Long Way Around
One thing I miss in electronic music is the immediacy of acoustic instruments. The liveness and complexity of a viola or bassoon and the scale of an orchestra are just hard to imitate with synthetic sounds, and though electronic music doesn't always needs these qualities, they can add real power to a sound. Long Way Around refers to creating a synthetic orchestra by recombining instrumental samples, an indirect ensemble rather than going straight to the real thing.
While writing this music, I was basically taking apart some assumptions I made about writing acoustic music, as well as conveniences that I took for granted—how instruments naturally blend, how they play legato melodies, how the room adds ambiance. The individual titles tell this story in metaphor, how a structure we live with can disappear and reveal something new. If the roof falls in, we see the sky. When the floor falls out, we stand on the ground. We can still climb the stairs but they might not lead where we thought they did.
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