Notes:

Toward the Mesopelagic is the final movement of the 10-movement work, Elegy for Sheep. Also given as a stand-alone piece, it creates the sensation of light shimmering and slowly disappearing as if one were descending into the ocean’s twilight zone. Meanwhile, debris from the capsized Queen Hind floats through the water. Relying on substantial use of all three pedals (necessitating the crossing of feet), the music is as much in the shimmer and gradual decay of the strangely sustained harmonies as it is in the forte, struck notes. It ends with a solitary bubble, marked ppp. 

Elegy for Sheep was premiered at the Gene Marcus Piano Camp and Festival by the composer in 2025.