Program Notes:

From a scientic standpoint, the Equinox occurs when the tilt of the Earth's axis points neither away from or towards the sun. Because of this phenomenon, the day on which the equinox occurs will be roughly the same legnth as the following night. It is the breif moment in time that only occurs twice a year when our planet is closest to an equal seperation of dark and light. From a philosophical or spirtual standpoint, one could take this as a balence of ying and yang; good and evil; truth and delusion, et cetera. The Equinox signals a balance, but only for a short moment. But more importantly, it signals a change. It only takes a single day for the balance to be shifted to either side, darkness or light. Day or night. Opposites switching sides, and cycling back and forth every half of a year. The concept of the push and pull can be found everywhere, from one's own mind to the world around you. Times are always changing. There's a struggle everywhere you turn. The pressure builds and builds, much like how the days get shorter as the nights get longer, or vise-versa. The world is constantly in a power struggle that never seems to end. The mystical "time of peace" seems to only occur for a moment, much like the Equinox. This peice explores this concept of the procession of the Equinox, the switching from darkness to light and back, a constant push and pull, until the Equinox occurs and a stillness is felt, outlined only by airy chords and a constant vibraphone drone. But things pick up quickly as the piece decends into darkness or accends into the light.

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Recording with real instruments to come soon, if all goes well!