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This composition was inspired by a magical night-time kayak session on the Salmon river near the Sitka Center for Arts and Ecology in Oregon during my recorder residency there in March of 2023, together with my friend and fellow Sitka resident Daisy. We put our boats on the water around midnight. The river water looked black in the darkness, but sparkled with bioluminescence on contact with our paddles, and the clear night sky was full of stars, which were in turn reflected on the water. We let ourselves slowly drift inland on the incoming tide. After a while, all sense of time and direction ceased to exist. We felt tiny, simply enveloped in sparkly specks of light, cradled by the universe. The written melodies in this composition came out of improvisations, and can therefore be enhanced with ad. lib. ornamentation. I explored a modal texture cradled within shifting harmonies.

This Members’ Library Edition is made possible by a generous donation from Anthony Morgan of Vancouver, BC.