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. This sound prism emerges from everyday life 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 the sound prism of everyday life within the rhythmic structure of the breath. These warped memories fluidly move from past to present in non-linear ways and manifest as episodic, implicit and false memories. In this composition, the layers of texture and timbre work to seamlessly combine both acoustic and electronic sounds by blending long durations of sound types together. 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.