Push Pull (1995)

The celletto is the cellist's answer to all the fun keyboard players have been having lately with live computer 
synthesis. Push Pull is a setting for an "augmented player" where the computer fuses with the performer. 
Instrumental gestures are caught by the machine and launch off into a life of their own. The soloist begins 
the seeds of what happens and can enter into dialogue with the musical textures that evolve. The work was a 
study for a piece for singer and computer sponsored by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.