Starlight

This is the final of three major pieces composed through a study of musique concrète. “Starlight” predominantly features asynchronous and spatialized tones taken from the first three chords of Arvo Part’s Spiegel Im Spiegel. The alternating yet melodic patterns are meant to evoke a sensation of harmonious randomness, inspired by the stars in the night sky and the specific act of stargazing. It is the first “loop” I composed – the piece is intended to loop again and again theoretically ad infinitum for full effect – and brings an end to the three-part series of compositions that started with the deep space journey of Voyager, to a faster-than-light speed journey into the solar system, and now ends with a familiar perspective of the celestial sphere from our own Earth.