My santa has fantastic gifting skills! Based on one small detail in my preferences they found this fascinating recording that resonates with so many of my interests!

From the liner notes:

dark over light earth was created for the final weekend of the exhibition mocca's mark rothkos, which featured 8 paintings from the museum of contemporary art's permanent collection.

i initially made a list of every color in each of the 8 paintings, to generate a score. i recorded myself playing the score on harmonium and glockenspiel - the notes and their order pre-determined by my color notations; and the tempo, duration, and overall feel, improvised. some of these recordings were then processed electronically with filters.

the composition was created by cutting up, layering, and re-organized the recordings. i wanted to let the conceptual ideas remain a skeletal structure, but also allow the piece to move beyond them... kind of like taking an early sol lewitt cube piece and absent mindedly wrapping twine around it until the original form is almost invisible.