David Horvitz - When The Ocean Sounds
David Horvitz - When The Ocean Sounds
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David Horvitz made the score ‘When the ocean sounds’ for human voices intended to mimic the sound of the sea.
The work is linked to an idea of maritime biologist Rachel Carson, who wrote that the percentage of salt in the sea is equal to the salinity of our blood. This idea supports a theory that all life comes from the sea. Imagine the first life forms, with porous skin or cell walls, through which the sea could freely flow into and out of their small bodies. At a certain moment, however, these life forms evolve. They come out of the sea and develop a different type of skin, one that allows them to keep liquids within their bodies. These liquids are ultimately seawater, and so the creatures – as do we – carry the sea with them, no matter where they go. In a way, transcribing and performing the sounds of the sea are exercises in listening and meditating out loud. At the same time, they are exercises in imagining or remembering that we are actually
part of the sea.
Intended to be performed by 51 participants, the score is printed on 60gsm uncoated paper, and slipped in a silkscreened PVC sleeve, with
instructions printed on front.
First edition of 500 copies.
Page count: 104 pages / 52 loose sheets
Cover: Unbound in PVC sleeve
Published by Yvon Lambert & Shelter Press
Release date November 2018
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