The following music NFT is my initial response to Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's 'Banks of a River Dominated in the Distance by Hills', recorded on Nov 16, 2022 via voice memo at the Graduate Providence in Providence, RI.

This melody came out of a place of depression. I couldn't help but be effected by the grayness of the day, the reality of my life on tour (and its various hardships), and the general malaise I felt in my bones. The mood feels sullen and dark, perhaps too much for the narrative content of the painting. However, I hear this melody as a solo introduction played on clarinet, and as my imagination listens, the quality changes from one of darkness to one of contemplation.

The cover art is a sineprint (a graphed room frequency response) of my room in the Graduate Providence hotel.