 pauses for places in between the notes where the silence can build, where the silence, not the music, is being shaped. And I think that's what my great-grandfather was trying to do, compose something that was meant to be unfinished, that was meant to be added to, the story of a family told in fragments and intervals and pauses, the moments in between history where all the living happens, the moments that almost always get forgotten, where all the exceptional tragedies and invisible triumphs actually occur.