What are the themes that inspire you most in your music??
I think broadly one of my largest inspirations are sonic qualities of ritual practice, which emphasize the relationship between sound, the mind, emotional affect, and spiritual resonance. I aim to capture space, atmosphere, and a specific sense of time in my music. This is drawn from various experiences, specific locations, and personal memory. There is not an overall theme, but there is recurring interest in "natural" sound, avoiding anthropocentric conceptions and connotations of sonic organization, and exploring invisible or unknowable qualities of spaces through sound. Studying cicada calls, the passage of water in cave systems and underground rivers, voice pathology, and whatever is most present and available to uncover in that moment.?
If you had a mantra/philosophy/phrase for where you are right now, what would it be??
It's really always the same, but 一期一会, one time, one meeting. Where I am right now, where you are right now, every moment is precious, unrepeatable, and sacred.?
Was there a particular moment or experience that set you firmly on the path to becoming a composer??
I don't think there was such a moment, in part because I wouldn't say that I am firmly on the path to becoming a composer. I think that I have a certain dedication to creativity, I have some sort of need (or obsession?) to produce work and it is in many senses the only way that I feel I can really communicate anything. I can admit an affinity with what falls under composition and music in general probably because its nature as a medium that exists in time while being ephemeral and intangible—qualities that tend to be symbiotic with my aesthetic and thematic tendencies.?
