Cue of the Week: “The Mirror”

The Cue of the Week is back! (Having taken a few weeks off for the composer’s trip to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.)

The hollow tone that starts this moody piano cue isn’t a synthesizer as you might expect, but the sound of two plastic tubes swung overhead in a circle. The resulting sound has a distinctly organic quality, though it takes a special effort to mic correctly. Should I have just held down two notes on a synthesizer instead? Take a listen and decide!