This is hereby monsters.

I've been in my last few weeks of living in the United States.

Even small moves for me can feel distressing sometimes, and this is an awesome move.

And so lately I've been looking for new ways to feel stillness even when there's lots

of motion around me.

On this episode I want to share with you something I've made that's helping me call

my nerves.

I can't exactly tell you why it works, but maybe if you also feel like you could do some

calming, maybe it'll help you too.

So this thing I've been working on, it's an idea that I've adapted from the composer

Steve Reich.

And Steve Reich is a composer who makes a lot of work using this idea that he calls phasing.

And in the Reichs sense, phasing is this idea that if you play the same rhythm with multiple

layers playing at different speeds, then something really simple can turn into something

really complex, these really intricate patterns that emerge and develop as different layers

of the rhythm pass over each other in different phases.

In the 1960s Steve Reich made a piece called violin phase, that sounds like this in the

beginning.

And as more layers come in and as the different pieces get out of phase with each other,

it sounds like this a couple minutes in.

And here it is a couple minutes later.

The piece never repeats, every moment in it is unique.

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