Now I’m Not Sure What’s Next

Anni Rossi “Ecology”

“Ecology” is a short, tightly constructed piece of music that evinces a deep fascination with natural order, particularly in the ways counter-intuitive behaviors can make sense within their specific contexts, but are nevertheless the part of a larger interdependent system of life on earth. In the middle of the piece, Rossi expresses non-specific confusion and uncertainty, which I read as a way of underlining the disconnect we can feel from these systems — they can seem so alien, so obscure, so totally disconnected from what we understand of our lives as humans. The composition reaches no conclusion on this matter — its structure ends as it begins, like a mental digression returning to a default position.

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