Pop: the Bubble Wrap is an electro-acoustic piece written primarily with sampled audio files representing things that pop including balloons, popcorn popping on the stove, a jack-in-the-box playing Pop Goes the Weasel, the opening of a soda-pop can, and, of course, bubble wrap. Wind chimes were also used, this being the only sample not directly representing something that pops. It began as a piece of “pop” music with no attached story or meaning in an effort to draw my own attention to the sounds of the piece and techniques used. Throughout the development of the piece it came to represent the difficulty and beauty of removing the things that protect (i.e. bubble wrap) – or hinder – from entering into relationships with those around us.
