Cities And Memory

"The sound of modern humyns chipping away at solid rock searching for ancient organisms that have been turned to stone through pressure and time... the percussion of tool use was the perfect place to start, maybe the use of tools is where the idea of instrumental music came from in the first place... thoughts of musical evolution as humyns evolved with as much slowness as the forces that turned those organisms into solid rock... gradually multiplying percussion lines are kinda like the evolving complexity of life. 66 million years is an inconceivable length of time. at one point in the recording, you can hear a humyn voice, so i isolated that voice and stretched it out and used it as a melody line... as humyn voices mix with percussion, thoughts of the primal nature of percussion and voice, how ancient is this kind of humyn sound? sonic heritage indeed.  "The piece ended up having three movements: the first is the percussive rhythmic stomp of humyn activity... i pictured more and more humyns adding their par