The piece uses sampled libraries and synthesizers, made in a DAW. In the first half, the piece mainly features long, pitched tones which blend using the technique above, becoming slowly denser and denser over time. I begin to introduce layers of granular synthesis and ring modulation more and more, distorting the piece until it becomes a dense texture of short, sharp noises at fast rates. These include keys jangling, glass falling on the ground, culminating with sirens and bells. Over time, the piece decays, referring to the starting material as an echo of its former self.
prismatic zephyr
This piece is about capturing perception, carried along the rhythm of the breath. Our memories are fluid, taking interactions and goals and changing them over time. These can manifest as false memories, recollections of things that never happened. In the piece the music works to smoothly combine both acoustic and electronic sounds by blending timbres of long notes as much as possible. The envelopes of sound blend into each other smoothly, where the decay of the acoustic instrument fits into the slow attack of the digital synthesizer.