A collection of melodies inspired by an early winter expedition in Glacier National Park (Kalispell, MT) in November of 2020.

I spent four days weathering hail and snow in the high alpine, and when I returned, I picked up my cello and for seven days composed the leitmotifs that are contained in this track. I spent the following year orchestrating and producing those leitmotifs into a fully fledged symphonic poem… the full work serving as a commissioned score for a Kehinde Wiley art film. We installed that art film at The National Gallery in London, November 2021.

Despite the grandiosity of the full orchestration, these simple melodies will always remain the impetus of discovery, the initial source of truth, and the compass pointing towards something so much larger than myself.

N48°36’00” , W113°47'30"