For solo guitar.

The title to till the ground came after the music. The modal musical vocabulary, lulling rhythms, snappy embellishments, and hushed chromatic musings look backward to ancient practices. In a world saturated with information, most of life’s most precious lessons still come from the experience gained by the sweat of one’s brow and in connecting to the earth and its Creator.

Finished May 25, 2024.

Premiere August 16, 2024 at the São Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival by the exceptional guitarist Daniel Murray, for whom the piece was written (as a surprise).