Vowel Meditation for tape, started as a statistical study of the behaviour of languages, where special attention was later given to the occurrence and combination of vowels and diphthongs. The original input is a text in Icelandic, which is analyzed and changed into music according to the occurrence of vowels and diphthongs, and their relationship with the surrounding consonants. Actually, any text could be input and analyzed this way, telling something about the difference between languages. The resultant statistics are then used as the basis for the triggering of voice samples of vowels and diphthongs.

The original input text for Vowel Meditation was an unsuccessful grant application (to get at least some return for all the work that went into it). Most of the piece was done using various home-made functions in Macintosh Common Lisp, with some additional sweetening done using Jam Factory, an interactive music processor, both running on a Macintosh computer.

The title refers to the material and the mental speed of the piece; the material being vowels, and the process of change in texture being somewhat slow. The work was composed in 1992 at the Institute of Sonology, The Hague. A quadraphonc remix vas done at DIEM, Aarhus, Denmark in 1998.