The Drop That Contained the Sea Christopher Tin · 2014 · The water cycle
A Song Cycle of Water

Follow a single drop
around the world.

Ten pieces in ten languages, tracing water through its every form — from a hidden spring through rivers and seas, up into cloud and rain and snow, and back again. Scroll to travel with it.

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"The drop that contained the sea
was itself contained by the sea."

The album closes where it began — at the edge of the inexhaustible. Every language above belongs to a people shaped by water; every piece is a single drop, and the sea entire.

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