This piece arose from a reflection on the way a body of water can represent the idea of a geographical, cultural, conceptual, or identity-based divide. I was interested in how human beings, perhaps sometimes unconsciously, take certain manifestations of nature as symbols, attributing meaning to them.

Different bodies of water — which may change over time according to various circumstances such as climate change, tectonic shifts, and so on — have historically been regarded by human beings as territorial, and even identity-based, boundaries.

At the same time, the technical resources, both individual and collective, as well as the expressive range of the instruments in this piece, are involved in this dynamic search for identity and concept. They attempt to propose a sonic geography situated within the idea of seeking out this boundary.

This demarcation might lie between the expressive richness of the wind instruments in opposition to the strings; between the timbral expressivity of each instrument and its different modes of playing; or within a differentiated perspective arising from opposing sonic realities.

Some of these contrasts may be understood as an analogy with the concept of the border and the search for identity-based differentiation — or perhaps as the unconscious manifestation of an innate need to build memory from both personal and collective identity.