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Oboe/English horn, clarinet in Bb, bassoon, and video art (optional).
Approx. 9 minutes.
Resonancia Natural, a collaboration with visual artist Heather Bird Harris, is inspired by the history and the sounds of the Santa Cruz River watershed, and by its endangerment after the loss of perennial desert flows that followed colonial settlement. Its three parts trace past, present, and future.
The video art follows locally gathered earth pigments as they move through water. The past is made with grassland soil, clay from Madera Canyon, and plants that bloom on very little water — prickly pear, creosote, desert willow. The present is water retreating from the arroyo at Las Cienegas and the dry bed of the Sutherland Wash. The future is decomposing soil from the base of a cottonwood at Empire Ranch, burned in the 2017 Sawmill Fire — soil where life regenerates from death. The electronic track draws on field recordings by ecologist and biogeographer Luc Barbaro, along with rhythm and texture extracted from those recordings and mapped onto software instruments.
Commissioned by Sara Fraker, Jackie Glazier, and Marissa Olegario with support from the Arizona Institute for Resilience at the University of Arizona. Part of a larger multidisciplinary project drawing on research conducted in partnership among artists, scientists, and Indigenous communities to create a sustainable model for environmental stewardship.
This download includes: Digital score (PDF): Resonancia Natural - Full Score (transposed).pdf
For access to the video art, contact the artist directly. Contact information will be available with your download.
Oboe/English horn, clarinet in Bb, bassoon, and video art (optional).
Approx. 9 minutes.
Resonancia Natural, a collaboration with visual artist Heather Bird Harris, is inspired by the history and the sounds of the Santa Cruz River watershed, and by its endangerment after the loss of perennial desert flows that followed colonial settlement. Its three parts trace past, present, and future.
The video art follows locally gathered earth pigments as they move through water. The past is made with grassland soil, clay from Madera Canyon, and plants that bloom on very little water — prickly pear, creosote, desert willow. The present is water retreating from the arroyo at Las Cienegas and the dry bed of the Sutherland Wash. The future is decomposing soil from the base of a cottonwood at Empire Ranch, burned in the 2017 Sawmill Fire — soil where life regenerates from death. The electronic track draws on field recordings by ecologist and biogeographer Luc Barbaro, along with rhythm and texture extracted from those recordings and mapped onto software instruments.
Commissioned by Sara Fraker, Jackie Glazier, and Marissa Olegario with support from the Arizona Institute for Resilience at the University of Arizona. Part of a larger multidisciplinary project drawing on research conducted in partnership among artists, scientists, and Indigenous communities to create a sustainable model for environmental stewardship.
This download includes: Digital score (PDF): Resonancia Natural - Full Score (transposed).pdf
For access to the video art, contact the artist directly. Contact information will be available with your download.