Madre [Mother] is an 8-channel soundscape composition encompassing field recordings from the Yucatán Peninsula, specifically within The Route of the Cenotes in Cancún and on the island of Cozumel. The piece starts slowly with a voice emerging from underwater, later to be joined by rhythmic creatures inside and outside a cenote, natural interconnected underground bodies of water; the listener passes through further bodies of water before surfacing. How can the human voice and natural environments create a relationship, a connection, a shared intimacy?

Year of composition: 2024

Genre: Soundscape

Format: Fixed media

Hardware used: Zoom H5 Field Recorder

Software used: Ableton Live, MConvolutionEZ

Duration of the submitted work: 8:57

Premiere: April 25, 2024, Octophonic SFU-Concordia Exchange Concert, Goldcorp Centre for the Contemporary Arts, Studio T.