In the Spring of 2022 my friend Chuck Bontrager gave a lecture on electric violin in our orchestration class. We talked afterwards about collaborating on a piece, and, as I stewed on ideas, I found myself revisiting one of my favorite albums Muse: The 2nd Law. Their use of Musique concrète, strings, voiceovers, and dubstep interwoven with their stadium rock style to tell a more specific narrative about the unsustainability of Western Economics reminded me of how much this album impacted the way I write electronic music. It drew me back to dwelling on the balance of science and art and how it impacts humanity. Over time this brought me to reflecting on my memories of the countless hours spent in the chemisty lab, my fascination with discovery, and the wonder at learning how meticulously previous humans managed to codify the laws of the Universe.

The Arrow of Time takes its name from a principle related to the second law of thermodynamics. "An increase in the combined entropy of system and surroundings accounts for the irreversibility of natural processes because time is asymetric." Simply stated, time only moves forward and, in isolation, natural processes are irreversible.