RORY BRICCA
COMPOSER
Since age five, my favorite hobby has been spontaneously making up music on the piano. What comes out is often classically-inspired while also incorporating jazz harmonies, melodies from pop songs, or influences from whatever music has been running through my mind recently. Get a taste here:
Improvisation in E Major
Performed at the Berger Performing Arts Center in Tucson, Arizona, May 14, 2022. The first and last 30 seconds were pre-composed, the rest was improvised.
Acqua Alta OST
A set of piano improvisations for Lily Selthofner's interdisciplinary experimental performance art piece Acqua Alta, to be accompanied by live improvised cello and opera.
Exploring the Cognitive Science of Improvisation
Read a paper I wrote for the Yale class Introduction to Cognitive Science with Professor Brian Scholl in which I apply concepts such as modularity of mind to better understand the "cognitive algorithm" behind my improvisation skills: