Our Music: Voice of the Animals

We are living in a garden with a billion diverse beings blooming in a diversity of form. A majestic cacophony of all living things sings the song of life. Even a grain of sand can sing the history of eons of life on Earth, beginning in the deep blue world: a mesmerizing intelligence in perpetual motion, the ocean. On land each living creature has meaning and purpose, every ant, bee and bird. The Earth itself is alive and has a voice. 

I wrote the music of Voice of the Animals to honor all of nature’s voices. My music gives expression to these unique and irreplaceable beings. The science and sonifications reflected in the music confront the devastation of all that beauty, the trembling terror felt even by the trees of the threat of annihilation of their world.  

From the world of tiny insects to the watery world of the pink river dolphin, to the mighty lion and elephant: They are calling us to reclaim our connection and to remember that we are not just spectators – we are the hope and promise for safeguarding the natural world into the distant future.  

Scarlet Rivera, January 2024

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