In electro-acoustic music sounds usually are moved around static listeners. The merry-go-round project was a chance to rethink this model of sound/listener relationships. In my piece, each speaker produces 2x repetitive motifs – deconstructed cliché carousel music loops and percussive sine tones. Each element has slight differences in timing and pitch, creating complex interactions between the sounds without having to move them around per se. Spinning listeners can hear the “same but different” motif that, which seems to spin, while actually staying still.