Moth Sketches began as a piece that was to score a short animated movie about a moth. Although my musical ideas eventually parted company with the movie and my work became a standalone piece, I did find using the movie as a starting point to be interesting for a number of reasons. For one, the initial sense of the pacing of ideas came from an outside impetus, which is otherwise never the case in my music. I also found myself defining my ideas as characters in ways I would not normally do. The pi...