Silva is a dynamic, indeterminate, and open-instrumentation piece focused on exploring the ways in which music and performances adapt and change over time. The work is first recorded once with entirely open-ended instructions; the only goal is to create the performer’s concept of music. This is then the seed from which the rest of the forest of Silva is grown; the subsequent performers access the database of recordings and choose one of their own to use as a guide for their own performance, and this process is recorded over and over until one thousand such iterations are achieved.