Every piece I write is an act of devotion and exploration. I choose something I love or care about or that I’m struggling with, and through the medium of music seek to understand it better, on a level more innate and intuitive than language. This is the process not only of creating the music, but of living inside it, falling in love with it, and giving time and attention to the subject I’m writing about. I hold process and product to be equal in value, and consider my music as much for the performers as for the audience. The sounds I work with are influenced my background in early music, modern Pagan chant, J-pop, contemporary choral music, and film scores. I view music theory as a descriptive, rather than a prescriptive tool, and allow composition to be an intuitive, emotion-driven process informed, not dictated by theory. I love a modal melody, a driving beat, a drone, a good suspended chord, an asymmetrical rhythm, a tasteful minor ninth, and a wide open fifth.