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eau [o] n. (F, = water) 1. ... [o] seeks to establish a metaphorical relationship between music and water. The meaning of this metaphor, as is the case with all metaphors, is endlessly open to interpretation. Completed in Berlin, February 2001 in the Grosse Tonstudio of the Technische Universitat Berlin, thanks to a DAAD stipendium.

Credits - Interviewees: Katrin Becker, Robert Frances, Guinevere Narraway, David Prior Voices: Isobel Bolter, Lee Differ, Antti Saario, Gareth Thomas, Richard Whitelaw, Michael Wolters; Musical Excerpts: Britten Sea Interlude No. 3 (from Peter Grimes); Debussy La Mer; Handel Water Music; Schumann Symphony No.3 (Das Rhenisch); Smetana Die Moldau (Vlatava); Instrumentalists: Iain Armstrong, violin; Alistair Bannerman, piano