Grass, for three female voices and tape, is concerned with the process of recovery, in particular with the healing of the wounds of war. It was commissioned through a gift from Lincoln and Gloria Ladd for the Skidmore College Chorus. The piece is based on the poem "Grass" by Carl Sandburg.

The tape part is entirely synthetic and uses string synthesis developed by the composer, along with Julius Smith, Kevin Karplus and Alex Strong. It also uses waveguide time-varying reverberation networks created by Julius Smith. The piece was implemented on the Systems Concept Digital Synthesizer at CCRMA, Stanford University in 1987.