Bloodroot

A small masterpiece, *'Bloodroot'* is a series of compositions for prepared piano, with and without electronics. Blurring distinctions between acoustic music and electronic music, *'Bloodroot'* also unearths the venerable prepared piano as a proto-avant-garde ancestor of today s electronic music, splitting off shards of shimmering bell and bow tones that lay hidden as latent possibilities within the strings. **Kelly Moran** takes the prepared piano on an evocative journey that calls up the ghosts of a supernatural gamelan and makes them dance in a land neighboring **John Cage's** imaginary landscapes.