Heavily influenced by literature, poetry, and painting — which typically manifest as allusive or highly abstracted elements in many of his pieces — Kurt’s music explores themes of identity, artificiality, syntax, paranoia, longing, and corruption. Recently, he has undertaken an extensive project utilizing the poetry of Matthea Harvey, resulting in a series of works including pieces for bassist Scott Worthington, Ensemble Adapter, Ensemble Dal Niente, and culminating in a lengthy song cycle for soprano Liz Pearse and flutist Elise Roy setting Harvey’s pioneering work “the future of terror.”