Jamaicaway Matins: A Song to Urban Ecology

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For FossilFOOLs, an arts festival in Ann Arbor, Michigan, originally meant to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, I created a work of arts-based research about how city-dwellers access nature combining digital animation and found sounds to highlight the ways that nature is affected by and yet still permeates urban areas. Inspired by Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara, I combined a recording of the sounds in my backyard– both human and natural– with instrumental and vocal tracks to create a re-mix of narrative sounds. Rautavaara is known for his symphony to biodiversity, Cantus Arctics, in which he composed a rich multi-layered work that is built around recordings he made of birds in arctic region of Finland.

As the project shifted in the face of the COVID 19 Crisis, it changed shape because the festival became virtual, and there are two other videos about the participatory hybrid project:

More information here: allida.com/wp/?p=2582

To participate in the art festival which will have live events 4/3/2020 at 8pm EDT:
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