An Exploded View of Time is an album of seven compositions for solo alto saxophone exploring the perception of time and the power of sound and music to reveal truths about the nature of reality. The album is the culmination of a multi-year exploration of extended techniques for the saxophone. I was specifically focused on the technique of circular breathing, the posibilities of polyphonic textures on a monophonic instrument, and the melodic potential of the harmonic series.

Cult Appeal is an album of pieces for solo alto saxophone and synthesizer, composed between 2013 and 2015.

The Great Outdoors is a suite of generative audio visual work that explores visual perception, artificial intelligence, and the boundary between composer and algorithm. The Great Outdoors runs in the web browser, and can be viewed www.andrewbernste.in/thegreatoutdoors .

Since 2010, one of my primary and most active collaborations has been with the Max Eilbacher, Owen Gardner, and Sam Haberman in the quartet Horse Lords. We have composed, recorded, and released three seven albums, been commissioned by galleries, publications, and conservatories, toured internationally, and performed hundreds of concerts. 

Horse Lords' music is collectively composed and I play an active role in the generation and development of musical ideas. In live performance, I play primarily alto saophone and auxiliary percussion, alternting counterpoint with Owen Gardner's electic guitar and Sam Haberman's drumset. 

Since 2007, I have actively engaged in a practice of free improvisation, performing spontaneuos music with countless musicians, movement, and visual artists. In 2010, I became a member of the High Zero Collective,  the organizing body of the High Zero Festival of Exprimental Imropvised Music. This practice has pushed my playing, particularly on the alto saxophone, to new heights, and challenged me to develop a personal vocabulary on my instrument. 

Included here is a recording of a group improvisation from the 2011 High Zero Festival  in which I am joined by Oluyemi Thomas (reeds), Nathan Ellman-Bell (percussion), John Berndt (saxophones, electronics), Shana Palmer (electronics), David Watson (bagpipes, guitar) and Rose Burt (reeds).

I have also included a video of a performance from the 2015 High Zero Festival which includes Michael Zerang (percussion), Caroline Marcantoni (movement), Jamal Moore (reeds), and Heejin Jang (electronics).

Since 2013 I have created several pieces of intermedia installation art, inclduing interactive sound and video work, kinetic sculpture, and generative light and shadow paintings. 

Since 2008 I have composed several pieces for dance, theatre and film. This work has included collaboration with choreographers Mathew Heggem, Linda Garofalo, Claire Cote, and Lily Susskind, The Annex Theatre company, and filmmaker Mary Helena Clark. These were fruitful collaborations which pushed my work in new directions, and provided outlets for new creative ideas.