Rung Past Unending Glimmer is a work for seven voices conceived through an amplified, algorithmically driven sampler. Each voice is a distinct waveform tuned to just intonation, forming a microtonal field shaped by beats, instability, and suspended harmonic movement. The piece questions whether creative agency must remain tied to a single originating force. It rejects the idea that violence, hierarchy, or suffering are inevitable characteristics of a divinely predetermined order and treats refusal as a necessary act. The music seeks ways of sounding that do not simply reproduce the conditions of the world as it is.
Tolkien’s creation myth, in which the world is sung into existence under a single divine will, appears here as a distancing frame for examining the sacred order. Sound becomes a metaphor for the creation of the world and for directing the will toward a possible exterior to the imposed design. References to the European organ tradition, long linked to religious authority, are placed in a microtonal context that avoids resolution and a stable foundation. This questioning of who is allowed to create within sacred systems also reflects a lived negotiation with imposed categories and limits, linking the work’s sonic stance to experiences of gender restriction and self-determined transformation.
