The way that I think about music has been profoundly influenced by the work of Charles Ives. I had the chance to do some study of his fourth symphony for composition lessons during my undergraduate studies, and I became enamored with how seamlessly he connected and superimposed distant musical ideas and styles into a dreamscape of texture and color. In this work I utilize a version of that concept in order to explore the question "what is melody?" This work uses three superimposed ideas--an ambient electronic soundscape, a singing, more classical, but less than active melodic line, and a vaguely hip-hop style narrator--in order to create a Kaleidoscope of color, texture, and message. The narrator of this work is Dr. Cornell West. He is one of the most active civil right advocates of the last 50 years and is the former professor of African American Studies at Harvard and Princeton.