Music for a Changing Tide at Ocean Beach

Music for a Changing Tide is a group listening event created specifically for the observation of the receding tide at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach.

Participants are invited to download the music onto their portable listening device ahead of time. Gathering at print shop 3 Fish Studios, two groups (one at sunset, one at twilight) will be led to a place on the beach where participants sit and observe while listening as a group.

This time and site-specific event will trace the changing of space, water and light as the tide recedes. Animal and plant life are constantly reacting to changes in intertidal areas, water and sky color, and the particular ways the tides come and go. All these discrete changes, when observed as a group, help draw greater awareness to place, space, and to the moment, appreciating our natural environment in new ways and with greater reverence—thus impacting our decisions in our everyday lives.

Download the music onto your portable listening device before the event. Please bring warm jackets and blankets as Ocean Beach can be foggy and windy this time of year.

 

Seattle composer Nat Evans writes concert music for various mixed chamber ensembles, distinctive electro-acoustic music, and site-specific music events that fuse nature, community and subjectivity of experience. His music is regularly presented across the United States and has been performed in Europe, South America, Australia and China. Evans has received numerous commissions, including those at the Seattle Percussion Collective, the Harrison Center for the Arts, ODEONQUARTET, Seattle Pacific University Men’s Choir and Percussion Ensemble, Beta Test Ensemble, The Box Is Empty, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. His music has been featured on a number of American radio stations as well as BBC3 and in the 2011 Music Issue of The Believer. He studied music at Butler University with Michael Schelle and Frank Felice.