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Saxl continues to utilize chamber-music ensemble alongside digital experimentation, deeply tuning into textural emotion. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMadeline Island marks the last land mass before the frigid, all-consuming waters of Lake Superior. \"I was trying to capture the sense of disappearing horizon, lostness, awe, and dark power that feels really innate to Lake Superior,\" says Saxl.\" It is also constantly changing-drifts change directions, water becomes ice, ice breaks apart and becomes waves. There is constant movement from drifts to surfaces, surfaces to drifts.\" While her 2021 breakthrough LP, The Blue of Distance, worked with recordings from the lake itself, Saxl's source material here comes primarily from live percussion and other live instrumentation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \"Drifts I\" and \"Drifts II,\" commissioned by Chicago's Third Coast Percussion and Brooklyn's Tigue, percussion parts intertwine like shifting bodies of water with Saxl transforming drum rolls into expansive chords. \"Surfaces,\" commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum for the 2022 Alex Katz retrospective, features strings, saxophone, and glass marimba. Saxl processes acoustic instruments through various forms of digital manipulation that cause distortion and deterioration, mirroring the pixelated and lossy experience of life in the digital age. 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Each episode explores a specific location, including the Los Angeles River, Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, Joshua Tree National Park, and the Mojave Desert. The series' soundtrack, composed by Elori Saxl, underscores the emotional narratives of these places, emphasizing the interplay between humans and nature and the impact of human-constructed environments. Drawing inspiration from artists like Alice Coltrane and Hiroshi Yoshimura, Saxl craed the music using digitally manipulated recordings of water and wind, analog synthesizers, MIDI samples, and processed woodwinds performed by Stuart Bogie (clarinet, bass clarinet, flute). This unique blend of sounds evokes the musical heritage of Los Angeles and the overall ambiance of wind, sun, and Southern California culture. The music loosely references the psychedelic and dreamlike sounds oen associated with Los Angeles' past and present. 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Each moment breathes with unhurried elegance and an emotional depth that stops you in your tracks. 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