Okay, so there are a few things I need to say about this one:

1) This piece was done for one of my university classes on contemporary culture in Iceland (yes, it's an elective). Our first assignment was designated "free-play", as in, you could do just about anything you wanted. Some made paintings or sculptures, a couple of people wrote poems or plays, others baked, etc... Since this is my main hobby I figured it would be dumb not to try my hand at a song. The only rule was that whatever you made had to be related to the book that we had read recently, "The Swan", by Guðbergur Bergsson (Try saying that 10 times... actually, try saying that at all haha). Basically it's about this girl who was born and raised by the sea (hence the waves), and she loves it very much, but then she has to go work on a farm in the countryside (she rides horses during that time, hence the galloping at the end), and along the way she evolves as a person emotionally, blah blah blah... So I tried to capture some of the mysterious nature of the book, as well as the feeling of the "abundant space" that seems to be somewhat of a hallmark of Icelandic geography.

2) This is a rare occasion in which I had to create a song based around a pre-existing idea or feeling, rather than just making whatever I want and then "assigning" a meaning to it afterwards. I found it to be an interesting creative challenge. Another key difference is that all the tracks in this song are live recordings, unedited in note volume, duration, etc... so the tempo flows a little bit, and there is a more natural feel to it, I think.

3) I actually presented this in class, but due to technical/audio equipment limitations, I received an extension on the deadline so that my presentation lined up with a guest speaker we had. This was decided because the guest speaker was actually an Icelandic composer (Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson) who was bringing little computer speakers for his lecture on Icelandic music. So, I got to play this song off of his laptop for him, the professor, and about a dozen other people, which was very cool. I received some nice feedback. When I know the grade I got, I'll update this description.

TL;DR -- Uh, Iceland.

EDIT: Got an A!