Last year, sympatico.ca email addresses were officially retired. What was lost is unimportant. The emailed word is ephemeral as the spoken word. Statements reign. Today's attention economy requires a constant stream of new information. This info is created at light-speed. We no longer have the luxury of time.

Paradoxically, the Internet both democratized and stratified the business of art, music, & film. Who, why, and how now matter far more than what, when, or where. Yet the short film, existing somewhere on the spectrum between the TikTok reel and the Hollywood feature, remains as a potent & affordable vehicle for provoking thought; one alternative to mass viral culture.

With the technological extension of consciousness more or less complete, it is now possible to live inside the artist. Faced with this Sisyphean task, the artist labours to make copies of themselves through their work, to construct uniform repeatable images for others to consume and reassemble. The line between living word & moving image has disappeared.

Over the course of three days in November, a series of piano cues was developed & recorded simultaneously, to create a small collection of variations for the contemporary filmmaker. A panorama of images had just been viewed out a car window.

The result is a transcript of unfolding musical impulse. Rather than a strict series of time-based cutdowns or isolated arrangement sections (the prevailing method of modern music libraries) these sounds for moving images are variated based on literary references, emotional abstractions, and musical games. Some harmonic structures offered themselves up for repetition in various registers; others demanded to develop their phrasing & melodic voice; some undertook deconstruction. Film-making & editing involves similar processes.

The music is presented in two forms: this public edition, sequenced for listening and to showcase the collection, and the sync edition, which includes all themes & variations + technical/metadata guides to facilitate track selection.