This composer includes his middle name so he can be told from another American composer, John Adams (b. 1948). This Adams has made his home in Alaska. His music is often suffused with a dreamy timelessness that for some reason is fairly common among composers from northern countries. This work, which is for orchestra, is an homage to Morton Feldman, a New York composer who specialized in a serene, distant sounding music where events take place slowly. J.L. Adams utilizes a similar, almost eerie, feeling of changelessness to paint "both the distant dreamscapes of the Arctic and that ultimate wilderness, through which we all must pass." An unusually effective and haunting work.

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