You discover a tape deck that, when you insert different tapes, transports you to entirely new places. At first, you explore with fascination, but soon you become aware of something: a presence that follows you through each world. On the side of the device, you find a jog wheel that lets you shift around within these places. Curious, you experiment with it, translating and rotating through different locations. But as you do, you realize something is wrong: you are being chased.
You try to evade your pursuer, rapidly switching between places, shifting your position in the Universe. In your attempt to escape, you stumble upon a new place: No Where, a void beyond space and time. It is empty, full, absolute. Believing you have finally lost what was following you, you return to the Universe and continue exploring. But something has changed. The places you visit are not as they were before. They are different now: subtly, irreversibly altered.
Programmed on University of Virginia's computer music festival Digitalis 2018, the 2019 San Francisco Tape Music Festival, the 2025 Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States Conference.