Solo Instrumental
Buffalo is a piece for solo piano dedicated to several of my friends and their families who have lost their mothers. It was inspired by a Laura Kasischke poem of the same name, from the collection Dance and Disappear. The poem is a meditation on motherhood, spirituality, loss, and the intimacy found within life’s small joys.​​​
Project CETI (Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a non-profit organization applying advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art robotics to listen to and translate the communication of sperm whales. I heard about Project CETI while listening to a news podcast; several members of the research team explained how they believe that sperm whales may in fact have their own alphabet,
which would mean they have their very own language. The researchers even used musical terms to describe their language, such as coda, tempo, and dynamics. Their efforts to connect, communicate, and build community are worth celebrating, and so I wrote a piece inspired by their work.
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