Lisa Cay Miller – prepared solo piano

SUN 18 MAR 2012, GOETHE INSTITUUT, AMSTERDAM (NL)

Lisa Cay Miller · prepared piano

Lisa Cay Miller is a pianist and composer from Vancouver, British Columbia. These miniatures were inspired by the short stories of Doris Lessing.

I. An old woman and her cat
‘Tibby would normally be hunting, the night was his time, but he had stayed with the old woman now for three nights.’

II. Through the tunnel
‘He was trembling with horror at the long, long tunnel under the rock, under the sea.’

III. A Mild Attack of locusts
‘Margaret looked out and saw the air dark with a criss-cross of the insects, and she set her teeth and ran out into it -’