Nearly all the original sound material for incandescence was extracted from Iannis Xenakis' Persepolis. This material was transformed by such processes as fragmentation, scrambling, distortion, comb filtering and reverberation, using programs I wrote in Max/MSP.

Composed during a Djerassi Artists Residency in May 2003. Many thanks to Naut Humon of Asphodel Records for his generous and energetic support, and to all the people of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, without whose “gift of time” this piece would never have been written.

incandescence was a finalist in the competition Musica Nova 2006 and in the VI International Contemporary Music Contest Città di Udine 2006.