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“Saturated Sounds”: Making
Water Music
In “Saturated Sounds” presented at experienced on the pilgrimage, he
the Tributaries Seminar (Aug 16) designed a musical composition, to
and Colloquium (Nov 20), Dr be assembled collectively with
Holtzman argues that human selected students. In his words:
relationships to water’s “The composition and performance
soundscapes are expressed in of this work is a tribute to the
aesthetic interpretations of what he fluidity of the connection between
calls “saturated sounds.” On the water and humans, and also the
Sea-to-Source Pilgrimage he found connection between humans and
diverse opportunities to experience humans, working together in fluid,
and record “saturated sounds.” His creative cohesion. The result is a
interest in water’s soundscapes prayerful meditation on the notion
sensitised other pilgrims to water’s of harmonisation as fluidity.” In the
sound intensities emanating, for presentation, he considers the
example, from machinery at the fluidity of [human] nature as a sonic
waste water treatment works, rain metaphor, describes the creative
on the roof at Redhouse (besides processes used, the timbral palate
the Zwartkops River), and small selected, and the ideas and affects
tributary streams at Groendal. In related to making music with, and
response to the “saturated sounds” about, water.
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