Holly Roadfeldt - Piano and Looper Pedal

Hommage a Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) – Living life as a synesthete, Pollock’s work has always fascinated me.  Looking at these huge canvases, for me, is like setting off an explosion of sound in my head.  For this work, I wanted to try to represent that aurally.  Using his painting Convergence as a model, I assigned the various colors present in that work to different musical sonorities.  Then, I literally traced a path through the painting, and translated the painting into music.  The material on the looper represents the white/gray background, with the played material representing everything else sitting on top of it.

Hommage A Jackson Pollock (Official Album Version)

Counter Culture with BBE feat. Jeff Higgins - 11 October 2025

Holly Roadfeldt, Piano

Hommage a Hayao Miyazaki (b. 1941) – Miyazaki’s films have always been an inspiration to me.  Among my favorites are Princess Mononoke (1997), Spirited Away (2001) and Howl’s Moving Castle (2004).  Among his recurring themes of coming of age, war as folly, and having a strong environmental message, I have always felt this impending sense of inevitability in his storytelling.  In many of his films - Spirited Away in particular - the use of the clock as a metaphor is ever-present.  In this Hommage, I represent that feeling of inevitability through the metronome, as I tried to evoke the feeling of his films through the music.

Hommage A Hayao Miyazaki (Official Album Version)

Holly Roadfeldt - Piano

Hommage to a Broken Fairy Tale – This Hommage was like the others – written for a specific person. This author, who is a master of fantasy, whimsy, the fantastical and the morbid, wrote a poem called Instructions (on How to Survive a Fairy Tale) that I love.  In 2012, I set that poem for soprano and chamber orchestra and the music for this Hommage is inspired by that original song. In 2025 (shortly before the album’s release) some very disturbing revelations came out about this author which greatly disturbed and saddened me.  As a result, I decided to disassociate from this author and look at this piece as more of a tribute to those stories that once fascinated my imagination.

De l'obscurite II, for solo harp (2012)

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