In an interview with the Greensboro News & Record, she said, "I remember being in church and looking at a hymnal and being able to sing the melody and making up words to go along.
[7] Timbre began writing and composing songs in college, "blurring the lines between classical and songwriting".
[12] In June 2013, the production of her double disc album Sun & Moon was fully funded through a crowd-funding campaign on Indiegogo.
[...] There is no doubt that Cierpke has the ability to write a mainstream chamber folk album that would rival the brilliance of Joanna Newsom, but instead of choosing to please a wide audience, she creates the music she wants make".
[15] The song "Day Boy: Photogen Sees the Moon" on the Moon side, and its counterpart on Sun, "Night Girl: Nycteris Sees the Sun" are both based on an 1882 fairy tale by George MacDonald, "The Love Story of Photogen and Nycteris".
Regarding aspects of composition in the double-disc album itself, Timbre has said: "I wanted these songs to reflect each other, as the sunset and sunrise do in nature, so I connected them with a melody palindrome.
"[8] In 2020, Timbre's vocals appeared in the popular video-game Spiritfarer on the track What Will You Leave Behind composed by Max LL.
[16] In 2014, Timbre's work was licensed for use in David Kassan's instructive art documentary, Painting a Life.