
1988/90 – Quartet – for bass flute, cimbalom, steel pans and double bass (11 min)
1989/90 – Towards the Darkness – for three double basses, three flutes (tin whistles and plunger flutes), two percussionists (non-standard instruments) (11 min)
1990 – Broken Music – for flute, contra-bassoon, melodica, cello, harp, banjo, two percussionists (non-standard instruments) (14 min)
1991 – Archaeology – for bass flute, bass trombone, two percussionists (non-standard instruments) (12 min)
The Tender Sadness of Tyrants as They Dance – for shakuhachi and bass flute (18 min)
1992 – Finding Refuge in the Remains – for soprano voice, bass flute/melodica, autoharp, bass trombone, double bass, two percussionists (non- standard instruments) (15 min)
1993 – Contained in a Strange Garden – for mey (or crumhorn) and percussionist (five adapted berimbau, various earthenware bowls, cowbells, gongs) (11 min)
1991/94 – The Fish That Became The Sun – for four female voices, four male voices (with eunuch flutes), seven percussionists (non-standard instruments), solo violin, sitar, mandolin, cimbalom, three double basses, contra-bassoon, harmonium, four woodwind players (specially adapted organ pipes/crumhorns), two woodwind players (various whistles and shell trumpet), two child vocalists (aged 5-7), eight cornets off-stage) (47 min)
1994 – Resonances of Ancient Sins – for octobass flute, contrabass saxophone, bass tuba and percussion (wooden box) (8 min)
1994/95 – Beneath the Fired City – original version for 2 percussionists (non-standard instruments) (12 mins) revised version (2001) for 4 percussionists (non-standard instruments) (12 mins)
Out of the Shattered Shadows 1 – for flute(s), tenor banjo, spinet/harmonium, percussion (non- standard) (13 min)
1997 – Unnamed – for solo shakuhachi (47 mins)
1998 – Out of the Shattered Shadows 2 – for four male singers, two flutes, viola, percussion, and three off-stage musicians: low female voice, cornett, violin (15 mins)
1999/’00 – Prison Song – for flute, clarinet, violin, trombone/melodica and percussion (15 mins)
2001 – Faint Traces – for violin, cello, flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, male voice, percussion and trombone (13 mins)
2002/03 – Tentative Thoughts, Silenced Voices – for muted violin, muted viola, Indian santur, two percussionists (special instruments), male vocalist 1 (with whistling tube) male vocalist 2 (with 6 concertina reeds) male vocalist 3 (with eunuch flute) offstage: trumpet (16 mins)
2004 – Woman, Viola and Crow – for female violist who also sings etc (12 mins)
2004/05 – Ghosts Again – for violin, muted violin, female voice, flute, clarinet, two percussionists (special instruments) six male vocalists with heavy percussion staves (13 mins)
2005 – Two Beacons – for female voice, muted violin, Indian sarangi (or viola d’amore), muted double-bass, 3 flutes, 2 percussionists (special instruments), offstage: mixed choir, behind audience: french horn (15mins)
2006/07 – Mother, Child and Violin – female vocalist, child vocalist, muted violin (9 mins)
2007 – Riverine Delusions – muted violin, muted cello, bass flute, bass clarinet, bass trombone, percussion (11 mins)
2008 – Woman with Jurashi Shakuhachi – female jurashi shakuhachi player who also sings (10 mins)
2009 – A Woman Singing – for unaccompanied female voice (11 mins)
2010 – Two Voices with Axe – for male and female voices, flute, muted violin, muted viola, double bass, percussion (2) (14 mins)
Whispers – 17 pieces for solo male voice (with hand held percussion) and off-stage violin (18 mins)
2012 – The Colours of Jellyfish – soprano solo, violin solo, small orchestra and childrens choir (28 mins)
2013 – Two Female Voices and Two Flutes – for two female voices and two flutes (12 mins)
2014 – Beyond the boundaries of Intimacy – solo flute (15 mins)
2015 – A Linear Topography – small orchestra and shamisen (15 mins)
2016/17 – String Quartet 2 (20 minutes)
2017/18 – Screens – female voice, flute, violin, viola, two percussionists, speaker (18 minutes)