About the Music
This piece consists of music written for two choirs, chamber choir, and collected voices. The singers of the collected voices group, singing the music below, are imitating the sound of waves washing up on the shore at night.

There’s no need to worry about how to sync up with other singers; the desired effect is to have each singer be rhythmically disjunct from one another to create the illusion of a blurry line that washes over the music sung by the other choir parts.

Though the rhythm is very free, accurate pitch is extra important. Singers are encouraged to take time during fermatas to mark a pitch with the voice and sound a nearby instrument to aid pitch accuracy. There’s no need to stop recording as it will be edited together afterwards.

The rhythm is simplified into long notes and short notes. As a general guide, the music should be sung in rhythm that matches the natural rhythm of the words. The composer suggests speaking through the text once or twice to find a natural rhythm that suits your taste. That being said, singers should exaggerate the length of long notes. The composer suggests that they could be as short as double, to six or seven times, the length of short notes.

Breaths can be taken wherever it feels most natural to do so.