Sea Cave Breathing II
Album release date: July 4, 2025
Details
Pipe organ, viola, prepared piano, geophone, transducers, contact mics, brass sound sculpture (consisting of found brass objects and instruments welded together then percussed, trumpeted and activated with transducers and contact mics), field recordings featuring: sea caves, animals that build their lives around sea caves in intertidal zones (sea stars, urchins and octopi), and animals from further afield (hagfish, beetles, fur seal pups and Oaxacan cicadas).
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
"The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp", July 2025, by Matthew Blackwell
Credits and Gratitude
Bats recorded by Ben Kinsley at CAMPBIENT Residency, Manchester State Park, WA 2025.
Audio mastered by Michael Southard (RumourTone Music LLC).
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.
Pipe organ parts recorded at Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles.
Brass sound sculpture welded at the Okada Sculpture and Ceramics Facility, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.
