Written for Paula Rae and Eliza Shephard of ELISION
Instrumentation: Flute & Bass Flute
Duration: 8 minutes 30 seconds
Premiere: 2024 – Melbourne
About the work:
Phytoplankton are essential participants in a number of crucial ecological processes, forming the base of almost all marine food webs and producing a large percentage of global oxygen through photosynthesis. While invisible to human eyes the majority of the time during springtime these phytoplankton often form large algal blooms that can be seen from space. They also move at the complete mercy of ocean drifts and currents, with the plankton half of their name being derived from the Greek for wanderer/drifter (planktos). This piece explores some of these characteristics in a variety of ways including drifting sonic lines and self-sustaining energies
Nathaniel Otley 