How to play Mariana is a text-score for ensemble of musicians, dancers, or actors, exploring deep-sea soundscapes. This piece has seven 'movements'. For each, the ensemble should select a duration in advance (up to 7 minutes). Between each movement, there should be a pause. Each movement should be interpreted freely, but performers might like to consider: different ways of moving (as if in the deep sea), different forms of echo, different ways of showing depth, increasing darkness/pressure/cold (dissipating light/heat), relationships of drifting, isolation of sounds, obscure shapes (barely visible, coming in and out of view), different currents of water.

Text score originally written as editorial for the MAY MASS: DEEP (2021) : https://themasscollection.wixsite.com/mysite/may-2021

Premiered by the Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble in Eugene (OR, USA), October…