At the root of many established music genres is a relatively small set of characteristics that make the music what it is. In rock music this set consists of elements such as energy, drive, distortion, and a reduction of spatial depth—a feeling of the music always being in your face. In this work I have extracted a few of the elements of rock music that I feel are most characteristic of the genre, distorted them and placed them in an electroacoustic setting. The result is a work that is timbrally, gesturally and formally rich with rock implications, yet absent of the specific details of rock music (ie. traditional parts, chord changes, and words).
