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Seascapes, Jessica Wells – “Tower Thoughts” Carillon New Music Festival

Seascapes (2019) 0:00 I. Coral City 2:57 II. Atlantis 7:09 III. Monsoon Gyre Jessica Wells (b. 1974) Chicago premiere Tiffany Ng, carillon Seascapes is in three contrasting movements which take their inspiration from the sea, and use different moods to underscore the varied sonorities of the bells, from sparkling and twinkly to dark and dramatic. The addition of soprano Jacqueline Dark adds an operatic twist to the tracks, and the music was mixed by renowned film score mixer Evan McHugh (Elvis). Movement 1, Coral City, is inspired by snorkeling at Australia’s famous Lord Howe Island, a special place where tropical and sub-tropical fish coincide, and paints a picture of a teeming “city” of multicolored fish darting in and out of the coral homes. Movement 2, Atlantis, uses underwater sounds and atmospheres to create a darker mood. Punctuated by an anvil-like percussion sound, the low bells toll for the underwater lost city’s inhabitants. Movement 3, Monsoon Gyre, is all about the wind that lashes over the surface of the ocean. The cyclonic vortex is represented in the music with whirling figures in the carillon and electronic flurries. —Jessica Wells 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.