Piano Dreamscapes — Ice-Flow Isolation is the third in an ongoing series of works focused on transformations of piano improvisations done by the author in collaboration with Simon Henley (Leeds Beckett University) and Neusha Taherian (Columbia College). Composed in remote collaboration throughout late 2020 and early 2021, the piece explores concepts of isolation through spatialization, granular synthesis and spectral transformations. Improvisations dance throughout a frozen landscape, slowly taking on each other’s characteristics, breaking and reforming but never quite touching or changing each other’s musical trajectories. In the end, all that is left is a single pianist, playing alone in the dark…

Source: 2021