For Clarinet with Live Electronics and Video
Composed: October, 2023
Written for Brooke Miller as part of the Fulbright Arctic Initiative
Premiered at NYU Steinhardt as part of the SEAMUS Rhizomatic Conference
In Vatnajökull National Park in Iceland, the glaciers are quickly receding, spurred on by global warming and a changing climate. Within the receding glacier, are ice caves carved by melt water and rain as it flows off the glacier and toward the ocean.
Within Ice uses recordings from within and around these ice caves to explore the quickly changing environment on the glacier. Melting drops of water are echoed back on themselves, revealing pitches and chords. Streams within the glacier change pitch as the water flows increasingly quickly. Centrally, the soundscape captures my feeling of siting within the cave, watching the teal light filtering through the roof of the cave, and hearing the changing streams and drips of water echo all around me.