Become Ocean for Orchestra 管弦樂團

"多年來，我的管弦樂變得更簡單、更寬廣。Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing（1991-95 年）包含四種不同的音樂質地。In the White Silence（1998 年）有三種。為路-哈里森》（For Lou Harrison）（2002 年）將其縮減為兩種。在Dark Waves（2007 年）中，我終於找到了一種。當我第一次聽到這首曲子時，我就開始想，我是否能在更長的時間內保持類似的聲音。這就是Become Ocean，一首關於存在的浩瀚、深邃和神秘潮汐的冥想曲"

作曲家: John Luther Adams
樂器: Orchestra
出版社: Chester Music

曲目:
Become Ocean

原文簡介:
“Over the years my orchestral music has become simpler and more expansive. Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing (1991-95) contains four different musical textures. In the White Silence (1998) has three. For Lou Harrison (2002) reduces this to just two. In Dark Waves (2007), I finally got to one. When I first heard that piece I began to wonder if I could sustain a similar sound for a longer span of time. The result is Become Ocean, a meditation on the vast, deep and mysterious tides of existence.

The title is borrowed from a mesostic verse that John Cage wrote in honor of Lou Harrison's birthday. Likening Harrison's music to a river in delta, Cage writes:

Listening to it we become ocean.

Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. And as the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.”

John Luther Adams