Recollections of Gifts is a digital fixed media composition that draws some of its source material from live performances of Gifts an original composition for violin piano and dance ensemble.  Recollections of Gifts exists as an acoustic memory of Gifts and it quickly interweaves to another dream-like world of suggestive memories of the violin and piano then reverts to its original source material.  Much of it is digitally modified but some is presented as unprocessed fragments, keeping true to its organic form.   The open musical structure of Gifts was influenced by the music of John Cage, whose open-form and improvisation were guided by arbitrary aides such as I-Ching.  In the case of Gifts, the choices are given by the composer.  Rather than avoiding compositional decisions, a range of choices is given to infuse the performance with a sense of an innate organic spontaneity.   Recollections of Gifts is not bound by order or content but has only one arrangement since it is   digital fixed media and is intended to be available as digital fixed media.   -Burton Beerman