John Luther Adams’ Become Ocean, premiered in 2013 by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, incorporates the composer’s impressions of climate change and the implications of sea level rise. In describing his compositional process, he remarks that “life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean” (source). This is an auditory immersion into apocalypse, a musical mapping of the heaviness, slowness, and sureness of glacial transformation—incessant arpeggiations and sweeping melodic fragments weave together an ocean of sound, rising together and ultimately falling together into a severe silence of drowned-ness.