Zwei Parabeln nach Franz Kafka is a setting of two of Kafka’s parables—“Die Brücke” (“The Bridge”) and “Der Geier” (“The Vulture”)—for narrator, mixed choir, and pre-recorded computer music. The choir part is comprised of fragments from Kafka’s texts in the original German, while the narrator reads the complete texts in translation. The computer music is derived entirely from the choral music, which has been manipulated in order to extend the timbral and textural range of the ensemble.

Zwei Parabeln nach Franz Kafka was composed between January and May of 2006 for Henry Gibbons and Canticum novum, who first performed the complete work on 20 November 2006 at the University of North Texas.