Composer John Boswell had been experimenting with sampling and remixing for some time before creating his first YouTube videos. After completing what became A Glorious Dawn, Boswell posted the video on YouTube in September 2009, the video has received more than seven million views and is ranked as one of the top rated videos of all time in the music category. Soon after, Boswell started Colorpulse, an electronica music project, and began to focus on production along with another music project, Symphony of Science.