East St. Louis Blues for piano and live electronics East St. Louis, Illinois, is a limbo between city and desert. Once a thriving center of American culture and home to artists like Miles Davis and Tina Turner, it has since become a non-lieu, where nature slowly erases human presence. East St. Louis Blues is the result of a psychogeographic j ourney in search of Mi l es Davis’ ruins, undertaken during a residency at Missouri University. The piece blends spectral analysis of early jazz recordings with live electronics, transforming echoes of blues and folk into an evolving, desolate soundsc...