Tragedy Apotheosized
For Piano, Live Electronics, and Video Media
Nate Krebs (composer/electronics) and Koki Sato (piano) collaborate to create and premiere a new multimedia work for piano and live electronics. Built for Max/MSP and Jitter, the work explores the personal reconciliation of national history and cultural identity and its accompanying feeling of hopelessness. Generative and fixed performance materials are provided to the pianist, and in return are processed and diffused across a 4-channel system. A series of projectors are used to cast light onto the performer, and in-turn are processed by their performance. Together, these components aim to liquefy the marked boundary between the pianist and composer, representing the uncertain, fluid continuity of their identities that are interrupted and questioned.
Tragedy Apotheosized was premiered on 08/31/2024 in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.