This setting of Sarah Arvio’s
poem Côte d’Azur evokes the text’s various
vocal characters as they speak through the ocean water – words
mellifluous, sometimes esoteric, often wise. The music is suggestive
of a fleeting moment of immersion, as the water speaks its mysteries.
In The Inner Voices of Blue, the spoken voices provoke the
sea into various tidal undulations, a series of ocean swells that are
subsumed by a breaker wave of vocal lyricism.