Kristen Beiler Thomas, soprano
Jennifer Hymel, Christa Tumlinson, James Tecuatl-Lee, Jonathan Riemer, small group

TEXT:

...it behooves a Magician, and one that aspires to the dignity of the profession, to be an exact and very perfect Philosopher. For Philosophy teaches, what are the effects of fire, Earth, air, and water, the principal matter of the heavens; and what is the cause of the flowing of the sea,
and of the diverse colored rainbow; and of the loud thunder, and of comets, and fiery lights that appear by night, and of Earthquakes; and what are the beginnings of Gold and of Iron; and what is the whole force of hidden nature...

Those effects of Nature which we often see, have so employed the ancient Philosopher's minds in the searching forth of their causes, that they have taken great pains, and yet were much deceived therein; inasmuch that so many of them held such diverse opinions; which it shall not be amiss to relate, before we proceed any further...

Now the trouble began. The student who has been trained in research at Oxbridge has no doubt some method of shepherding his question past all distractions till it runs into his answer as a sheep runs into its pen. The student by my side, for instance, who was copying assiduously from a scientific manual, was, I felt sure, extracting pure nuggets of the essential ore every ten minutes or so. His little grunts of satisfaction indicated so much. But if, unfortunately, one has had no training in a university, the question far from being shepherded to its pen flies like a frightened flock hither and thither, helter-skelter, pursued by a whole pack of hounds.

— Virginia Woolf. 1929. A Room of One's Own. New York NY, Harcourt Brace and Company. Used with permission.

What therefore could be thought on that is greater? It is Nature's part to produce things, and give them faculties, but art may ennoble them when they are produced, and give them many several qualities. Let one that loves learning, and to search out Nature's secrets, enter upon this.

— Giambattista della Porta. 1558-1589. Natural Magick. English translation from London, Printed for T. Young and S. Speed, 1658.

TEXT:

THEY SPEAK AS ONE

And then they spoke as one.

Do not concern yourself with us,We have no concern for you.

You may contend with our true nature,As numbers with infinity,We neither wish you illNor wish you well.

You may raise your fist against us,As a clock against its cogs.While you’re here, we will be here.When you’re gone, you will be gone.

There is no more to be said.

-James Tecuatl-Lee

TEXT:

The Parties to the present Convention, determined to promote relations and cooperation in the field of environmental protection,
...
Recognizing the existence of possible adverse effects, in the short and long term, of air pollution including transboundary air pollution, concerned that a rise in the level of emissions of air pollutants within the region as forecast may increase such adverse effects, recognizing the need to study the implications of the long-range transport of air pollutants and the need to seek solutions for the problems identified, affirming their willingness to reinforce active international cooperation
...
Have agreed as follows:
…
The Contracting Parties, taking due account of the facts and problems involved, are determined to protect man and his environment against air pollution and shall endeavor to limit and, as far as possible, gradually reduce and prevent air pollution including long-range transboundary air pollution.
...
The Contracting Parties, within the framework of the present Convention, shall by means of exchanges of information, consultation, research and monitoring, develop without undue delay policies and strategies which shall serve as a means of combating the discharge of air pollutants, taking into account efforts already made at national and international levels.
...
The Contracting Parties shall exchange information on and review their policies, scientific activities and technical measures aimed at combating, as far as possible, the discharge of air pollutants which may have adverse effects, thereby contributing to the reduction of air pollution including long-range transboundary air pollution.
...
Consultations shall be held, upon request, at an early stage between, on the one hand, contracting Parties which are actually affected by or exposed to a significant risk of long-range transboundary air pollution and, on the other hand, contracting Parties within which and subject to whose jurisdiction a significant contribution to long-range transboundary air pollution originates, or could originate, in connection with activities carried on or contemplated therein.
...
The present Convention shall be open for accession as from 17 November 1979

— Convention on long-range transboundary air pollution, Geneva, 13 November, 1979, United Nations Treaty Series, vol. 1302, No. 21623, p. 217.

Kate Burns Winchester, soprano

TEXT:

I know of only three metallic substances, namely, zinc, iron and tin, that generate inflammable air by solution in acids; and those only by solution in the diluted vitriolic acid, or spirit of salt.
…
It seems likely from hence, that, when either of the above-mentioned metallic substances are dissolved in spirit of salt, or the diluted vitriolic acid, their phlogiston flies off, without having its nature changed by the acid, and forms the inflammable air.
…
With one part of inflammable air to 9 of common air, the mixture would not take fire, on applying the lighted paper...

With 2 parts of inflammable to 8 of common air, it took fire immediately, on applying the flame...

With 3 parts of inflammable air to 7 of common air, there was a very loud noise.

With 4 parts of inflammable to 6 of common air, the sound seemed very little louder.

With equal quantities of inflammable and common air, the sound seemed much the same...

With 6 parts of inflammable to 4 of common air, the sound was not very loud...

With 7 parts of inflammable to 3 of common air, there was a very gentle bounce or rather puff...

A mixture of 8 parts of inflammable to 2 of common air caught fire on applying the flame, but without any noise: it continued burning for some time in the neck of the bottle, and then went out, without the flame ever extending into
the belly of the bottle.

It appears from these experiments, that this air, like other inflammable substances, cannot burn without the assistance of common air.

— Henry Cavendish. 1766. XIX. Three papers, containing experiments on factitious air. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. 56: 141–184

Elise Ragland, soprano
Rob Johnson, narrator

TEXT:

You will have heard an account of the dreadful earthquake of the 20th of February. I wish some of the geologists, who think the earthquakes of these times are trifling, could see the way in which the solid rock is shivered. In the town there is not one house habitable...

I have not attempted to give any detailed description of the appearance of Concepcion, for I feel that it is quite impossible to convey the mingled feelings which I experienced… It is a bitter and humiliating thing to see works, which have cost man so much time and labour, overthrown in one minute; yet compassion for the inhabitants was almost instantly banished, by the surprise in seeing a state of things produced in a moment of time, which one was accustomed to attribute to a succession of ages...

There can be no doubt that the land round the Bay of Concepcion was upraised two or three feet... At the island of S. Maria (about thirty miles distant) the elevation was greater; on one part, Captain Fitz Roy founds beds of putrid mussel-shells still adhering to the rocks, ten feet above high-water mark... The elevation of this province is particularly interesting, from its having been the theatre of several other violent earthquakes, and from the vast
numbers of sea-shells scattered over the land, up to a height of certainly 600, and I believe, of 1000 feet... it is hardly possible to doubt that this great elevation has been effected by successive small uprisings, such as that which accompanied or caused the earthquake of this year, and likewise by an insensibly slow rise, which is certainly in progress on some parts of this coast...

A bad earthquake at once destroys the oldest associations: the world, the very emblem of all that is solid, has moved beneath our feet like a crust over a fluid...

— Charles Darwin. 1835. Extracts from Letters Addressed to Professor Henslow by C. Darwin Esq. Read at a Meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society on the 16th of November 1835. Cambridge: Cambridge Philosophical Society. p. 21.

— Charles Darwin. 1845. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. 2d ed. London: John Murray. p. 302-310.

Andy Jackson, narrator
Jonathan Riemer, tenor

SMALL GROUP:
Emily Morris, Susan Dixon, Emma Lever, James Tecuatl-Lee, Jaime Pesantes, Nathan Patrick

TEXT:

But here, particularly in the Edwards, we have a resource that, with good management, is renewable. It is life sustaining. It is in constant motion, it is not static. It is one of the most transmissive aquifers that we know.
— Oral arguments from Edwards Aquifer Authority v. Day (2012). Supreme Court of Texas, Case No. 08-0964.

The question argued before us has been in substance this: whether the right to the enjoyment of an underground spring, or of a well supplied by such underground spring, is governed by the same rule of law as that which applies to, and regulates, a watercourse flowing on the surface.
The rule of law which governs the enjoyment of a stream flowing in its natural course over the surface of land belonging to different proprietors is well established...
— Acton v. Blundell (1843). 152 E.R. 1223.

he who has a several piscary in a water shall have an action on the case against him who erects a dyehouse, ac fimos faeditates, et alia sordida extra domum praedictam decurrentia in piscariam praedictam decurrere fecit… sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas…
— William Aldred’s case (1610). 77 E.R. 816.

But in the case of a well sunk by a proprietor in his own land, the water which feeds it from a neighbouring soil does not flow openly in the sight of the neighbouring proprietor, but through the hidden veins of the earth beneath its surface; no man can tell what changes these underground sources have undergone in the progress of time…
— Acton v. Blundell (1843). 152 E.R. 1223.

the law recognizes no correlative rights in respect to underground waters percolating, oozing or
filtrating through the earth; and this mainly from considerations of public policy. 1. Because the existence, origin, movement and course of such waters, and the causes which govern and direct their movements, are so secret, occult and concealed, that an attempt to administer any set of
legal rules in respect to them would be involved in hopeless uncertaintys and would be, therefore, practically impossible
— Frazier v. Brown (1861). 12 Ohio St. (N.S.) 294

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