AFK Spring 2024 Concert - April 11th, 2025 at Tenri Cultural Institute

ft. Anju Aoto, clarinet and Minwu Hu, flute

Recorded by Aidan Gold and Brian Ellis

Video Editing by Aidan Gold

Often we are focused on individual moments, and we agonize over decisions as small as a single pitch in a complex texture. Sometimes when I’m struggling, I have to take a step back and think, how much does this decision actually matter? Why should I choose one over the other? Any small thing could have massive ripple effects further down the line, transforming ideas that I don't even know exist yet. At the same time, I have to make the decision somehow. Get something down, or else nothing gets done. Decisions are hard.

I find the idea of "choose your own adventure" scenarios interesting. You are presented with choices – ostensibly given agency over whether things are going, but with such a meticulously crafted scenario, how much control do you really have? How meaningful are the choices you make if every one of them had to be planned and accounted for?