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# Before I Die
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/a-soundtrack-for-before-i-die/
- Published: 2022-05-08T19:17:15.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-15T03:48:59.000Z
- Description: A soundtrack to accompany the exhibition of Candy Chang’s Before I Die project.
- Author: James A. Reeves
- Tags: Notebook

I put together a soundtrack to accompany the exhibition of Candy Chang’s [*Before I Die*](https://candychang.com/work/before-i-die-in-nola/?ref=jamesreeves.co) project at [Wonderspaces](https://www.wonderspaces.com/artists/candy-chang-2?ref=jamesreeves.co).

Built from a bass tone, some vapor, and a cassette tape of Candy reading the responses from visitors, it’s a spare, whispery thing designed to flicker around a gallery. But I think it also performs nicely in headphones while working, reading, or contemplating one’s final moments. As I recorded this, I kept thinking about the phrase “a glitch in the ego death.”

[A Soundtrack for Before I Die by James A. Reeves](https://jamesreeves.bandcamp.com/track/a-soundtrack-for-before-i-die?ref=jamesreeves.co)