Here the database query becomes as much of a creative instrument as a reductive one; it gains the ability to compose as it selects. And as with real-world instruments, the timbre comes from a balance of precision and imperfection. This particular query is written to eventually lose attention — to wander from boy to children, from fire to San Francisco, as if in a daydream. Through these meanderings, artworks from disparate collections and time periods are brought togethe…