As a composer, I spent many sleepless nights and often met the dawn while working on music scores. Meeting dawn and watching the glimpse of light highlighting the sky before the sun rises made me think of the well-known saying “it’s always darkest before dawn.” Looking at definition of dawn, I found that there are 3 ways of measuring the position of the sun at the dawn: astronomical (18 degrees below the horizon), nautical (12 degrees below the horizon) and civil (6 degrees below the horizon). My piece is capturing the impression of the darkest hour and the astronomical dawn, when it is already possible to detect a glimpse of light in the sky.

As a composer, I spent many sleepless nights and often met the dawn while working on music scores. Meeting dawn and watching the glimpse of light highlighting the sky before the sun rises made me think