subaquatic rift

This piece was inspired by the mysterious landscapes seven miles deep on the ocean floor at the Mariana Trench – the deepest oceanic trench on earth. A lack of sunlight and oxygen requires life to adapt–the land resembles something like the moon. It is one of the few areas where photosynthetic communities coexist with chemosynthetic life. When scientists submerged a hydrophone into this trench, natural sounds like earthquakes and baleen whales as well as slight and fleeting sounds of fish movement were captured within this extremely slow-moving aquatic landscape.

The timbre and textures of this composition capture the density and intensity of this oceanic landscape and creates a constellation of fleeting sounds of giant amphipods and single cell amoebas floating in this strange and dark landscape.