There Must Be Other Names for the River
Horizon Score, September 2026
A score for six singers, amplified and modified as a signal of human intervention. The streamflow data record from 1974 forward has already been sung. Now they sing today forward, imagining ultimately a far future none of us will see.
Singing river futures five movements:
This year
Next year
In ten years
In 100 years
In 1000 years
Each singer is representing a different gauge station -
Singing the headwaters - Monica Demarco
Albuquerque - represented by a buried contact mic, resonating the ground
Elephant butte - Kenn Cornell
Ciudad Juárez / el paso - Antonia Montoya
Big bend - Mauro woody
And the mouth at Brownsville - Marisa Demarco
IN A TIME OF CRISIS, WE GATHER AT THE RIVERBED. EACH DAY IS A FUTURE HORIZON. NOTHING AHEAD OF NOW HAS BEEN MEASURED. WHAT WE SING IS OURS TO FIND. IT COMES OUT OF WHO WE ARE TO THIS WATER, WHAT WE WANT FOR IT, WHAT WE ARE AFRAID OF, AND WHAT WE HOPE FOR THE RIVER. LISTEN UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM.
