Metamorphoses Ovid-19

"In the original recording you hear the voices of a multitude of frogs croaking. My associations around frogs led me back to a term, that I first encountered in march 2020, around the time the first Covid-lockdown started: catastrophic metamorphosis. A catastrophic metamorphosis is the final transition from the last larval stage to the adult stage. This profound remodeling often takes place in an immobile pupal stage, when the larva's body turns entirely liquid and the rudiments are being reassembled into a new shape. As Ovid wrote in his famous Metamorphoses: everything changes, nothing perishes. I used this phrase as a metaphor for my composition. The voices of the frogs constantly change, and reappear in modified ways, yet they never disappear completely."

Canada Prince George frogs reimagined by Nathalie Anne-Marie Rosenbaum.