Navigations

Navigations uses SuperCollider for its generative electronics — including FM synthesis and lots of controlled randomness in PBinds.

Program Notes

Practicing an instrument is often about retreading familiar ground, reinforcing muscle memory, and using repetition to learn how to move through your music-making-machine with precision and accuracy. Over time, your instrument becomes a long-standing commute. Its space is navigated with complete familiarity. If you’re not careful, you might set off on your journey, and not even notice you’ve been moving until you arrive at your destination — your movements becoming reinforced into muscle memory as they are repeated, and with familiarity it becomes more difficult to pay attention to them.

Navigations is a part of a long journey that I’ve felt is necessary with my instrument. Treating it like a new space to be explored, and searching for ways to interrupt the intimate familiarity I have with the layers of place, time, and memory that live inside my viola.