This piece is one of a larger collection of work called the Mental Suites. At the time of composing, my primary work outside of academia was as a Health Assistant with a schooling program for precocious adolescents. Sadly, it is not uncommon for high intelligence in minors to be accompanied by various mental and behavioral conditions. Part of my work with this program was to aid in the management in these conditions. This work combined, with my own personal experiences with psychological abnormalities, compelled me to create my own representations of various mental conditions.

Insensate is one half of a larger mental condition. Characterized by two opposing behaviors, bipolar disorder is often viewed by the layman as a person who will be very happy one moment and swiftly enter a sad or angry state. A more clinically accepted view of this would be defined as swaying between episodes of mania, which possess its own complexities addressed in another composition, and an episode of depressiveness. To what I can testify to in my experiences within and without is that the associated depression is less akin to a deep sadness or anger and more in tune with a sense of numbness. I wanted the compositional process to reflect this as much as the auditory experience. To do this, the entire piece is dictated through the prime number series. The rhythms, the bars, and intervals are all calculated coldly and without emotion.