"Faces" genre: Contemporary
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	a dark, haunted work for percussion and computer-generated sound; "...excelled in juxtaposing live and recorded effects." —The Washington Post
	CD: Chamber Music   Label: Capstone Credits: Steven Hall, percussion
	Story Behind the Song Faces (1989) was written for Randall Eyles, who gave the premiere performance of the piece at the Corcoran Gallery of Art on April 3, 1989. The electronic score was realized at the University of Maryland Computer Music Studio on the Fairlight Series III Computer Musical Instrument. The title of the work is from a story of the same name by Yasunari Kawabata. In his "palm-of-the-hand" story, which is one and a half pages long, a child actress confronts the world outside herself for the first time when her child is born. Accustomed to the stage, where she could create a world of emotions for her audiecne, the actress could not understand her daughter's face, and felt the great moat between this world of reality and the world of the stage: "When she looked into that moat, she saw that it was pitch-black. Countless incomprehensible faces like that of her own child, appeared in the darkness." Yasunari Kawabata PalmoftheHand Stories Translation by Lane Dunlop and J. Martin Holman.

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