Program Note:

When people are put into a confined space completely absent of light, their eyes eventually start to produce images. These images are similar to the soft, fuzzy, blob-like shapes you see if you shut your eyes hard, but they can become quite vivid. This phenomenon is called prisoner's cinema, since people who have spent a lot of time in solitary confinement report it.

​I sought to create a tone poem of prisoner's cinema with my piece. The two movements represent two sessions of it. Surges depicts flowery, pillar-like bright light. Splinters depicts fainter, bleaker slivers of light, more spread out, occasionally bursting.

Performances:

• Robert Burkhart, Jennie Brent, Daniel Zlatkin, Lydia de Leeuw, and Peter Sachon, National Sawdust, Brooklyn, New York, May 10, 2017.

• Andrew Plaisier, Kelsee Vandervall, Daniel Zlatkin, Jessica Hu, and Lydia de Leeuw, Britton Hall, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 7, 2017.

• Robert Burkhart, Raman Ramakrishnan, Daniel Zlatkin, Stanley Moore, and Rylan Gajek-Leonard, Bitó Performance Space, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York, May 5, 2014.