I wanted to write about a song but I didn’t want to do an artist I was too familiar with so I looked for one I hadn’t spent much time listening to, and I’m not sure if it worked out. This is quite a minimal song and it leaves a lot of room for imagery, but instead of working with that I just described what was happening. As such, I think this bit of writing is lacking.

Ksenia Fedorova’s “Wave VII” is from Waves.

I hope you enjoy.

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Keys rapidly rise and fall and pause, then rise and fall and pause again, and it loops. It’s not long before an additional key is pressed, almost emphasising the pauses. That extra key seems to get louder in places and almost counters the main melody.

There seems to be an idea of flow that comes through, or at least shifting, and it’s a slow shift heard over a compressed time and it continues on. There’s perhaps a stress and tension to it all, or maybe it’s a heaving of energy as it compresses and decompresses.

Eventually that extra key disappears and the focus remains on the rapid rise and fall, and it works with space until it stops and the song ends.