Natural Death

by Jacob Pouley

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This piece was composed as part of a final assignment for the Death and Dying class at Fairhaven College. His notes say: "For natural death, the scenario I chose was a peaceful one. The dying person is in a comfortable place, receiving limited medical aid and is surrounded by their loved ones. As the track begins, I wanted to depict the inevitability of the death; it is not surprise to anyone present that this family member is on the way out. The different musical threads represents the cyclical emotional stages that everyone is feeling as they remember the good times as well as make the most out of the present. Eventually, the sick person slips away and the room stands still, as the moment that they had all built up to and brace for has come and gone. I chose a slower, more modern approach to this song. The repetition of patterns was inspired by Phillip Glass' Einstein on the Beach Opera, and I felt it was the best way to convey not only a dialog, but one from multiple perspectives."

Born in 1986, Jacob Pouley is a Seattle native living in Bellingham. Since childhood he has always been interested in audio and acoustics, playing with tape recorders and keyboards as far back as he can remember. When not juggling knives and playing with fire at his job as a teppanyaki chef, he finds time to write creatively and create audio compositions. Generally recording with computers now, Jacob works mostly in the Cubase environment, though like any good recording artist, has been known to use any wide array of recording methods to find unique sounds.

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