This piece deals with my interest in both transitional musical materials and the transitive nature of sound itself, which disappears almost as soon as it is created. I have conceived the form of the piece as an exploration of transition, presenting numerous sounds in motion as they come into and out of existence in time, and showing them from several perspectives so as to allow the effects of time and transition to change the very nature of the sounds and suggest new meanings.

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.