When I was twenty and studying composition in California, I composed a little percussion piece in which the rhythms seemed to be constantly getting faster, yet never quite arriving.

Two years later I found my way to Alaska, and from the moment I arrived I knew that I’d come home. In Alaska, through my experiences in wild country and my friendships with extraordinary people like the poet John Haines and the conductor Gordon Wright, I discovered the full dimensions of my life’s work. 

More than an environmental documentary, Ice Breath (directed by Leonard Alecu) and Become Ocean is an experimental fusion exploring the vast, inscrutable meanings of climate change.