Drawing from music pedagogy, musical languages, and pop musical references — including the Orff Schulwerk, Béla Bartok's Mikrokosmos
piano learning exercises, and Louis Armstrong's classic song, «What a Wonderful World,» among others — the work connects visual signs, musical symbols, and real world referents.
The work, Studio Mix, 2010, is inspired by a set of finger
exercises that the composer Béla Bartók wrote for children
learning the
piano.