Two Sides
Two Sides was made on a modular synthesizer, which is an instrument of near infinite sound design and compositional possibilities, yet with a limitation: nothing is savable. This is akin to writing a novel in a word processing document that can’t be saved. Meaning, you create and shape the work, commit to decisions, record the result, and walk away.
My creative practice foregrounds process, and Two Sides is a manifestation of how creative tools dictate process. The resulting piece of music is not determined by a preconceived conceptual idea, but rather by enacting various tools and processes along the path of creation. I call my work “experimental” for reasons of genre, that is, to define its context within a larger body of artistic works that exist in culture. But also experimental in the scientific sense, as in a process whose result is unknown at the outset.
Two Sides, along with other of my compositions, are part of the soundtrack for my in-progress essay film that is currently in the editing phase. Below is a short, rough-cut trailer from the film: