I wrote this in my final year at university. After the difficulties of the large ensemble compositions I had done the previous year, I wanted to do a big work with a small number of people. This made a rehearsal a snap, they should tell you this stuff in composition school but I had to find out the hard way.

During a difficult time just after graduating 2000-2002, a good friend of mine Brian Pare and I were working convention audio in Ottawa. We shared a place and eventually moved to Toronto together. During this time I was continuing my exploration of computer media started in university under Laurie Radford. These are some of the [...]