Tangled Roots Project
I grew up surrounded by distinctly American music—jazz, blues, rock, folk, bluegrass, R&B. Though these influences have always shaped my work in electronic and electroacoustic music, I’d never intentionally written in those genres. This project deliberately explores that tangled mix of roots—outside my usual compositional comfort zone—mainly because it sounded like it would be fun while challenging.
I began each piece by writing charts and entering them into PG Music’s Band-in-a-Box (BiaB), using it to audition and export stems for drums, bass, rhythm, etc. Then came the deeper work: importing everything into Logic Pro, cutting and comping bars and phrases to shape coherent performances. I often worked in circular fashion, refining parts in response to others already in place. Some tracks include added loops or percussion; one replaces all BiaB parts with sample-based rhythm.