Tightly Wound is the second movement of a larger composition entitled The Persistence of Time and Memory. This composition utilizes string sounds as well as samples of plucked objects to create a surreal sonic landscape bursting with nervous energy. The strings, both real and synthetic, are rubbed, plucked, bowed, scraped, distorted, and excited via other means. Similarly, strings are used to provide resonance or to filter other sounds in this composition. Perhaps everything in the universe really does consist of strings instead of particles?