The violin plays a gentle melody in a steady rhythm, tuning each note only to its predecessor in a special form of memoryless just intonation. In this way, the melody becomes unrooted from any fixed pitch, gradually sinking downward over the course of its duration as it forgets itself.

The entire piece is played on the lowest string of the violin, with the upper strings muted. This string can optionally be tuned down by as much as a fourth.

Together with Time Escape Harmony, it forms the diptych How to Become an Idea, which attempts to recover the feeling of pre-existence.