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This is a fragment from my piece 'Lines / Panels / Fragments played by the Berkeley Symphony under the baton of Joana Carneiro on the 22nd of January 2012 during the first Under Construction reading in that year.

V. La cruz del sur y el cielo que gira ("The southern cross and the revolving sky")
This piece was commissioned by the Alexander String Quartet for the occasion of their thirtieth anniversary season, and is gratefully dedicated to them.

IV. La tierra fría que duerme ("The sleeping cold earth")
This piece was commissioned by the Alexander String Quartet for the occasion of their thirtieth anniversary season, and is gratefully dedicated to them.

III. Ballenas australes y pingu?inos de Magallanes ("Southern right whales and Magellanic penguins")
This piece was commissioned by the Alexander String Quartet for the occasion of their thirtieth anniversary season, and is gratefully dedicated to them.

II. La tierra caliente que duerme ("The sleeping warm earth")

I. Las aguas del sur ("The southern sea")

My daughter brought a shell and bade me put my ear to it:
—That’s the sound of the ocean, I said.
—Is the ocean inside of it, she asked?
—The shape of the shell causes the sound, I said.
—Then the ocean is the shaper of things, said Sophia. You throw a stick out into the water and it comes back looking like a fish.
text by John Campion