For the 'Moonlight Sonata,' Maya Beiser recorded her own heartbeat using a retrofitted stethoscope and layered it with Beethoven's music.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Maya Beiser, the cellist and arranger on this album, views making music as an act of mining, discovering music as it is being created.
Compositional Technique
Olivier Messiaen's 'L'eau' (Water) was originally written for a quartet of ondes martenot, a 1920s French electronic instrument similar to the theremin.
Recording & Production
The album's artwork features digital collages by Denise Burt, using an original image of Arctic Sea Ice Lead from NASA/GSFC.
Interpretation
Maya Beiser layered her multi-cello arrangements of classical masterpieces with sounds of a 'dying world,' including melting arctic ice, desert dunes, oceanic winds, and Martian winds.
Interpretation
Maya Beiser layered the sound of her own breath, recorded with a stethoscope, into her multi-cello arrangement of Messiaen's 'L'eau'.
Album & Artwork
The album's concept, 'Delugeon,' emerged from the sounds of melting icebergs, with environmentalists recording ten hours of these sounds.
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