Flood Tide I
For this project, I worked with musicians Chris Williams and Zosha Warpeha to listen to sounds I'd recorded of a sea cave and to respond to these sounds with their trumpet and violin, while I responded on viola. This is the soundscape that emerged from that collaboration. We recorded this piece at the Atlantic Center for the Arts with support from a One Beat Fellowship in April 2023.
The pulses and growls you hear are the sounds of a wire being stretched across a sea cave and bowed with a cello bow during a previous installation, Sea Cave Transmogrification I (https://vimeo.com/802569624?share=copy) and Sea Cave Complex (https://vimeo.com/802503338?share=copy). The wire sonifies the sea cave; like in a stone cathedral, the walls of the cave sustain reverberation and reflect sound. Waves, cave drips, sea winds, shore birds and other found sounds become part of the polyphony. Footage shows the sea cave and surrounding reef complex during a flood current, or incoming tide.
Zosha Warpeha—violin https://zoshawarpeha.com
Chris Williams—trumpet https://www.chriswilliamssound.com/
Julia Edith Rigby—viola, sound sculpture
2023