Overture 16

(the score is watered down so your computers don't explode. Originally 8 winds, 8 brass, 7 percussion, 2 auxiliary, 8 strings. but that is excessive so now it's tiny heehee)


what's up y'all
i forgot to publish this so you get it late haha nerds

anyhoo <3

I wrote this song for my girlfriend's 16th birthday. I am a horrible gift-giver, so I just wrote her a symphony instead.

This piece didn't really turn out the way I wanted it to. I began writing in early February, during one of the worst depressive episodes I've ever experienced. I went through a pretty shitty medication change (L doctor tbh.) My insomnia got worse, which kinda just kicks you in the ass, and worsened the ADHD and sensory-processing disorder.

I kinda just wanted to stop living but I couldn't do that because if I died then the haters win, so I wrote a grouchy symphony. I planned on scrapping the first minute or so, but I realized that I'd regret it, so I just toughed it out. You can hear at M56 the day I started taking antidepressants again and I find it genuinely hilarious.

I finished around March 8th, forgot about it, and now I'm publishing it. And that's about it!

eat your veggies and enjoy the song

e. kastengren