This work started off initially as a one piece COVID project in 2020 of undergrad, at Texas State University. Originally, I had written the first movement (Grey) to get better at working on multi-track recording. At some point, I had written the second movement (Purple) to be sort of a mirror to the first movement. In 2024, after meetingAshley Hagadorn-Brien of Siren Strings TX, we had decided to collaborate on an entire string project based off of my fascination with sound as color and my synesthesia

I wanted to write music that came from the sounds I heard. From sounds that didn’t move in straight lines, but instead shimmered, refracted, and transformed like light hitting glass or memory shifting in and out of focus.

The pieces are less about traditional resolution and more about lingering in the spaces where tension, beauty, and fragility overlap.

Each movement has its own kind of landscape. Despite this, they’re all connected by this idea of something more luminous than heavy. For me, a single chord can feel like a painting: from one angle, it can be tender; from another it could be darker. That sense of resonance or of chords breathing, bending, and dissolving….is at the heart of this work.

This piece is available for purchase as the complete score, (parts included) or as separate individual movements (parts included).