figure-ground
for piano automaton
2026Written for OutHear New Music Week 2026
figure-ground explores the changes a material undergoes as it crosses perceptual thresholds through a gradual accelerando, and the listener’s experience of time that emerges from this process. Isolated vertical events gradually begin to cohere in perception, grouping into streams that come in and out of focus, shifting between foreground and background.
Premiered as part of the concert "In between bodies and machines," on April 19th 2026, Foyer (M2) Thessaloniki Concert Hall, Thessaloniki GR.
Winfried Ritsch, piano automaton