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I visualize music as a linear puzzle. Where each piece of music is a complete puzzle but also a piece of another musical puzzle at the same time. The puzzles we are all familiar with have a solid form and substance, where each piece occupies a specific structure and a predetermined position, allowing the one who assembles it to fully experience the also predetermined schematic or virtual representation defined by its maker. This is one of the reasons why I've never been interested in these types of puzzles, as they insult creativity in every way.However, the music I create shares many common elements and is based around the same philosophy of assembling a generic puzzle, with some idiosyncrasies. I imagine the musical puzzle as something constantly changing and shifting without a predetermined form, until its completion is defined, then it manifests itself as something uniformed, a puzzle that has been determined. Musical puzzles are also those that have been recorded since the beginning of our history as a species, countless in number, some complex and some more simple and easy to digest.Thanks to today's technology, these puzzles can now form individual pieces of a new puzzle, where the assembler is also its maker, having full control over its size, depth and coloring, as well as the number of individual pieces required to crown it complete, according to his desire. It is now a new "composition" where it was undoubtedly created as something that did not exist before, although this new non-preexisting form cannot be encluded in the catalog of art according to some.The available pieces of a musical puzzle before its completion that would fit or contribute to its final imprint are inconceivably numerically large, making each final imprint an almost randomized process of discerning and re-shaping each piece, as unlike common pieces of a classic solid-form puzzle, the wave-formed musical pieces possess a fluidity to their membrane walls, allowing them to connect to almost any part of the puzzle and to almost any neighboring piece, which I personally find quite interesting.The process of building-assembling such a puzzle can be extremely time-consuming, frustrating and/or rewarding, depending on the initial vision, its implementation, the utilization of available resources or pieces and the search for them, and the end result once this has been determined from the "creator" and reached the stage of fruition. But it can also be a relatively quick and easy process. In addition to using the available parts of the musical puzzle, the maker can also create his own pieces of the puzzle, pieces that did not exist before and at his discretion complete it.This is also the goal I set a long time ago as a maker of such puzzles, to reach the point where I will be able to fabricate my own pieces, which did not exist nor conceived until the moment of their creation by me, assembling them in the order and position that desire but also deciding the number of these pieces that settle when I adjudge, making me the complete and sole creator of these puzzles from start to finish, until they are just a piece for someone else. Before that day comes though, I'll keep assembling.

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