Niloufar Nourbakhsh

She's written many books, including Turning to Stone and Timefulness, How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World.

My second guest is Niloufar Nourbakhsh, who is a composer.

She is from Iran, and she reflects a wide variety of influences in her work.

And we're going to be discussing Niloufar's composition, Deep Time, which was inspired by her reading of

So part of what Nilou's piece does is invite us into this extraordinarily expansive sense of time, and you're about to actually feel what that's about.

So I'm going to stop.

And I hope that you enjoy Deep Time by Niloufar Nourbakhsh.

I'd like to start with Marcia.