Anne Deane is hoping to heal through storytelling, which is the purpose of her project, “Ashes to Ashes/Dance Driving.”

Deane, assistant professor of music, showed the musical preview of the project on Wednesday at Music Hall. Deane wrote “Ashes to Ashes/Dance Driving” as a meditation on the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

“I wanted to give people the music preview because of the date,” she said.

The music is part of a larger work Deane created with Carolina Cruz-Neira, associate professor for the Virtual Reality Applications Center, and Valerie Williams, director of the Co’Motion Dance Theater. The completed work will combine sounds, dance and computer animation.

The music contained sound-bites from people whom Deane interviewed while in New York in February.

Pedestrians, firefighters and office workers gave their recollections of what they saw that day with a haunting soundtrack providing background.

She said the instrumentals were synthetic except for the three female voices that sang on some of the tracks who are in her music theory class.

David Kabala, senior in computer engineering, said he was the software engineer for the project and wrote most of its coding.

“I gained a lot of technical knowledge,” he said.

Deane and her colleagues decided to work together on a project before Sept. 11. Deane said the attacks became the focus.

“We’ve been working for the past year on it,” Deane said.

The completed version will be performed on Nov. 8 at the Iowa Composers Conference. It will be held at the Virtual Reality Application Center in Howe Hall.

“Ashes to Ashes/Dance Driving” will also be shown at the Supercomputing Conference in Baltimore on Nov. 16th.