Year composed: 2010
Duration: 1′ or 7′
Instrumentation: tape
1′ version written for the Vox Novus 60×60 project, international mix for the Statford Circus, Theatre Square, London E15 1BX, July 2010
World premiere of 7′ version at the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, June 2010
Notes:
My daughter brought a shell and bade me put my ear to it:
—That’s the sound of the ocean, I said.
—Is the ocean inside of it, she asked?
—The shape of the shell causes the sound, I said.
—Then the ocean is the shaper of things, said Sophia. You throw a stick out into
the water and it comes back looking like a fish.