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Faculty, graduate and undergraduate students from the department of music will participate in a living sound installation, the Arboretum Sound Lab, as part of the National Gathering of Imagining America, titled "Tides of Transition: Restoring Collective Spirit in Troubled Times." It will happen in the Arboretum section close to the Wyatt Deck and on the South side of Putah Creek, towards the Gorman Museum of Native American Art. The Arboretum Sound Lab is a co-creative project that will transform the Arboretum into an experimental ecosystem based on the interplay between human and more-than-human participants — musicians, plants, birds, wind, water, and other elements of the landscape. The project is conceived by music philosopher and composer Karlton Hester (Professor of Music at UC Santa Cruz) in collaboration with Pierpaolo Polzonetti (Professor of Music at UC Davis).
Musicians participating in the project: Maleelah Acker (flute), Renato Barsuglia (electric guitar), Juan Diego Díaz (berimbau), Paul Engle (electric guitar), Juan Manuel Jaramillo Lleras (live electronics, percussion), Karlton Hester (soprano saxophone, flute, piccolo), Charlie Hankin (violin), Ariana Karp (cello), Beth Levy (violin), Joseph Martin (keyboard), Colin Minigan (bass), Samuel Nelson (trumpet, spoons), Portia Njoku (tuba, sousaphone), Kira O’Grady (oboe), Pierpaolo Polzonetti (tenor saxophone, quena, clarinet), Damien Stoffel (clarinet, Afro-Cuban percussion), Vodzi Torgboh (Kpetsi: Ewe drum), and Aleyna Wilgermein (trombone).