This is the recording of the piece as it was created for the dancer/choreographer for whom I wrote it. I will likely post the version from the concert on July 27th at the Metropolitan Room when we have it. Here are the new program notes:
“The moon’s gravity causes the tides on Earth as it orbits the planet, it’s silent forces pulling the great mass of ocean along with it as it circles. These tidal forces are simultaneously affecting the moon, pushing the moon gradually into an ever faster orbit which widens by an extra inch every year. Moon, Tides, Cycles is a piece about this constant back and forth tugging that will, inevitably, in time push the moon ever farther away from us and out of our gravity. In this piece, the piano is miked and processed, the resulting electronic sound swelling and fading as the tides do during the lunar cycle. The electronic sounds are dependent upon the original sound waves coming from the piano, just as the Earth’s tides are dependent upon the gravity of the moon. The improvisatory and free form nature of the piece, as the two elements, electronics and piano, operate on each other in tandem, is an analogue to the delicate dance of the moon and the Earth in space, a beautiful dependency that cannot last forever, just as a child must leave its mother, a bird must fly from the nest.”