Sea Cave Breathing II

Album release date: July 4, 2025

Details

Pipe organ, viola, prepared piano, brass sound sculpture (consisting of found objects and instruments welded together then percussed, trumpeted and activated with transducers and contact mics), projection mapped moving imagery, field recordings featuring: sea caves (temporarily transformed into walk-in cellos via wire and bow), ambulating sea stars, feeding hagfish, stridulating beetles, chorusing frogs and toads, bleating fur seal pups, respiring tortoises, and Oaxacan cicadas.

Pipe organ recorded at Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles. Moving imagery featuring hagfish and moray eels was projection-mapped onto the interior walls of the church, as well as onto the carved wooden organ case.

Brass sound sculpture welded at the Okada Sculpture and Ceramics Facility, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.

Visual album features performances on pipe organ, piano, viola, and sound sculptures at Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, California, Mount Allison University Chapel in New Brunswick, Canada, and sea caves along the coast of southern California.

Track List

1. Sea Cave Breathing II 30:10

2. An Octopus Explores the Hydrophone 00:08

3. Sea Urchin Tube Feet 00:05

4. Hagfish Stygian II 00:24

5. Golden-Headed Lion Tamarin 00:07

6. Fur Seal Pups 00:01

7. Silk Moth Wings 00:16

8. Sea Star Ambulations 00:25

9. Rookery at Bolinas Lagoon 01:17

10. Oaxacan Cicadas 01:41

11. Bats are Listening, 8000 Hz 02:36

12. Bats are Listening, 22050 Hz 00:47

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Credits

Bats recorded by Ben Kinsley at Campbient Residency, Manchester State Park, WA 2025.

Audio mastered by Michael Southard.

Organ music performed on the pipe organs at the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles and the Mount Allison University Chapel in New Brunswick.

Special thanks to Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, Bodega Marine Laboratory and Chapman University, where I recorded sounds made by hagfish, sea urchins, sea stars and more.

Thank you to the Experimental Music + Sound Art Fellowship and the Okada Sculpture & Ceramics Facility at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.

The outdoor sound sculpture installations were temporary and left no trace on the environment.

2025.