Composer's Note:

Adrian Foster reconstructed one of Saito's lost subaqueous improvisations, giving it the name "The Great Flood." Here, relentless arpeggiated figures summon a torrential rainfall, evoking water in its most awe-inspiring and dreadful states. The deluge waxes and wanes in intensity through sudden textural and tonal shifts in the organ part. All the while this builds to a point of total saturation, where swirling walls of superimposed organ sound overtake the backdrop of pouring rain.

 

Composed and performed by Adrian Foster for the concert "Music for the Hydroörganon" Photo credit: Kai Mathews Check out our website to learn more about the literature components of this project. https://www.earthworldcollaborative.com/en/music-for-the-hydroorganon