This comes from 2 combined livestreams, each of which was abbreviated due in part to user error on my part for failing to record parts, and because I sang in some of the songs and have decided to exclude those pieces. The pieces are from Youtube live streams on April 12, 2024 and April 23, 2024. In the first half I was still in the midst of total thrall from my experience with totality, which I’d driven roundtrip to Bloomington Indiana to see, camping in a cow field, in the second my mind was on Earth day and all the climactic consequences surrounding the very big idea of the Earth.

Things develop gradually and rhythmically, as I build up a driving rhythm primarily with arco parts at first. I think this makes the entrance of the pizzicato arpeggio a lot more satisfying when it does come in. I really like the very jolly sounding place that the lead arco figure takes after the pizzicato loops have been set, there’s something very happy-traveleresque about the sound of the theme. The next piece is one that I’ve been working on and developing into a Japanese lyric song about my experience viewing the eclipse and how the whole world seemed to disappear. This piece has some really nice figures throughout, and I just really enjoy the sort of optimistic vibe it has. The third piece is a familiar progression, but it eventually takes on a wistful tone, with a wandering not quite lost sensibility.

In the second half the fourth song is from the second livestream. Things are a bit more somber and serious, with a heavier melancholy feeling, quoting some earlier themes I’ve used. I think the heaviness of the 5th piece is my favorite, with its dark drive, I really feel that this piece travels somewhere in time or space. There is a moment where I drop my bow, or knock over some of my streaming decor which you may notice. The final piece continues in the dark and heavy vein, but with a bit more sway to it, giving it more of a heavy dream like dance feeling to it.