Pastoral

Instrumentation: fixed media

Year: 2020

Duration: 6.5 minutes

Program Note:
Pastoral is a reimagining of Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony. Excerpts from his first movement from an old public domain recording are woven together with sounds of nature to create a new narrative structure. Much of the symphony has been time-stretched creating long waves of string sounds that are punctuated by short fragments processed through several reverbs I have designed. The effect is a dreamy meditation of one of my favorite symphonies.