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Deiopea is the name of a bioluminescent comb jelly that lives  many miles under the sea. The creature has tentacle-like combs that are  animated with rainbow lights, as the plates on the combs split the light  spectrum as they move. I held this image in mind as I composed this piece, imagining how a sound can emerge and reemerge in many colors.

 

Deiopea was commissioned by Timothy Hanley.