Walking On Water

Walking on Water images began as Fujimura’s elegy to the victims of March 11th, 2011 Tohoku Great Earthquake and the Tsunami. 11 Spirituals were composed by Susie Ibarra to accompany Walking on Water paintings by Makoto Fujimura. This album includes two compositions created out of field recordings of water in Sikkim and India in the Himalayas. These field recordings are part of an ongoing project, Water Rhythms: Listening to Climate Change, a collaboration between Susie Ibarra and Michele Koppes (climate scientist, glaciologist and geographer). Jennifer Choi was recorded by Kevin S. Hahn at Opal Studio in Portland, Oregon Yves Dharamraj was recorded remotely in Florida Claudia Acuña was recorded at Figure 8 Studios by Philip Weinrobe Yuka C. Honda was recorded remotely in Franklin, New York Jake Landau and Susie Ibarra were recorded at Spillway Sound by Eli Crews Walking on Water Spirituals were mixed by Eli Crews at Spillway Sound Mastered by Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio Water Compositions were mixed by Jake Landau at Crossroads Studio Field Records were recorded in support by the Asian Cultural Council Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship 2018 and 2019 and a Bennington College Faculty Grant. The raw field recordings were recorded by Susie Ibarra, Michele Koppes, Jake Landau, and Rajesh Kumar Singh in 3 water towers of Easton Glacier, Washington State, Ganges River in Banares, India and Sikkim, Himalayas.