Reflect/Refract
(with Taylor Donofrio)
Year 2021 • Instrumentation piano, granular piano, movement, video • Length 15 min
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.
Taylor Donofrio - movement/video
Tyson Thurston - music/video
Piece prompted and guided by Dmitri Chamblas and David Rosenboom.