Well, I did another Charity EP Jam. This year’s prompt was “Sanctuary,” and I wanted to take it in a slightly different direction. The story is a person struggling through a vast sort of emptiness who suddenly experiences a taste of an otherworldly realm, only for the vision to suddenly end and the vast emptiness to return.

To create this piece, I first wrote an eight-part chorale on paper. Then I reversed everything - the pitches, rhythms, tempo changes, and even the syllables in the lyrics. From there, I recorded myself singing the reversed version of the chorale, four times per part for a total of 32 recordings. Finally, I reversed the audio. So the final product contains a chorale which plays forwards but is sung backwards.

The album is available on Bandcamp, and all proceeds go to the charity Able Gamers.