Requiem & Transfiguration

This twenty minute multimedia performance piece is both a historical and futuristic narrative, told through Keely’s emotive electroacoustic cello music and through projected and altered archival visuals (taken by Michael Pino's father who died from cancer acquired from exposure to Trinity Site radiation). There’s a sense of a generational grasp for healing, as the visuals that his son, Michael Pino displays through MindMapper are manipulated and appear to transform and transfigure themselves, showing abstracted beauty, and paralleling the intention of Keely’s song, Transfiguration. Keely's original electroacoustic looping cello compositions, Requiem and Transfiguration, tell a musical story of the ineffable loss, grief and anger due to Trinity Site impacts that were and are still felt. The song Transfiguration takes the struggle and moving from darkness to light, as the affected community moves forward by healing their families, land and communities. Keely has stayed in Carrizozo, NM on Pino Ranch, where Michael Pino's father lived when the Trinity Site disaster occurred, and has performed these songs on this land during ceremonies to help with healing.