Musical works

Lacopo’s approach towards his instrument in the way water breathes pulls from musical influences in progressive music, post-rock, and ambient. Through its fusion with the classical guitar, the piece presents a new way to approach the instrument by incorporating extended techniques typically found in these genres. A new scordatura, often used by the band Covet, transposes the instrument to an open sonority that allows previously impossible gestures to become much more accessible. Alongside the Hologram Electronics Microcosm as a randomized, pitch-shifting delay, and the MOOD as a dense ambient reverb haze, the piece replicates the unpredictable temperance of large bodies of water by unifying musical influences.

— Emmanuel Jacob Lacopo