Somehow my friend group got obsessed with Crazy Frog/Beverly Hills Cop’s Axel F song over the summer. My friends Alex, respected organ scholar at St Hughes college in Oxford, and Celine first sent their rendition on the organ:

I responded with a short improvisation on a grand piano I found at the IHES in Paris, where I was visiting for a summer school:

During the flight back to Montreal, I wrote down this improvisation into a more contrapuntal synth piece: