Polyptych (2025)

In Polyptych the conflicting attitudes harbored by a pianist towards their instrument - resentment, trepidation, urges for intimacy or control - are presented as a sequence of short musical movements, each a study on a particular technique relating to the anthropomorphized piano. Throughout the work, a grand piano is divided into a kind of theater - containing a cohort of smaller instruments and resonating bodies. The pianist is bound to this through a network of transducers and microphones on their fingers, which feeds back between performer and instrument. As an artefact that absorbs the experiences of its player, the piano of Polyptych then regurgitates music both new yet strangely familiar.