Premiered by the JACK Quartet

Overdrive is a progressive metal song for string quartet. It was inspired by the music of Periphery, a band which uses detuned, extended range guitars to create dense, high-octane music. This piece uses brutal, unpitched string techniques to imitate the sounds of metal. Often, the appeal of listening to metal lies in hearing the constant oscillation between clean sounds, harsh, distorted sounds, and all the shades of grey in between. This timbral conflict is the heart of this piece. With it, I hope to evoke the spectacle of this genre which is so dear to my heart.