feeding fire captures the process of cremating a body in six minutes. Each minute of the piece represents a stage of the cremation process. The stages are as follows:

1. The body in its starting state – technically, before the cremation process begins.

2. Heat igniting the container where the body will be cremated – here the body is completely dried out from the heat.

3. Soft tissues tighten, burn, and vaporize from the heat – skin becomes wavy and discolored, and tears from the body.

4. Muscles begin to char, while limbs flex and extend as they burn.

5. Bones calcify as they are exposed to the heat, until they crumble apart.

6. The crumbled bones go into a special grinder called a cremulator, which pulverizes the bones until they become “ashes.”

The body before cremation is represented by outsourced bird sounds. As the piece progresses, representations of cremation and decay are introduced. These representations include recordings of maggots on a decomposing bird, as well as processing on the initial bird sounds. As each minute of the piece passes, more processing (granularization, pitch shifting, bit crushing, heavier EQ, and stretching the original audio) is gradually added, until what is left at the end is audio that is completely unrecognizable from the original bird sounds. Like a body transforming into ashes through cremation, what was once the sound of birds chirping and singing becomes an entirely new sound through processing and transformation by the last minute of the piece.