Though just a kid, our Thanksgiving birthday party was a magical initiation into a secret adult world of fancy rooms, classical music, tinkling cocktails and wink-wink innuendoes.
Rather than trying to depict these elements in programmatic terms, the music simply uses them as points of departure for flights of purely musical fancy.
Like the neurological condition of synesthesia, an involuntary combination of the senses, Vayenas' music is meant to provide both an aural stimulus and a place where artistic fancy colors a listener's perception.