Free Admission
Join us in the historic Adobe Hay Barn at Empire Ranch for a multidisciplinary concert experience exploring the sounds of our watershed.
Situated within the spectacular landscape of Las Cienegas National Conservation Area, this unique event kicks off the Watershed Soundscape project, supported by the 2024-2025 AIR Annual Resilience Theme Award.
Featuring:
- World premiere of a new multimedia piece inspired by the soundscape of Las Cienegas, by composer Carolina Heredia and visual artist Heather Bird Harris
- Traditional O’odham Singing
- Performances by …
- Philip Alejo, bass
- Cassandra Bendickson, bassoon
- Elena Chernova-Davis, violin
- Sara Fraker, oboe
- Jackie Glazier, clarinet
- Ivan Ugorich, viola
- Readings by Alison Hawthorne Deming and Gretchen Henderson
- Music by Sergei Prokofiev, Yuanyuan (Kay) He, and Lachlan Skipworth
Plan Your Visit
“Choose your own adventure” to experience more of the Las Cienegas landscape:
- Take the Cienega Watershed Tour –– a self-guided, GPS-activated driving audio tour
- Register for Cienega Watershed Partnership’s Connecting with the Land event
- Visit Sonoita-Elgin wine country
music + art + landscape | multidisciplinary concert series
Nov. 9, 2024, 3p | Watershed Soundscape | Las Cienegas National Conservation Area | Sonoita
Nov. 21, 2024, 5-7p | Watershed Management Group Living Lab | Tucson
Nov. 22, 2024, 5-7p | Watershed Management Group Living Lab | Tucson
Nov. 23, 2024, 5-7p | Watershed Management Group Living Lab | Tucson
Jan. 25, 2025, 6p | Patagonia Opera House | Patagonia
artist residency
Nov. 12, 2024, 2-3p | Bird Harris, Artist Talk | School of Art
Nov. 14, 2024, 2-4p | Bird Harris, Artist Workshop | School of Art
Building Community Through Music, Art, and Watershed Science
The project, Building Hydro-Local Community Through Music, Art, and Watershed Science, is led by School of Music faculty, including principal investigator Sara Fraker, associate professor, along with co-investigators Yuanyuan (Kay) He, a composer and assistant professor, Jackie Glazier, clarinetist and associate professor; plus, Carissa DiCindio, School of Art associate professor and Neha Gupta, an assistant research professor within AIR and the Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences.
The arts-science integration began one evening when Glazier approached Fraker, who had recently collaborated with the Arizona Laboratory of Tree Ring Research to compose a piece inspired by the growth patterns of trees. Glazier said: “our next project needs to be water.”
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