Update

I've spent the past month reacting to the tech demo, the biggest question being: in exactly what manner is the piece related to the story of the Emerys and the murder of Jason Bass?  What level of literalness or abstraction?  This has always been a very tough question, but I believe I'm getting close to the sweet spot of this relationship.  Closer, at least.

I've been working a lot on content (music/sound, video).  And trying to figure out the best way to measure audience/performer proximity in the curtain room (see here).  I've been reaching out to performers and collaborators and will meet with dancer/actors Shura Baryshnikov and Peter Deffet (whom I've worked with before).  They're both fantastic.  We'll be meeting in the same space as the demo show (Mathewson St. Church) where I'll be doing more work with the installation stuff next month.

I haven't put any music up here, since I'm much more squeamish about putting in-progress music up than in-progress video or tech.  But here's the theme of the piece, which has been rattling around in my head for two years, and is for toy piano/fender rhodes. Though it pops up all over in one way or another during the piece.

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