At the start of this project I had been immensely inspired by the catalogue of music written for the Snare Drum commissioned by Tom Sherwood. I wrote this piece as a chance to find my voice through an instrument I don’t play frequently. All of the material in the piece is meant to evoke the title “Blossom”. The refraining motif is a feathered gesture intended to sound like blossoming. One of my favorite patches to improvise with is the vocoder. Using vocoding, all sound blossoms from and through the snare drum, something I was quite excited about. I wrote this piece during a period of burnout and I like to view it now optimistically having found a way to create music that I am proud of. A necessary reminder to myself that motivation and inspiration is always bound to blossom again if given time.

Written for Tom Sherwood and Ajay Wadhwani