for digital piano and 8 or 12-channel interactive electronics
Garden of our own draws inspiration from an anonymous 14th-century French madrigal text that describes a garden with unattainable and perplexing beauty. Aware of the unworldly nature of the scene, in the ritornello of the text ("So that my heart takes there all its rest"), the protagonist finally dissolves into this imaginary world.
In this piece I draw a connection between the madrigal text and the way we immerse ourselves in our digital lives, creating realities separate from our lives in the physical world. Garden of our own blurs the sounds of the sampled grand with real-time and fixed manipulations of that sound. The premiere was in April 2019 at James Turrell's Skyspace Twilight Epiphany and was revised for the Studio 300 Digital Music and Art Festival at Transylvania University in October 2019. It was selected for performance via a call for scores by Frame Dance of Houston for performance at the Midtown Arts & Theater Center in January 2020.