The initial inspiration for Alien Altar came from a desire to write a piece that could feel at once distant and remote, yet intimate and close. It is perhaps too easy a metaphor, but the far reaches of deepest space have always represented to me an ultimate expanse, the final threshold of perceptibility where knowledge breaks down into incomprehension. Alien Altar is a paean to that idea at the edge of our imagination, seeing it as something nearly holy in its profound distance and unreachability. Alien Altar was written for Sandbox Percussion.