Arbor : for LA TOUCHE

The following music NFT is my initial response to Gaston La Touche's ‘The Arbor,’ recorded on April 13, via voice memo at a private residence in Boston, MA. The cover art is a sineprint (a graphed room frequency response) of my room there. In this audio sketch you can hear the influence of the baroque, particularly elements of Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations. This feels like an apt musical translation of what La Touche has painted here in The Arbor. He has broken with the impressionists and his background in realism in order to harken back to the rococo aesthetic of the 18th century and its decorative style. In any case, I want the music to remain light and airy, indicative of what one might find if they were actually participating in 17th century fêtes-galantes.