Ocean scientists understand that the world’s Ocean provides something extraordinary, on scales almost beyond the mind’s grasp – an interaction between ocean, atmosphere and land that supports all life.

This is a narrative on a grand scale, reminding us we are dependent on vast, sustaining planetary systems: we are from the Ocean – the Ocean sustains us – but the Ocean is changing in response to human activities.

ex Oceano is a collaboration between different disciplines and different understandings. Ocean scientists expressed their science to a composer: the composer expressed that science back to them in sonic form – through the making of a symphony.

Composer Notes
As Amy Tan suggests, so it is for me with music. Each piece that I compose seems only to come about through some unpredictable change in life that has directed me to this style of expression. Just as a chance involvement with a play by the Tasmanian playwright Tom Holloway led me to compose my first symphony in response to the Port Arthur Mas