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Octopus Garden, Carolyn Chen – “Tower Thoughts” Carillon New Music Festival

Octopus Garden (2024) Carolyn Chen (b. 1983) World premiere Alex Johnson, carillon Octopus Garden is the second piece in a series inspired by an octopus nursery on underwater hot springs near an extinct submarine volcano 70 miles off the coast of Moss Landing, California. Scientists counted 6,000 octopuses in one section, suspecting over 20,000 in the entire nesting area. Octopus brood periods respond strongly to underwater temperature — given the almost 2-mile depth of water, scientists would have expected five to eight years of brooding time, but the warm spring water reduces hatching time to only two years, substantially lowering the risk of being injured or eaten. Octopus Garden explores an active, fluidly inverting compound melody often frequenting the lower range of the carillon, inspired by the inhabitants of this seafloor nursery. —Carolyn Chen Octopus Garden was commissioned for this festival by Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. This is its world premiere performance. The Tower Thoughts Carillon New Music Festival presented 44 pieces from the 21st century, including 6 new commissions by Rockefeller Chapel and 11 world premieres in total. Three guest artists from around the world, together with University of Chicago carillonists, performed five concerts over the course of a weekend, May 9-11, 2025. Additionally, the tower was given a voice, the live voice of a human, broadcast out the bell chambers via four large speakers. With this voice, between every piece, the tower shared a snippet of its life, a glimpse of what it’s seen, heard, felt, and thought about since 1928, a brief, fleeting tower thought. This festival, devised by Alex Johnson, the 7th University Carillonist of the University of Chicago, is the second Carillon New Music Festival in Chicago History. The first was Ripple Effects, produced in 2018, devised by Joey Brink, the 6th University Carillonist. Recording by C W Media.