"It does not allow its self to be revealed"

Electroacoustic work for piano, processor, and Ableton LIVE.

An exploration of consciousness, awareness, dreamtime, from the piano's perspective.

I approach this acoustic/electric work with the simple question:

What if the work/instrument became self-aware?

What would it dream?

Commissioned for the Educational Center for the Arts New Music Festival VI

This is the world premiere, performed in the Arts Hall of the Educational Center for the Arts, in New Haven, CT.

A score will eventually be available for purchase, as will a sample-set used with specific instructions for mapping, and the template in Ableton.

In this performance I performed on an acoustic Baldwin 7-foot grand with two mics going into a Korg KAOSS DJ-Mixer, and an APC-40 controlling Ableton LIVE.

The work starts out purely acoustic, and actually comes from a magic square (row-box) I interpreted, and wrote down.

I am eternally interested in the Aboriginal descriptions of their "Dream-time" and this work is my own way of looking into a work, "dreaming itself".

As the work 'begins to dream'- it slips into the analog world, and then completely into the digital world, where I have samples of the pain, and playing the strings in harmonics (which come out sounding like bell-tones). I added the sounds of ECA students running down the halls, as well as the main stair rail being banged. The analog synth is my own beloved knob synth (sampled by me and 'played' via the APC-40).

This is only a portion of the live performance (unfortunately, the beginning was cut-off, and there were some distorted moments that I had to edit out, sorry. Stay tuned for the IN/EXOSPEKTRUM live recording coming soon!