The man who saved three thousand Armenian folk songs spent the last twenty years of his life in silence. Komitas Vardapet was deported in the April 1915 roundup of Armenian intellectuals. He survived physically. The trauma fractured him. He never composed again. He died in a Paris psychiatric hospital in 1935. The music outlasted the man who saved it.His face surfaces through the K — the first letter of his name, rendered in the texture of crumpled manuscript paper. On either side, his handwritten notations spread across the background and fade. The further they reach from him, the darker they become — dissolving into black at the edges. That fading is the composition. The music reaching outward. The silence swallowing everything it touches. Above it all, in plain type: The Silence After 1915.