Low-poly landscapes

french horn and live electronics

2024

duration: 4' 

Low-poly landscapes was inspired by early 2000s and 90s video game graphics. I find a lot of nostalgia in these types of graphics and gravitate a lot to these video games when/if I find time to play them. These landscapes found in these games inspired me to write in a “horn-call” style to reference the original purpose of the instrument. By then using effects to degrade the resultant audio to a similar quality to 2000s MP3 players, alongside reverb and delay modulation, the calls the horn makes in this piece passes over these low-poly landscapes and degrades over time, swelling into reverberant, nostalgic chambers.