The following music NFT is my initial response to Corrado Giaquinto's ‘The Rape of Europa’, recorded on Dec 7, 2022 via voice memo at the Hampton Inn & Suites in Minneapolis, MN. The cover art is a sineprint (a graphed room frequency response) of my room in the hotel.

It was so clear to me that there was turmoil and paradox in this painting, and that it must be captured sonically. I wanted to create that juxtaposition by having the strings play a restless motif to embody the bull, or Zeus. The english horn (whose part has not yet been composed) will represent Europa, singing along atop that restless bed.