Gating Light (2023) is a sound-reactive projection installation in collaboration with pianist Alexandra Prow that oscillates between and responds to the palindromic modal worlds of John Adams' 1977 composition, "China Gates." Leveraging the calculated mathematical construction of "China Gates" and its deceptive airiness, "Gating Light" forces digital representations of the natural world back into physical space, signaling an ongoing and exhausting allusion to climate anxiety. Light, image, and noise are 'gated' in the nuanced flux between shifting rhythmic patterns and modes, constructing and dissolving over a network of competing sonic, visual, and material textures. Responding to the breathless, unresting percussiveness of the piano, light pulses through and onto architectures of paper and plastic. Within these structures emerges a momentary space of calm – the sound of falling rain or the slow movement of a cloud – but all too soon we are trapped again between light and dark, clarity and obscurity, silence and noise.