"I originally thought the recording that I would produce might reflect the lovely, peaceful time of the year in New York which is where I'm from but making music has a mind of its own.

"I'm in a dark place. Worked on this project close to despair here in Washington DC.

"The breathy, slightly percussive looped sound was manipulated from the field recording by Dan Rosato of a vendor making ice cream in the streets of Đà Lạt Vietnam.

"The other musical elements were created for this project and are mixed with one of my own looped field recordings of a violinist tuning in a local church.

"Life gets in the way of living sometimes. Yes, there are moments of joy but in the world right now there seems to be so much that is terribly sad and merciless."

Da Lat night market reimagined by Bill McKenna.

IMAGE: The Erica Chang, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons