Meditation is an art piece written to allow listeners, or the performer, to meditate. Centered around an ostinato
to represent the self, the piece explores feelings of growth and decay, otherworldliness, and almost complete
silence. Written in part to stretch conventional ideas of music and notation, Meditation could be described as a
marimba etude due to the sheer amount of concentration required by the soloist in order to perform the piece
effectively, but I prefer to think of it as a study of one’s self. A significant portion of the piece is improvisatory,
so most factors are to be uniquely determined by the performer.