Duration: 10:00
 
For Wind Ensemble
 
Code 404 is not a programmatic work but it is influenced by programmatic elements. This piece represents AI essentially taking over until everything is destroyed. This is not meant to be a statement to personal beliefs - just a fun script for a sonic space. To accomplish this, I essentially have a “Hope” theme (meant to represent humanity), the communicating circuitry of the AI, and the “Evil” theme meant to represent the impending doom. The marriage and layering of these themes over the groove element of the AI circuitry gives the piece a structure that represents my compositional language. The title, Code 404, is the error message when a file is not found which perfectly fits the theme of the piece. I leave it up to the listener where they are in this mixture of hope and despair.