Reflect/Refract

(with Taylor Donofrio)


Year 2021 • Instrumentation piano, granular piano, movement, video • Length 15 min



Live performance (via teleconference) in Spring, 2021 



Reflect/Refract [Thurston/Donofrio; 2021]

Collaboration between myself and choreographer/dancer Taylor Donofrio exploring the isolation and depersonalization of remote education in the COVID-era. The frustration of staring at a flat video mirror of ourselves for hours a day, and the fight to connect with others through that distance.

Piano layered with live-manipulated granular piano.
Above performers:

Taylor Donofrio - movement/video

Tyson Thurston - music/video

Piece prompted and guided by Dmitri Chamblas and David Rosenboom. 



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