This is a simple (faintly Japanese?) theme with a specific intended utility. We encourage you to download it, load it onto your phone, and listen as you stroll through DC's cherry blossoms in bloom.
Washingtonian Magazine featured this song in a recent piece you can find here
www.washingtonian.com/2016/03/25/this-is-the-perfect-piece-of-music-to-listen-to-when-you-see-the-cherry-blossoms/
This piece was commissioned by Hays & Ryan Holladay, Spring of 2010, for an unusual interactive performance event.
"Cherry Blossom Symphonette" was integrated into a larger work heard in a semi-aleatoric cassette boombox array held by many people on a guided walk through the blossom trees.
You can read more about the project here: bit.ly/9Z4bwf
Other collaborators in the work included Animal Collective, DJ Will Eastman, and Outputmessage. Ultimately the input was arranged as an expression of Hays & Ryan's vision and concept
Individual instruments were assigned to different cassettes with a kind of organic surround-sound intent. By their nature, cassettes play at different speed, so a kind of "tectonic drift" was part of the feel of the event.
Many onlookers mistook it as political protest, because it involved a large number of people "marching."
To learn more about the work of Hays & Ryan Holladay --- artists and thinkers I consider to be authentically brilliant --- visit their site at
www.hrholladay.com
released April 3, 2016
written & produced by Chad Clark
(c) 2016 Every Fleeting Thought Is A Pearl