Song

After going through multiple iterations of sounds, synths, and patterns, I settled on this slow progression of chords that sounds like it's being played by a group of string instruments. Halfway through, violin plucks begin to play, intermittently at first, then rapidly. After they reach their peak velocity, all sounds stop. From the silence emerges a rhythmic, electronic sound. Made by sampling and granular synthesizing the first half of the song, if you listens intently, you can hear skeletons of what had just been played. The rhythmic and repeating rising of the synth as the basis of the rhythm was inspired by the artist Goldfrapp, who my mother showed to me. The piece’s evolving structure mirrors the continual process of reinvention, where the past informs but does not constrain the future.