Silences So Deep: Music, Solitude, Alaska

A memoir of a composer's life in the Alaskan wilderness and a meditation on making art in a landscape acutely threatened by climate change.

In the summer of 1975, the composer John Luther Adams, then a twenty-two-year-old graduate of CalArts, boarded a flight to Alaska. So began a journey into the mountains and forests of the far north-and across distinctive mental and aural terrain-that would last for the next forty years.Silences So Deep is Adams's account of these formative decades-and of...