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Two Lakes
Only he, The Giver of Life … Precious realities make it rain, From you comes your happiness, Giver of life! … Nezahualcóyotl (1402 –1472) Lake Nezahualcóyotl is a reservoir in Chiapas created as part of a hydroelectric power scheme. The dam was completed in 1966, and the area around the original lake flooded. Just a year earlier a similar flooding drowned the village of Capel Celyn in Wales, controversially displacing its Welsh-speaking residents. At both lakes, droughts cause the periodic re-emergence of the drowned buildings, with increasing regularity: a 16th century church at Lake...
Credits
Two Lakes was composed in 2023 in the Electroacoustic Music Studios of Bangor University, Wales, and was first performed on March 10, 2023 at the Visiones Sonoras 19 festival at Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras (CMMAS), Morelia, Mexico. Materials in the piece were shaped using water level and flow data provided by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (EU) and the National River Flow Archive (UK). I am indebted to Dr Iestyn Woolway, of Bangor University’s School of Ocean Sciences, for his assistance in accessing and understanding the data. Two Lakes was awarded the biennial Prix CIME at the General Assembly of the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music (Rethymno, Greece, 2023).
- ElectroacousticElectronicField Recordings
- 2023
- 8 channels, equidistant circular configuration in stereo pairs (i.e. from front to back: 1 2, 3 4, 5 6, 7 8)
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