The following music NFT is my initial response to Henri Matisse's ‘Seated Pink Nude’, recorded on November 24, 2022 via voice memo at the Omni William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, PA.

This audio sketch and response to 'Seated Pink Nude' comes from the feeling of warmth I get as I look at the painting. Its hard not to imprint on the work memories of my mother and the attendant care, consideration, and safety she provided to my siblings and I when we were growing up. My aim was for the music to be simple, sweet, and unadulterated. While the theory of what I’m doing never quite occurs to me in the moment of creation, a circle of fifths progression felt like the best choice to accomplish the aim of purity.

The cover art is a screenshot (edited for transparency) from GLM, a software for Genelec’s SAM monitors. My 8330 SAMs calibrate by playing a sine wave of the audible frequency spectrum and then measuring reflections off of nearby surfaces. This in turn generates a graph of the room’s frequency response. I like to think of these graphs as the 'sineprints' from each hotel room around America wherein my creative process began.