This piece was written in its original form for an overnight composition challenge as part of GroundSwell’s 2017 Pressure Waves workshop in Winnipeg. In a semi-minimalist fashion it explores the open strings of the cello to the end of creating a very lush sonic texture. At the time of finishing this piece in 2017 it did not have a name. However, after borrowing musical fragments of this work for use in my 2020 piece Dream Streams, I was inspired to name this original solo cello piece Source Material.