Premiere: April 2022, Christopher Eagles Doctoral Recital, Boulder, CO

 

Duration:  ca. 8 min

 

Program Note:

 

The title for this piece, clear and calm pools of tremendous depth, is borrowed from a phrase I found in the park map for Yellowstone National Park. When visiting the hot springs there, I was struck by the vivid turquoise color of the water and how deep these springs went down; seeing the surface triggered my imagination about what the channel looked deeper into the earth. This multimedia piece depicts submerging oneself into the clear blue spring and sinking down into the bottom, hundreds or thousands of feet down. Improvisatory percussion grooves and gestures integrate freely with samples from hot springs, boiling water, mysterious, unidentified deep ocean sounds, and other found sounds and field recordings from the park.