Venue: Adobe Hay Barn at Empire Ranch
Start Time: 3:00pm
Tickets:

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 …
  • 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:

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.”

Read the full story here.

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