It’s always important to push one’s self into new fields. Given my traditional backgrounds and musical preferences, electronic music is often difficult for me to wrap my head around. Many of the skills and focuses that it requires are different from other styles of composition. That’s all the more reason to push into it. This piece, titled “Software Update”, is precisely made for that purpose. I gave myself a few days, little direction, and high restrictions in the voices and styles I could use, all as a means to force myself to evolve. In that sense, it was a means of updating my own software too. Just like computers, people change, upgrade, and unlock new and uncertain skills.
