The Things We See
for Oboe and Wind Ensemble
duration: 10’30”
The Things We See is a piece about navigating the world around us with the joy, wonder, anxiety, and fear that brings. It consists of four distinct musical ideas that begin to rotate more and more rapidly as the piece goes on. Everyday my brain is assaulted by an endless amount of information and choices like when I open Facebook or Instagram and have to confront the falsely perfect representations that we all present or when I open Netflix only to stare at it for ten minutes and then close it because I cannot decide what to watch. I wanted to create a piece that spoke to those anxieties, one that despite its overall bright and bubbling surface speaks to the conflict that I and millions of people fail to resolve every day.