Cristina Spinei - Moved by An Interior Impulse

[upbeat instrumental music] All my music has some kind of element of loops in it, whether it's this new album or Convection Loops or some of my solo piano writing.

I'm really drawn to patterns.

And I was just talking about this today.

I had a little performance here in Nashville, and I find anyway, I always have to sit down at the piano first when I compose, and I always have to find a pattern.

Whether I use it later or not, doesn't matter.

It's, it's like the grounding structure of my work, and sometimes it remains there, and sometimes I build on top of it and just let that pattern go.

I think it has a lot to do with dance, too, of movement needing time to unfold.

And if there's a loop, it gives you enough breathing room to kind of let that movement unfold.

So I think the more I worked with dance, the more into loops I got.

Uh, so that's the common strain in all of my music, is that there's some kind of patterns, some kind of loops that unfold and develop.

Uh, or sometimes they just stay the same and get built on top of until you can't recognize it anymore.

But yeah, that's my basic building block.

That's composer Christina Spinney talking a little bit more about her...

That's composer Christina Spinney talking about her musical process and the importance of patterns and loops in her music.

She has a new album out called Moved by an Interior Impulse, and I'm going to be featuring a lot of that album on the show today.

Welcome to Relevant Tones.

I'm Seth Boustead.

I opened with a piece called "Motus" from this album by Christina Spinney, and it has a, well, a pretty interesting origin story.