The piece is born after a period of experimentations on tactile transducers, feedback systems, and electroacoustic interactions. The electronics’ output is routed directly to acoustic surfaces (drum’s skin, cymbals, piano strings etc.), creating a blurred boundary between acoustic and electronic sounds.

Despite the blending of the timbral entities, these two layers follow separate formal paths, or similar paths at different speeds, similarly to what happens in a laminar flow, as described by fluid dynamics (in which each layer move smoothly past the adjacent, with little or no mixing). The title also refers to the rhythmic flow of ever-changing waves, since the piece has been written in a room literally in front of the Ligurian sea, in early 2021.

During that period, everyday and every night  I watched and listened to the winter sea, especially during my late night experimentations with microtonally-tuned bottles and transducers on drum-set. The deep and dark blue of the sea at night had a great impact on the way I composed this work, leading me to explore (and embrace) low frequencies and vast resonances.