Selves was composed for SPLICE Ensemble at the SPLICE Institute 2025. The piece explores how my Deep Listening© practice fits into a queer compositional approach. My practice includes listening to the self internally and externally by engaging with the body's vibrations, its resonances in specific areas, and its adaptability within the environment, which imagines how the self can expand beyond the body’s physical presentation without fear of judgement. Over the course of the piece, I ask the performers to listen to their internal and external selves through techniques on their instrument, both as an ensemble and individual—thinking of the ensemble as an overall identity and each individual as part of the larger whole—while following a structure built around the Five Gates in Deep Listening© practice.