Refractions for fixed media (2025)

Refractions evokes a space where natural and artificial soundscapes converge and transform. Built from archival field recordings made in Kansas City parks (2013–14), it captures both the ambient vitality of nature and the subtle hum of human presence. Interwoven with piano resonances and the timbres of metal, glass, and water, the piece refracts the familiar like light through a prism—bending, dispersing, and reassembling it into a shifting spectrum of sound.

The piece is a study in transformation and distortion—its refracted gestures trace the irregular pulse of recollection, where memory shifts between moments of clarity and dissolution. In this ambiguous space, the boundaries between nature and artifact blur and bend, and echoes of the past shimmer briefly before dispersing into silence.

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