Falling Into Light

Sometimes the best way forward is simply to let yourself fall.

There is a sense of movement and release in Falling Into Light, where flowing piano figures gather momentum and carry the music onwards.

Bright, energetic and full of forward motion, the piece captures the feeling of leaving something behind and moving towards something lighter. There is a sense of freedom in its rhythm, as though once the movement begins, there is no need to resist it.

Behind the piece:

Released • August 22 2025

Not every piece begins with a particular story or moment. Sometimes I simply find a sound I love and want to follow it.

Falling Into Light is one of those pieces. I don’t remember a specific event or feeling that inspired it. I remember enjoying the way the music moved, and the feeling of playing those flowing figures as the piece gathered momentum.

Looking back at it now, I can hear something else that I wasn’t consciously aware of when I wrote it: the influence of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. The continuous triplet movement that I have always loved in that piece appears in many of my own compositions, although I often translate that feeling into 12/8 or 6/8 rather than writing literal triplets.