“A tiny trace or spark of a specified quality or feeling: a scintilla of doubt.”

-Oxford Dictionary of English

 

SCINTILLA was created solely from electric guitar samples, showing how a fragment of sound can be extended into a technological sound world you would not have thought possible. Taking these samples, I titled the piece SCINTILLA as these traces and sparks in the fixed media create a feeling of wonder for the listener. Society has changed the way it listens to music. It is downloadable and accessible at any time and any where. Through SCINTILLA I explore the concept of how technology has expanded our listening today, for the better or worse… The electric guitar part is unlike the stereotypical roles and parts it gets to play. In composing something gentle and ethereal I wanted to represent the electric guitar in a different light, creating sounds unheard before.