Scarham Creek is located on Sand Mountain, a region in north Alabama known for mountain music and snake-handling. At two one-lane bridges on a hairpin curve, next to an abandoned red gristmill, Scarham receives the waters from just-merged Shoal and Whippoorwill Creeks, flows fast over boulders to Short Creek, which runs off the mountain into Lake Guntersville. My mother grew up here, and her family operated the mill for a time. On childhood visits, I thought it the wildest place on earth. The keyboard uses a reed organ patch and is detuned by 32 cents.

2365 Cahaba Road was the address of the original Unitarian Church of Birmingham, which sponsored such progressive activities as civil rights mobilization, arts education, and the adventurous Artburst concert series. By 2003, the congregation had outgrown the building, so the land was sold and the quirky A-frame structure demolished. I wrote the music for piano and microtonal synthesizer following the announcement of that decision, with a mixed sense of loss, inevitability, and celebration. The video is made up of photographs and video clips of the church itself and of events that took place there.