During the Etudes performance earlier this spring, I drew in the dark, transcendent heart of Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall—my lines and marks responding to the shifting tempo and temperature of each piece—while experiencing the music in rapt communion with the audience around me. Since then I have used those drawings to make the first 10 of a planned 20-piece series of intimately scaled 14 x 11-inch paintings, which follow each of Glass's Etudes. The jewel-like paintings will be accompanied by one of my signature, large-scale 84 x 62-inch paintings in New York; spanning an entire wall, Mountain of Sound (2024) marks a brilliantly hued, all-encompassing crescendo of my painterly conversation with Glass. —Lily Stockman