Electrobot (2012)

This group of ambitious students at the So Percussion Summer Institute gave me the surprising, unimagined opportunity to expand my strange idiosyncratic solo electroacoustic instrument approach into ensemble writing. They're reading a score that doesn't look like it sounds, and playing 2-octave MIDI keyboards to trigger samples that I created by recording myself playing old synths and step-sequencing beats. The New York director/choreographer/filmmaker Mark DeChiazza developed the projection idea, visually amplifying the small movements on the keys that become large gestures in the sonic space.