I went on a road trip to Acadia with four other friends. Along the way, I asked each one of them to make a track for a song using Beatwave, an iPad music app where you tap on a grid to play and loop melodies and beats. Those tracks are highlighted in the “album cover” of this song.

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The resulting sounds were oddly reminiscent of the trip: the hiking through woods and the rain and thunderstorm on the car ride back. So the final arrangement tells the story of the trip to Acadia and back. None of my friends really considered themselves musicians, but this became a cool way to improvise a song off of their “user participation.”