"I was initially inspired by Eiko Ishibashi’s beautiful soundtrack to the film Drive My Car and how she wove the sounds of the car, of driving so seamlessly into the music and I wanted to see how I, too, could incorporate this notion of driving along per se into my own piece. But the more I worked on it, the more it evolved into something different altogether.
I started with the sound of the handbrake. I wanted it to be almost like a clock ticking. You know it’s there, but sometimes you don’t always notice it (the handbrake, or time). It then took a while for me to fully realize what I wanted to do with the composition, but I knew I wanted the music to represent a journey of some sort.
I’ve been struggling with stress, burnout and self-doubt, especially this past year, to the point I didn’t feel as present or feel like myself. So in a sense, this piece became about a journey of letting go. Letting go of those worries and stress; letting go of the expe
