Asher - Opus (2024)

After many years of using loops in my compositions I have recently been trying to move away from that.

For the past several months I have been working on compositions which are made by producing fragments of various materials which are then combined into a long form work. I’ve worked in a fragmentary way in the past but I’ve not previously taken the further step of editing those fragments to create one long composition with overlapping segments.

Working in this way has allowed me to find continuity within my process, while creating compositional forms which are quite different from anything in my previous body of work.

Opus was composed using three elements which are layered throughout. One is a series of harmonic sections played on a synthesizer, another is a set of location recordings which were made while walking around my neighborhood over a number of days, and the final group are rhythmic motifs which were produced using filtered noise.