A sonic drift through spectral landscapes, I Pity the Garden—Music Excerpts captures fragments of a world emptied of human presence, where only echoes and remnants remain. Originally composed for the immersive VR experience at the Georgian Pavilion, 59th Venice Biennale, this unofficial album is a reimagined version of the soundscape, reshaped from the original samples created for VR glasses.

Built from decayed loops, reworked samples, and field recordings distorted beyond recognition, the music unfolds as a single, evolving piece. Every sound originates from something that once existed but no longer remains as it was. What begins as scattered sonic debris—fading melodies, stretched-out tones, and organic murmurs—gradually fuses into a 20-minute composition that mirrors the journey through the virtual ghost garden.

These excerpts distill the essence of a place where nature and artifice collapse into one: the murmur of a world fading, regenerating, and dissolving again. 

Virtual Reality Experience and Auto-Generated Real-Time Simulation by Mariam Natroshvili and Detu Jincharadze
Curated by — In-between Conditions
Composer, sound designer — Davit Khorbaladze

Cover Artwork: Screenshot from I Pity the Garden (VR experience), created by Mariam Natroshvili & Detu Jincharadze.


THE END—I Pity The Garden

Chiatura House At The Edge—I Pity The Garden

Flowers gone—I Pity The Garden

Steel Carcass—I Pity The Garden

Dog Words Wall Fire—I Pity The Garden

Khrushovka Birds And Trees—I Pity The Garden

Empty streets—I Pity The Garden

River of Bottles—I Pity The Garden

No—I Pity The Garden

Date completed: Fall 2024

Recording: 
April 19, 2025
Department of Music, University of California Santa Barbara

Mivos Quartet
Performer 1: Olivia De Prato, violin 
Performer 2: Adam Woodward, violin
Performer 3: Victor Lowrie Tafoya, viola
Performer 4: Nathan Watts, cello
Video and Multichannel Audio: Andrew A. Watts

A Strobe Fractures Obsidian Night was written for the October 2024 edition of the Novalis Festival in Osijek, Croatia. The video content of the work delves into the ecological theme of light pollution, inspired by the artistic innovation of Aleksandar Srnec's Lumino kinetic art and Croatia's proactive stance on ecological issues. The graphical material was generated through AI via Stable Diffusion, then crafted manually and algorithmically in Adobe Premiere Pro and Max/MSP. A Strobe Fractures Obsidian Night features an open instrumentation ensemble of four performers whose parts relate to four streams of fixed audio playback. Special thanks to Davor Branimir Vincze and Szilárd Benes for all of the help throughout. 

www.andrewawatts.com

A Strobe Fractures Obsidian Night (2024)

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