Ziller's Story
March 15th, 2010
Future Music Oregon concert series
Winter 2009
This piece is performed using Symbolic Sound’s Kyma,
a real-time digital synthesis environment and the Wacom tablet as the control surface.
Ziller’s story utilizes text, as read by Alonzo Moore, from Tom Robbins’ book Another Roadside Attraction.
The text is a poem left by John Paul Ziller for his wife after she has experienced a devastating loss.
One cannot lose what was never found, just as even when something is lost, it is never gone.
This piece explores how text can be used as a background tapestry
to influence the unconscious awareness of time and space.
What we observe and accumulate through time always exists within us,
becoming part of our foundation and part of our experience.
One is meant to experience the full journey before the answer is revealed,
traveling from the tips of the mountains to arrive right in front of you.
February 27th, 2010