Most of us are engaged in a life long process - a struggle really - of trying to understand who we are, what our beliefs are and what our individual purposes are.  I believe this kind of thinking, irrespective of one's perceived level of success at finding answers, leads to a more profound understanding of the world around us. The starting point is almost always at the beginning - where we came from, the roots that shaped us, both genetically and through learned behavior. This composition is dedicated to all those who have taken up this worthy quest - the endless search for self.
John B. Waylett
August 11, 2023

The Endless Search For Self - Finalist Great American Song Contest 2023

Chordal Equinox

On the surface this seems quite a simple piece - a selection of stacked whole note chords moving around the orchestra at a stately 50bpm - but if you close your eyes and allow yourself to breathe deeply with the music, the inner rhythm of the beatings of the intervals, the phase shifting between the interments, and your own mind and inner ear moving between the (sometimes dense) notes, the piece takes on a whole  different, deeper character. It’s OK to meditate to this piece 😉 

The final climax, I believe, is the most ecstatic, uplifting, almost semi-religious, I have written.

The Endless Search For Self - Finalist Great American Song Contest 2023

John B. Waylett

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