delugEON

The concept for delugEON began with arctic icebergs and the dark rhythms created by the sound of their near-continuous melting. As she listened to these sounds, Maya imagined the layers of her singing cello, being permeated by the sounds of a vanishing natural world. In slow seasons she juxtaposed multi-cello layers of each of the slow movements from Vivaldi's four seasons with sounds of melting icebergs (winter), desert dunes (summer), oceanic winds (autumn), and the winds on Mars - as recorded by NASA (spring). Recorded during a period of 7 days in Hudson Hall, New York, delugEON breaks away from the sterile studio environment, utilizing numerous sets of microphones situated in various positions throughout space. This concept allowed for various facets of the natural acoustics to suffuse the sound of Maya's cello with a reverberant, ethereal voice. The entire album was recorded without the use of any artificial or digital sound manipulation.