The “trans” prefix takes on a special significance within the contemporary moment, as the immediacy of digital mediations foreground the complexity and diversity of many more human experiences that change. “Trans” signals a temporality, between being and becoming. How does transduction change one form of energy to another? How does transparency describe acts of hiding or showing in the process of a “work?” How does transcription detail expressions through different forms in writing? This talk aims to extend engagements with translation within contexts of language and literature with similar processes within representations of music.