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 For the past year I have been looking
 for ways to escape my own
 perspective by putting myself in
 weird situations. But shock in the
 form of terrorism propelled me into a
 different place. I imagine it is like this
 for a lot of people now, in uncertain
 times we find ourselves living more
 intensely in the present and asking
 the questions that have been lurking
 uncomfortably in the background,
 like what do we really believe in after
 all?

 "Happiness" is my way of looking at
 some of the things that both interest
 and trouble me: the evolution of behavior, how we learn and what we remember,
 expectations, the meaning of justice and the effects of increasing
speed; colored by the darker elements of doubt and fear.

 Every story should have a beginning, a middle and an end but as Godard has
 said "not necessarily in that order". I have never really trusted
traditional narrative and in this piece I am trying to move even
further away from it and express the way my own mind actually
works. In "Happiness" stories float and images recur in different
guises. I am not looking for conclusions but for another way to look
at the world.

 "Happiness" is also in part a self-portrait. In my past work, I have often
 mentioned things that I have seen or heard. This is the first time I have used
so  many experiences from my own life, which in this case has become a kind of
 touchstone for thinking about deception and fiction, the stories we
tell ourselves so that we can go on.

 In "Happiness" the music is a pulse and a metronome. The sounds are a
 combination of keyboards, violin, and digital processing as well as
several MIDI triggers. Finally, I get a lot of pleasure out of DJing
these sounds which allows me to improvise. Unlike the technically more
complex multi-media shows I often do, "Happiness" is meant to be
flexible and in the moment.