4 minutes 11 seconds
In Collaboration with Jess Briggs, PhD Student, University of Wisconsin – Madison

For this piece of music I was greatly inspired by the work Jess Briggs does with freshwater ponds and the trickling down of minor changes in algae and sentiment content affects larger ponds. My goal was to replicate this idea of the trickle down using samples entirely derived out of sounds made in or with water by using bowls, tubes, cymbals and different forms of water in different motions on top of these instruments. This piece explores how human runoff can birth massive algal blooms, these algal blooms can create ecological dead zones that devastate communities. As an artist I create with the goal of directing the listener to think deeply about the way they affect the world, the things they may not take notice of and to invoke reflection on the natural beauty that nature and people reflect.