"I originally wrote this piece at the beginning of 2010 on a keyboard, in the key of G sharp minor. Not being a key-player myself I subsequently handed the composition to my musical mentor, Michael Hanf, who performed it on a grand piano for a studio-recording. That recording was later used in a global performance art project."
Marius Fleck
"When Marius and I talked about how to transfer this to the ukulele we both agreed that a different key would very much help to work around the specific limitations inherent to the ukulele. Marius made a few compositionally alterations for the closing bars. I chose to perform it on a 5 string ukulele with both low G and high g strings which are struck and sounded 'as one' to create an octave. The low G gives a little extra range which helped to compensate for the ukulele's lack of bass. The 5 string is tuned 1/2 a step down for no particular reason other than I like how it sounds!"
Samantha Muir