just trying to do what I’m told and keep up and do the best that I can (2025) puts the pianist in an increasingly difficult situation where they are asked to respond to a series of instructions which get progressively harder to follow. The piece reflects on the experience of managing situations where the flow of information and requirement to respond accurately and efficiently becomes overly taxing and impossible to maintain. In these situations, coping strategies might be developed to find a manageable solution or to accept defeat. In the piece, artificial voices are fed text instructions to create live-generated sequences that are not known in advance by the pianist, forcing them to respond to each instruction as they hear it. The unforgiving nature of the artificial voices delivering instructions with no accountability or reciprocity with the human player aims to reflect on situations where control is beyond us but we must still complete the arbitrary tasks we are given.