Composed in 2022 for the Artist in Residence program at Falls Creek for guitar and loop station.

Guitar ensemble projects through the medium of video

Sessile Conversations grew out of research into the sensory corollaries of human to plant – what is seeing like for plant compared to what is seeing like for humans and how can that be explored through music?

I wanted to reference the emotional core of the song, the genre of the original song (Tin Pan Alley, Hilly Billy, Blues and Humorous/Novelty) and melodic/lyrical content. I have not reproduced large parts of the lyrical content, instead using fragments of the lyrics, sometimes more, sometimes, less and built a song around those fragments using my narrative guitar procedure, where all of the elements of the music are organized around story telling.