TED: COMING UP NEXT ON ARIZONA HORIZON, THE LATEST ON GAS PRICES IN THE STATE.

WE'LL LOOK AT WHERE PRICES AT THE PUMP ARE NOW AND WHERE THEY'RE HEADED.

AND THE PHOENIX CHORALE RETURNS TO LIVE PERFORMANCES WITH A WORK THAT FEATURES A LOCAL COMPOSER AND THE CITY OF PHOENIX'S POET LAURETE.

THAT'S ALL COMING UP, NEXT ON ARIZONA HORIZON.

TED: WELCOME TO ARIZONA HORIZON.

I'M TED SIMONS.

THE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL LOCKOUT IS OVER.

BASEBALL OWNERS AND PLAYERS TODAY REACHED A TENTATIVE LABOR AGREEMENT.

THAT MEANS SPRING TRAINING IN ARIZONA WILL BEGIN THIS WEEKEND.

BUT SINCE THE AGREEMENT CALLS FOR A FULL "REGULAR" BASEBALL SEASON TO BEGIN ON APRIL 7TH, THE FIRST HALF OF THE "SPRING" SCHEDULE IS WIPED OUT AND CACTUS LEAGUE GAMES WILL ONLY RUN FOR A FEW WEEKS.

IT MAKES FOR A HIT TO LOCAL ECONOMIES THAT LOOK FORWARD TO REVENUES GENERATED BY THE CACTUS LEAGUE, BUT THERE WILL BE BASEBALL WITH PLAYERS EXPECTED TO START REPORTING TO CAMPS IN ARIZONA AND FLORIDA TOMORROW.

ANOTHER REPORT SHOWS THAT INFLATION IS AT ITS HIGHEST LEVEL IN 40 YEARS.

THAT'S ACCORDING TO THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX, WHICH WAS RELEASED TODAY, AND SHOWS AN INCREASE OF 7.9-PERCENT FOR THE 12 MONTHS ENDING IN FEBRUARY, THE HIGHEST RATE SINCE 1982 AND IT MEANS THAT INFLATION HAS NOW REACHED NEW 40 MONTHS.

GAS, FOOD AND HOUSING PRICES DROVE THE FEBRUARY PRICE INCREASES, WITH GAS CONTRIBUTING TO NEARLY A THIRD OF THE PRICE HIKES.

THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SAID THAT TODAY'S REPORT WAS EXPECTED.

REPUBLICANS RESPONDED TO THE REPORT BY BLAMING THE PRESIDENT.

EVEN FLATION IS REALLY KILLINGS.

DOES THE PRESIDENT SAY?

HE CAN'T DO MUCH.

HE CANNOT DO MUCH TOP ADDRESS RISING GAS PRICES.

>> THAT IS UNSEN.

TED: INFLATION IS ALSO A FACTOR IN ANOTHER INCREASE IN MORTGAGE RATES.

THEY'RE NOW AT 3.85-PERCENT FOR A 30-YEAR FIXED LOAN.

THAT'S UP FROM 3.76-PERCENT LAST WEEK.

FREDDIE MAC OUT WITH THOSE NUMBERS TODAY.

INFLATION AND THE WAR IN UKRAINE ARE CONSIDERED THE MAIN REASONS FOR THE RATE INCREASES AND WHAT ANALYSTS THINK WILL BE CONTINUED SHORT-TERM RATE-VOLATILITY.

THE U.S. HOUSE LATE YESTERDAY VOTED TO BAN RUSSIAN OIL IMPORTS INTO THE U.S., ALONG WITH OTHER ECONOMIC SANCTIONS.

OVERWHELMING VOTE OF 414-17.

AMONG THOSE 17 NO VOTES, ARIZONA REPRESENTATIVES ANDY BIGGS AND PAUL GOSAR.

BIGGS SAID THAT THE BAN DOES NOTHING TO, QUOTE, "UNLEASH THE POWER OF AMERICA'S OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY."

GOSAR CALLED THE BILL QUOTE, "POLITICAL COVER FOR JOE BIDEN'S TERRIBLE DECISIONS THAT HAVE LED TO RECORD HIGH GASOLINE PRICES."

TALKS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE WERE HELD TODAY WITH NO PROGRESS REPORTED.

THIS AS RUSSIAN FORCES CONTINUE TO MAKE SLOW, HARD- FOUGHT ADVANCES IN VARIOUS AREAS OF THE COUNTRY, INCLUDING THE NORTHERN TOWN OF CHURNIV, WHERE THE MAYOR SAID THAT THE CITY WAS RUNNING OUT OF BURIAL SPACE FOR THOSE KILLED IN RUSSIAN ATTACKS.

UKRAINE OFFICIALS SAY THAT OVERALL AT LEAST 549 CIVILIANS HAVE BEEN KILLED SINCE THE RUSSIAN INVASION BEGAN FEBRUARY 24TH.

MORE THAN 1300 OF THAT CITY ALONE HAVE BEEN KILLED WITH MANY BURIED IN MASS GRAVES.

UKRANIAN RESISTANCE HAS BEEN FAR STRONGER THAN EXPECTED WHEN THE RUSSIAN ASSAULT BEGAN.

BUT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION AND ITS ALLIES ARE NOW SAYING THAT THERE'S NOW NO CLEAR END TO THE MILITARY PHASE OF THE CONFLICT, AND THAT COULD RESULT IN AN EVEN LONGER AND MORE DEADLY SLOG, WHICH IN TURN COULD CAUSE A SIGNIFICANT HUMANITARIAN CRISIS.

U.S. TRAVELERS WILL LIKELY BE EXTENDED FOR ANOTHER MONTH.

THE CURRENT REQUIREMENT IS SET TO EXPIRE ON MARCH 18TH, BUT FEDERAL OFFICIALS ARE SAYING TO EXPECT AN EXTENSION OF 30 DAYS.

THE TRAVEL MASK-MANDATE IS ONE OF THE LAST REMAINING BROAD REQUIREMENTS FOR AMERICANS TO WEAR MASKS IN PUBLIC PLACES.

IT APPLIES TO ALL MASS TRANSPORTATION, INCLUDING PLANES TRAINS, BUSES AND TRAVEL HUBS LIKE AIRPORTS.

UNIVERSAL MASKING REDUCED THE SPREAD OF COVID IN SCHOOLS BY MORE THAN 72 PERCENT.

THAT'S ACCORDING TO A NEW STUDY PUBLISHED IN THE JOURNAL "PEDIATRICS."

THE RESEARCH COMPARED SCHOOL DISTRICTS WHERE MASKING WAS MANDATORY TO DISTRICTS WHERE MASKS WERE OPTIONAL.

THE STUDY LOOKED AT 62 SCHOOL DISTRICTS ACROSS NINE STATES INCLUDING CALIFORNIA, TEXAS AND GEORGIA, AND WAS CONDUCTED DURING LAST YEAR'S DELTA SURGE.

AND SCIENCE NEWS A NEWLY- DISCOVERED RAINBOW-COLORED FISH HAS BEEN FOUND.

TAKE A LOOK: THE FISH WAS DISCOVERED LIVING IN THE OCEAN'S SO-CALLED "TWILIGHT ZONE," BETWEEN 130 AND 23 FEET DEEP.

THE NEW SPECIES WAS FOUND IN THE CORAL REEFS OF THE MALDIVES.

THE SCIENTIFIC NAME FOR THE FISH HONORS THE PINK ROSE, WHICH IS THE MALDIVIAN NATIONAL FLOWER.

AS WE MENTIONED EARLIER, INFLATION IS AT RECORD LEVELS AND THE MAIN REASON IS GAS PRICES, WHICH HAVE SKY-ROCKETED SINCE THE START OF RUSSIA'S INVASION OF UKRAINE.

EARLIER TODAY WE SPOKE WITH ALDO VAZQUEZ FROM AAA ABOUT GAS PRICES IN ARIZONA, WHERE THOSE PRICES ARE NOW AND WHERE THEY'RE HEADED.

>> YEAH.

THAT IS UP 6 A 3, OVER A WEEK AGO AND ABOUT 8 9 CENTS OVER A MONTH AGO.

S THAT A LOT OF INCREASE THERE.

WELL, AROUND THE STATE, BE WHERE ARE GAS PRICES THE HIGHEST?

WELL, SO YOU WILL BE FINDING GAS PRICE AVERAGES HIGHER IN THE METRO AREA, SO DEFINITELY WILLINGLY OUT HERE IN MARICOPA COUNTY AND THE COUNTY WITH THE HIGHEST GAS PRICES NOW.

SO HOW COME IS?

IT A PIPELINE ISSUES THEN JUST GETTING THE STUFF UP THERE?

WELL, IT DEPENDS ON LOCALITY OBVIOUSLY TRANSPORTATION COSTS GO INTO IT.

IT ALSO DIFFERENT COUNTIES HAVE DIFFERENT KIND OF ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS THEN OBVIOUSLY, SOME AD TODAY GIVES GOING GASOLINE WILL RAISE UP THE PRICE AS WELL.

SO THE HIGHEST.

ARE GAS PRICES THE LOWEST AROUND ARIZONA ?

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>> SO YOU WILL FINAL GAS PRICES LOWER ON THE SOUTHEASTERN PART OF THE STATE AND SOUTH OR THE NORTHEASTERN PART OF THE STATE AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT APACHE COUNTY.

THROATS ONES YOU WILL FIND GAS PRICES ARE A LITTLE BIT MORE CHEAPER.

OK.

SO WE GOT THE NUMBERS NOW WE KNOW THE HI AND LOW.

WHERE ARE THESE GAS PRICES HEADED?

>> WELL, UNFORTUNATELY, THE LONGER THIS CONFLICT BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE CONTINUES TO GO ON GAS PRICES WILTON RISE BECAUSE THE PRICE OF CRUDE OIL IS STAGGERING HIGH AND IT CONTINUES TO GO UP AND THE BEFORE THE CONFLICT BEGAN CRUDE OIL WAS CLOSING AT $90 PER BARREL THE OIL BEA GN AND UP WENT UP TO 100 NOW SEEING INCREASE SUBSTANTIALLY AND TODAY IT IS ABOUT 108 PER BARREL.

SHOULDN'T THAT BE HELPING PARTIES?

WELL IT GENES.

THERE WAS ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE IAE THEY ARE GOING TO RELEASE 60 MILLION BARRELS OF CRUDE OIL TO HELP COMBAT THE SITUATION AND HOWEVER GIVEN THE AMOUNT THAT COMES OUT OF RUSSIA DAL RY THAT WOULD BE AND AMOUNT AND WOULDN'T HELP WITH PRICE AND ANSWER F ANYTHING WE'LL TON SEES THE PRICES GO UP.

WE SAW SUP PLAIN DEMAND ISSUES BEFORE THE RUSSIAN INVASION AND THOSE STILL AT RAY?

>> RIGHT.

YEAH.

YEAH.

WE HAVEN'T SOON DEMAND HAS BEEN GOING UP STEADILY, AND THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY PRICES ARE GOING UP AS WELL AND JUST DEALING WITH THE TIGHTENED SUP PLAY AT THE MOMENT, SO WE HAVE THAT, THAT DISPARITY BETWEEN SUPPLY AND DEMAND THAT WILL MOSHE MORE PRESSURE IN THE CRUDE OIL MARKET THEN KEEP GOING UP GIVE IN THE FACT WE GO THO THE SUMMER TRAVEL SEASON THEN DATA SHOWS US REGARDS OF HOW HIGH PRICES GO.

PEOPLE ARE STILL GOING TO TRAVEL AND TAKE ARE ACATION.

YEAH.

THE SUMMER SEASON MAKES A DIFFERENCE, DOESN'T IT?

IT DOES THE.

WE PUT OUT SR.

I HAVE ASKING FOLKS ABOUT YOU KNOW, THE HIGH GAS PRICE THEN WE DID SEE THERE IS A TELEPHONING POINT FOR FOLKS AND ABOUT 59% OF THEM SAID THEY WOULD CHANGE THEIR DRIVING HABIT FRIESES AVERAGED AROUND ARE 4 BUT CHANGE THE LIFE L.A.

I STYLESSANCE DRIVING HABITS IF PRICES WENT UP TO $5 TO SO STARTING TO SEE THAT FEK ON PEOPLE MAKING DECISION NOW.

BUT PHYSICAL PREVIOUS YEARS ANY INDATION WE DON'T ANTICIPATE THAT TO THE SEE EFFECT OF SUMMER TRAVEL PLANS.

AS FAR AS WHAT PEOPLE HEAR OIL PRICE AND PRICE PER BARREL, CRUDE OIL PRICES THESE SORTS OF THINGS HOW MUCH?

HOW DO YOU TRANSLATE NUMBER WITH WHAT YOU ARE SEEING AT THE PUMP?

>> IT IS PRETTY SYNONYMOUS AND LOOK AT CRUDE OWL IN THE WAIT IS GOING UP.

I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY.

CRUD OIL MAKES UP 60% OF THE PRICE OF GASOLINE, SO YOU SEE THOSE INCREASE AS SOON AS THE PRICE OF CRUDE OIL GOES UP AND A GOOD WAY AND LOOK AT CALIFORNIA AND WHAT HAP PINS CALIFORNIA WILL LIKELY MIRROR JIM HAPPENS IN ARIZONA NOT BY A LARGE AMOUNT LIKE THEY DO UP OVER THERE BUT CERTAINLY PRICES WERE UP THERE AND EXPECT THEM TO GO UP HERE AS WELL.

CERTAINLY PROPORTIONATE I.

CORRECT.

YEAH.

YEAH.

AS FAR TAZ THE TIME YOU ARE SAYING, LOOK WE HEAR ABOUT A SPIKE IN CRUDE OIL PRICES TODAY.

DOES THAT MEAN INCREASE IN PUMP!

S HOME?

>> THAT IS RIGHT.

AS LISTENING THE PRICE CONTINUES TO GO UP.

WE CAN EXPECT TO SEE THESE HIGHER GAS PRICES.

>> OK IMPACT OF MIDDLE MEN REFINERIES.

THESE SORT OF THINGS.

HOW ARE THEY AT PLAY?

>> SO, WE DON'T REALLY HAVE A LOT OF DATA ON REFINES ARE YOU HAVE TO RETCH OUT TO THOSE THEMSELVES TO UNDERSTANDED THEIR FUNCTIONALITY WHAN THEY ARE DOING CRUCIALLY AT THE MOMENT BUT WE HAVE NO PERSONAL CONNECTION.

YOU DON'T HAVE ANY NUMBERS ON PROFIT MARGINS AND THESE SORT OF THING.

A LOT OF REPORTS THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY THESE GAS PRICES ARE GOING.

YEAH.

YEAH.

WE DON'T HAVE DIRECT CONTACT WITH IT AND DON'T SEE THEY HANDLE BUSINESS.

>> OK. ARE INTERESTED.

YOUR ADVICE TO FOLKS WHO ARE LOOKING TO SAVE BUCKS HERE AS THEY PLAN ON CONTINUE DRIVE THROUGHOUT THIS?

WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO CONSERVE GAS OTHER THAN STAYING HOME YEAH.

RIGHT.

OUTSIDE OF LOOKING DOING RESEARCH AND FINDING THOSE GAS STATIONS AND IF YOU ARE DRIVING AND MAYBE EVEN PLOTTING OUT ON YOUR ROUTE WHERE THE CHEAPEST GAS STATIONS ARE, THEN MAKING SURE YOUR VEHICLE IS IN WELL WORKOREDDER, IT IS PROPERLY MAINTAINED.

THE TIRES ARE PROBABLY INFLATED THEN DRIVING SPEED LIMIT THEN AVOIDING ACCELERATING OR HEARTBREAKING THEN WILL HP YOU SAB ON GAS WHEN YOU SPEED, WHEN YOU BRAKE HARD USE UP MORE GASOLINE THE SAME GUESS FOR THE VEHICLE WHEN IT IS NOT FUNCTIONING TO THE FULL KAPPAS TAIN WORK HARDER THEN THAT IS GOING TO IN TURN USE UP MORE GASOLINE.

TRY TO AVOID IDLING AS.

AS POSSIBLE AS WELL.

TRY AVOID EYED LIG THEN REMOVE THE UNNECESSARY GRUNGE THE VEHICLE.

AVOIDING RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE AND CONSOLIDATING THE TRIPS A LONG WAY AND HELP YOU SAVE GAS IN THE NEW ECONOMY.

ADD TOLL THE CAR THAT MAKE DAVE IS RENS DOESN'T IT.

IT DOES.

EXTRA 100 POUNDS OF WASTE CAN REDUCE THE FUEL ECONOMY BY 1%.

YEAH.

YEAH.

ALL RIGHT.

ALL RIGHT AAA ARIZONA BOY A LOT TO GO OVER HER SAN SURE THERE MOISER TO COME HERE.

BUT THANKS FOR THE INFORMATION AND GOOD YOU HAVE HERE.

THANK YOU.

>> THANK YOU.

UP NEXT HEAR ABOUT NEW MUSIC BY THE PHOENIX CORAL THAT IS WHERE IT BOON TOY LOCAL ARTISTS ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ TED: OUT OF THE ASHES," IS A MUSIC PIECE COMPOSED AND PERFORMED BY KIRA ZEEMAN RUGEN OF THE PHOENIX CHORALE, WITH WORDS FOR THE MUSIC WRITTEN BY THE CITY OF PHOENIX'S POET LAUREATTE, ROSEMARIE DOMBROWSKI.

WE SPOKE TO BOTH LOCAL ARTISTS ABOUT THEIR COLLABORATION, WHICH WILL BE PERFORMED BY THE PHOENIX CHORALE MARCH 18TH THROUGH THE 20TH AT SEVERAL LOCATIONS.

>> THANK YOU BOTH.

GOOD YOU HAVE HERE.

WE'LL START WITH YOU.

THE NEW WORK OUT OF THE ASHES.

DESCRIBE THIS FOR US.

>> THIS IS A COULD LAB BETWEEN BETWEEN ROSEMARY AND MYSELF IT STARTED BECAUSE THE NEW DIRECTOR THINK OF PHOENIX CHORALE HAD A VISION OF REBIRTH IN FEE INCOMES.

HERE WE ARE WITH THE STORY.

THREE YEARS LATER AFTER HE ASKED ME AND NOW, KIND OF HAS OTHER RELEVANCE WITH WHAT IS HAPPENING THE WORLD BUT IN THE BEGINNING IT BASS THE BIRD AND THE IDEA THAT REBIRTH CAN HAPPEN ANYWHERE.

>> WAS IT PANDEMIC ORIENTED.

>> NOT AT.

YOU NOT AT ALL.

>> I LER LAY PHOENIX THING.

>> IT REALLY WAS.

YEAH.

YEAH.

NOW IT BECAME PROPHETIC A WAY.

>> YEAH.

HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED IN THE.

WELL, THE CHORALE PARTNERED WITH THE VIRGINIA NEARS AND THEY PUT OUT A CALL FOR A POE.

I APPLIED LIKE DY FOR THE POET LAWYER RATE.

I WAS STILL OF FEE INCOMES OH ALSO AAT THE TIME WHEN APPLIED SO I WAS GRATEFUL TO GET THE GIG AND SOMETHING THAT I WANTED TO DO DESPERATELY ABLE LOVED THE CITY.

HAVE BEEN SERVING THE TY FOR NEARLY FOUR YEARS AND I THOUGHT, WOW, TO WRITE THE FIRST SONG ABOUT PHOENIX BOTH THE MIST LOGICAL CREATURE AND THE STIT IS NAMED AFTER WOULD BE FANTASTIC.

YEAH.

YEAH.

HONOR.

YEAH.

WHAT CAME FIRST MUSIC OR TEXTS.

>> THE TEXTS REALLY DID COME FIRST FOR ME I DID RESEARCH BEFORE I BEGAN COLLABORATING WITH OUR WONDERFUL POET AND BUT, I HAD WHAT, IN MY I IMAGINATION WAS A LOT OF VISUALS SO FOR ME AS COME POUTER, I AM HUELLY INSPIRED BY NATURE, AND HEALING WHICH THIS PARTICULAR PIECE COVERS THOSE TONGUES VERY STRONGLY.

6:00 AND SO I HAD THE IDEA OF WHAT DOES THE SUNSET LOOK LIKE.

WHAT IS A BIRD WAS , FLYING ACROSS THE SKY, WE HAD THE SUNSET OR WE HAD MACHINE SOON OR ANY OF THOSE THINGS SO IT WAS VISUAL FRAN THAT VISUALIZATION COMES WHEN YOU VISUALIZE THIS YOU HEAR CERTAIN NOTES CHORDS COMPOSED.

WELL, A LITTLE BIT.

LITTLE BIT.

I MEAN TROUSER HAVE TO SIT DOWN AND HASH THINGS OUT BUT I DEFINITELY HAD AS THIS SENSE OF A SCOPE OF WHERE I WANTED THE FEES BEGIN AND THEN IT IS GOING TO GET AROMONAS EAR INTENSE AND GOING TO GET MORE ERNEST AND YEARNING THEN, POSING QUESTIONS AND THEN, THEN WE END UP IN A BIG MONSOON WITH LOTS OF STORM ASPECTS THEN RHYTHM AND WE HAVE A BIG SPACE DRUM AND WHEN THE BURDEN DIES THEN AT THE END, WE COME BACK TO REST AND SO I THINK THAT SOMEBODY COMING IN TO LISTEN TO THIS PIECE IS GOING TO START WITH, OK, THAT IS IT.

ORANGE SUNSET SOUNDS LIKE.

>> RIGHT.

RIGHT.

THEN COME AWAY, THAT IS WHAT A MONSOON FEELS LIKE, MUSICALLY, THEN, THEY ARE GOING TO COME AWAY WITH THAT IS WHAT HEALING FEELS LIKE AT THE END BECAUSE I PUT AWAY ALL OF THE CHALLENGING CHORDS IN THIS THE ONES THAT BRING UP THE QUESTIONS AND THEN WE GO TOWARD PEACE.

WE GO TOWARD LOVE AND JOY AND HOPE AND THOSE TYPE OF THING WHEN THE MUSIC.

WITH THE TEXT NOW, OBVIOUSLY, THAT WAS THERE, BUT HOW MUCH DOES THAT CHANGE?

HOW MUCH DOES IT EVOLVE WHEN YOU START TO HEAR SOME OF THE MUSIC?

WELL, TALK THE COLLABORATIVE PROCESS HERE.

YOU WERE IN SEPARATE SILOS I WOULD GAIN INWELL, NO.

WE WERE NOT.

WE WERE COLLABORATING IN REAL SPACES AT THE TIME BECAUSE OF THE PRE-PANDEMIC.

AND KYRA OUTLINED FOR ME, THE SAME NARRATIVE SHE OUTLINED FOR YOU.

THEN, THEN, IT WAS UP TO ME TO SORT OF CRAFT A FIRST DRAFT OF THE TEXT.

AND THERE WERE MANY DRAFTS THAT I SENT HER BEFORE WE ACTUALLY SAT DOWN AND STARTED TO DIG IN TO THE ONE WE THOUGHT WAS BEST AND SO I WAS ADAMANT ABOUT INCLUDING ALL OF THE FLORA AND NONE AS WELL AS THE ASPHALT AND CONCRETE THAT IS CHARACTERISTIC PHOENIX SO I THINK I HAD SOME IDEAS THAT MAYBE WERE A LITTLE BIT MORE CONTEMPORARY AND I INFUSED THE POEM WITH THOSE THEN WE HAD TO GO BACK AND FORTH MANY, MANY A THE SOUND QUALITY PURPOSES YOU KNOW, BECAUSE MY EAR HEARS SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN SOMEONE WHO IS COMPOSING MUSIC FAR PEOPLE SO EVENING TO I I AM TUNED TO NUMBER OF SYLLABLE OR MERT OR RHYTHMS YOU KNOW, I HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS BEING COMPOSED ON THE OTHER SIDE, SO IT HAD TO, THE POEM HAD TO CONTINUE TO EVOLVE AND IT HADED TO CONTINUE TO EVOLVE COLLABORATIVELY AS COMPOSING THE MUSIC WHICHS I WAS NOT HEARING TO IT SASS INTERESTING PROCESS.

YEAH.

IT IS NOT JUST LIKE, IS THE WORD RHYMING, YOU KNOW?

CAN I GET AT NICE LITTLE LYRIC ALONG THE AND COMPOSING SOMETHING AS EPIC AS IT IS.

IT IS EPIC TALE.

YOU ARE NARRATING A DIALOGUE.

YOU ARE NAR RATING A STORY BOTH FONCALLY AS WELL AS THE WORD IS SO TAKE THOSE WORDS THEN I PUT THEM IN, WELL, SOMETIMES WE USE THIS WORD A MACHINE THEN THE MACHINE SORT OF OPERATES THE WORDS AND WE HEAR THEM RITH MICALLY AND MAY REPRESENT RAIN OR WIND.

IT CAN REPRESENT LOTS OF THINGS WITHIN THE STRUCTURE OF THE COMPOSITION.

>> SO THE FINISHED PROJECT WAS IT AS YOU ENVISIONED WHEN YOU STARTED?

A LITTLE BIT, YES.

YES.

BASS I HAVE BEEN FASCINATED FOR YEARS WITH A PIECE CALLED HELIOS BUY AND THE FIREBIRD SUITE.

>> OK. AND SO I LISTENED TO THOSE AND THEN, WILLIAM, ALL OF HIS MIKES.

ALL THE MUSIC WHICH I KNOW IS STRANGE BECAUSE I AM A MUSICIAN BUT STARTED AT A VIOLIST SO A LOT OF MUSIC INSPIRED ME GREATLY BUT STARTED BIEN WILLING THOSE THREE PIECES THEN GOING THEY WERE SO GOOD AT NARRATING A STORY WITHOUT WORDS.

SO HOW DOW TAKE A PIECE OF MUSIC, AND BE ABLE TO BE EXPRESS IT MUSICALLY WITHOUT WORDS LIKE IN MY HEAD, RIGHT?

LIKE DOES THIS SOUND LAKE SUN NET DOES THIS SOUND LIKE SHOWERS?

DOES THIS SOUND LIKE DUST?

THEN, ALSO IMPLANT THE TEXT IN THERE SO YOU GET BOTH SIDES OF THAT STORY.

THE PHONICS STORY AS WELL AS THE POET K STORY.

>> WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME SO WE HAVE TO WRAP IT UP.

I GOT ASK YOU AS WELL.

WHEN YOU STARTED THE PROJECT THE FINISHED PRODUCT THAT IS WHAT YOU FOREYOU?

>> WELL, I IRONICALLY, I HAVE NOT HEAR THE FINISHED PRODUCT.

>> YOU HEARD IT.

>> SO, I AM, I AM READY TO BE WOWED AT THE EVENT AND A WEEK FROM SATURDAY.

WILL BE HEARING IT FOR THE FIRST TIME LIVE WITH EVERYONE ELSE.

YOU CANNOT WAIT.

I MEAN, INSPIRATION WAS PROFOUNDLY BROAD FROM MYTHOLOGY ALL THE WAY TO CONTEMPORARY PHOENIX LANDSCAPE AND MY PERSONAL OF THE PHOENIX AND SO I CANNOT WAIT TO HEAR HOW THE NARRATIVE THAT WE CREATED TOGETHER WITH WORDS MANY VEST ITSELF IN SOUND AND THIS INTERESTING SOMEONE MAY BE BETTER SITTING WITH HER AND ENJOYING THE SHOW.

TELL ME.

YOU DON'T HAVE BEEN A GATE.

SOME THERE ARE ANY SPEAKER.

NOW.

HOPE THE LIKES THIS AND LOVE IT I AM SURE EVERYONE WILL LOVE IT.

THANKINGS YOU BOTH.

CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS AND SOUNDS LIKE QUITE THE PROJECT THEN SOUNDS LIKE THE RESULTS ARE FASCINATING THANK YOU BOTH FOR JOINING US AND BEST OF US LUCK.

THANK YOU.

THANK YOU FOR HAVING US.

>> I AM JUDY WOODRUFF.

TODAY ON THE NEWS HOUR, HOW RUSSIAS TRYING TO SPREAD FALSE INFORMATION COMING UP AFTER YOUR HOUR OF LOCAL NEWS ON ARIZONA PBS.

ANDING THAT IS IT FOR NOW I AM TED SIMONS THANKS SO MUCH TO JOINING US.

YOU HAVE A GREAT EVENING.