This is a quick sketch created here at Simphony Music School in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

I titled it Order and Chaos for a few reasons:

Phnom Penh is one of the more chaotic places I've lived, and I've had to find or create little pockets of order in the world around me to maintain my sanity.

The track reflects the juxtaposition in its instrumentation:We have the squeaky clean, quantized digital percussion sounding against the organic, imperfect upright piano recording.

The music reflects the contrast as well with its loose form, wandering about as much as moving forward.

It was fun creating this with some pretty severe limitations:  I only have Ableton Live and its stock plugins, and have to freeze tracks to work on my poor little PowerBook G4, which is 56 dog-years old...

Enjoy!


ML