Out of the Water  for mixed choir and immersive audio

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You are encouraged to close your eyes while listening.

Duration 9' 20"

Choir parts recorded by Vermont Chamber Artists
Gabrielle Gaudreault, conductor
Tunbridge, VT
July 8-9, 2021

Out of the Water
Text by Christopher LaRosa
 
My Name is Gaia.  

I am Mother Earth,
a pale blue dot,
a sphere of life surrounded by 

inanimate immensity.

I am a living entity,
a global organism
with a cosmological life span.

I have existed for eons,
but am only now 
awakening,
developing self-awareness as a 
flickering consciousness of 
human collective.

My nervous system fires
across an interconnected global network
of electronic synapses
and my night side lights up--
bioluminescence on a planetary scale.

I am the lithosphere
biosphere, noösphere,
and technosphere--
a planetary realm of cognizance,
a global unity of human action,
a sphere of emerging intelligent influence.

"The Earth and Myself are of one mind."*

I am Terra Sapiens


*Chief Joseph of the New Perce