Incorporating his travel experiences and love of nature, Forshee has written music for a wide diversity of musical forms and media. Much of his output is influenced by non-Western music and uses structural principles from Chinese, Indian, Indonesian, and early Western musics. This is an algorithmic and media - alone piece composed for physical modeling of the flute and plucked sounds. The contrast is the will or rather expression of an artist who talks and sings spontaneously along the background. These are used for stretching the modeled string of the plucked sound and thereby portraying the state of mind of an engineer.
Straw translates little whistles in spanish.
The piece also pretends to create an image of a walking flutist on a circle back and forth. Born in Barranquilla Colombia, Juan Reyes holds degrees in Mathematics and Music Composition. His research topics include physical modeling, and spectral modeling of musical instruments, algorithmic composition and their use for expression modeling. In the context of sound installations his works ppP and Los Vientos de Los Santos Apostoles have been presented in museums and galleries of Colombia. His writings have appeared on several international publications and his music has been performed around the world as part of contemporary music radio broadcasts and festivals.