Desde was writ­ten in the sum­mer of 2004 and is my first orches­tral work. In sev­eral of the pieces lead­ing up to Desde, I had begun exper­i­ment­ing with ways of deal­ing with the prob­lem of cul­tur­ally biased musi­cal per­cep­tion, which colours all musi­cal expe­ri­ences. This came about as I com­pared my non-classical music edu­ca­tion with the for­mal expe­ri­ences I received in uni­ver­sity, and I wanted to find ways to com­bine what I felt at the time to be sev­eral often-conflicting meth­ods of hear­ing music.