stereo electroacoustic track
5 min.
A Cellist on the Skytrain was composed in 2004, while I was an undergraduate student at Simon Fraser University (in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada). Being a music student, and a cellist, I would often have to lug my cello with me up to school, a journey which involved two bus connections and a skytrain. I have always been fascinated with the musicality of Metro Vancouver’s skytrains—the audible glissandi, the harmonic overtones, and the rhythmic motion of the trains were all things I could relate to as a string player. The piece is simply a field recording taken of one such journey to school, with a superimposed cello counterpoint.