At National Sawdust, *We Don’t Need the Sea To Drown* is presented as a live classical set shaped by voice and electronics, with Coco Karol and Sxip Shirey among the featured performers. The title points to peril without spectacle, framing drowning as something that can happen in airless rooms and crowded cities as much as in water. In a venue known for treating new music as civic record, the piece reads like a report on contemporary vulnerability. Its restraint becomes the critical point: it refuses easy catharsis.