Creating Shimmering Pianos for Recovering Ruffin
Recovering Ruffin follows an autistic child’s journey into adulthood.
Despite a very tough diagnosis, Ruffin became independent, working as a robotics engineer, giving tech talks at conferences.
Ruffin’s mom did a lot of videotaping over the years, so his story was well documented.
I wrote the score to what we see - the parental admiration of the newborn, deep anxiety when confronting challenges, and the gratitude and wisdom that comes seeing the child blossom in adulthood..
And to celebrate that flowering, I wanted to create a shimmering piano effect. This is how: