Transcendental Assembly (2016-2018) is an electronic work for fixed media. It is derived from an earlier chamber work, a setting of a Ralph Waldo Emerson text, Wild Rose, Lily, Dry Vanilla for soprano and five instruments. The older work is treated as an abstract sound source from which Transcendental Assembly was made. The source material was reworked and distorted to create the sense of a choral work in which the voices are made of instrumental as well as vocal timbres. The title refers to the Transcendentalist Emerson, as well as the “assembly” of the derived sound material.