"Song For an Ocean So Deep" was written to describe the ocean from my eyes, while also telling the story of what may happen if we aren’t careful to protect it. Listen for the sounds of waves moving up onto the beach, and then washing away again. Look for the rocky shore in your imagination, and hear the surf waging an eternal war against it. Then, moving into the water and away from shore, you hear a pod of whales in song. The pod initially has many whales, but as time passes, there seem to be fewer and fewer, until only one remains to call out to its family that is no longer there. This is what may happen if we don’t make an effort to protect our oceans, and I decided to use this piece as an outlet to tell the story in fiction so it doesn’t become a reality.

This was the quote I chose to go with the live stream of the premier of the piece:
"I couldn't get you to the ocean, but there was nothing stopping me bringing the ocean to you."

- Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Thank you so much to Delgani String Quartet for their amazing performance of my work, I can't thank you enough for bringing my music to life. I also want to say thank you to Isaak Boorstein for his help and opinions while I engineered the field recordings used in this piece.

I finally have a website for myself, where you can find information about me and what I have been working on lately, and where you can go to get in contact with me:
maxmabry.com

Thank you for listening to my piece.

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