ABSTRACT
As a pianist working predominantly within the Western art music tradition, the author usually performs music that has first been imagined by someone else. He sometimes collaborates with composers as pieces are developed, rehearsed and recorded, and has varying degrees of input into how certain aspects of a piece are shaped. For Remote Performances, he wanted to explore ways to imagine and create music collaboratively with local people, working in response to the surrounding environment. The author chooses to work with people who have musical backgrounds but who don't consider themselves to be composers, so that we could develop processes together and generate work that could not exist without our respective inputs. He spent three days working with two people who live locally shipwright Charlie Menzies and music lecturer Miriam Iorwerth. Moss by the boardwalk, spongy, with ferns growing through it like fingers.
