The following music NFT is my initial response to François-André Vincent's ‘Arria and Paetus,’ recorded on Feb 17, 2023 via voice memo at a private residence on 72nd & Park in New York, NY. The cover art is a sineprint (a graphed room frequency response) of my room where this was created.

My concept for the music centered around a desire to capture the moment where Arria plunges the knife into her breast. I was taken by the words she says at this moment: "See, Paetus, it does not hurt." There's something so emotionally painful about that, knowing that in reality, a knife in the chest hurts. I found it tragic that Arria not only finds a knife in the chest to be less painful than the dishonor of staying alive, but that she must also demonstrate it via action for her husband to follow. The half step slide in the very beginning of the audio sketch attempts to capture this classical drama.