2024

From the composer: “Not long ago, at a rest stop in Utah while crossing the Great Basin of the desert West for the first time, I felt myself sinking into the voids between the massive walls of layered rock, millions of years of geologic history—planetary history—staring me in the face.  I later discovered that if I had been at that spot 500 million years earlier, I would have been quite literally on the bottom of a vast tropical sea that covered North America from the Arctic Ocean down to the Gulf of Mexico. Dry Ocean tells the story of this magical place, about scales of time and change that seem beyond human comprehension.”

Prologue: Uncomformaties

I. Falling Backwards

II. Still Point: Cambrian

III. Sedimentation

Epilogue: Dry Ocean