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Reflections

Reflections

Glendale Central Park, 201 E Colorado St, Glendale, California 91205, United States
Part walking poetry experience, part meditative memorial, and part experimental sound art installation, Reflections is a response to this moment, designed to give voice to a diversity of people living through the current crisis and to make space in the public square for reflection on our shared experience of living through a pandemic. Dozens of participants from across LA County and other quarantined regions of the world were interviewed as part of this project. Participants were asked: What have you learned about yourself from living through this time? Has this experience changed you? What is one memory from this time that you think will stick with you forever? What do you hope the world learns from this experience? The 7 compositions included in this installation are comprised of clips from these interviews arranged thematically and collaged with the sounds of places, events, and materials that participants invoked during their reflections. The themes, which emerged organically in response to open-ended questions, include: scarcity and abundance; gratitude and inequity; inwardness and action; vulnerability, humility, and connection; and grief, resilience, and radical joy Total runtime: 70 minutes, with 7 unique tracks, each running approximately 10 minutes. www.glendalereflections.com This installation is generously sponsored by the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission, through funding from the Urban Art Program, and support from Glendale Library, Arts & Culture and Glendale Community Services and Parks.
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Deserts Oceans Deserts (2025) "on" MOCA in LA, California_ by Amigo

Deserts Oceans Deserts (2025) "on" MOCA in LA, California_ by Amigo

Los Angeles
Deserts Oceans Deserts (2025). An environmental installation/sonic exploration of wet and dry epochs “on“ the “place” where MOCA is currently sited in Los Angeles, California. Cristian Amigo: Composer, designer, and sound artist. Goldie: Visuals The Project: In California, the current moment is one of extreme dryness, and the cultural discussion around climate change is that of dryness, increasing heat, and the eventual return of the Southern California space that MOCA resides on to an empty (in human terms) desert. The recent 2025 Palisades and Eaton wildfires are the latest manifestation of this current dry epoch. Beginning 480 million years ago, the geologic area where MOCA currently sits, plus much of present day California, Nevada, and New Mexico, has been immersed six times under six different oceans (Sauk, Tippecanoe, Kaskaskia, Absaroka, Zuñi, and Tejas cratonic sequences), each ocean (wet) washing over the land and then receding again eventually leaving dry land behind (in a continuum between wet dry wet...); these oceans and, eventually deserts, lasted hundreds of millions of years. The relationship between water, environment, and biological life has a history and record in geologic sequences. The Sauk, whose sediments can be found at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, is the first of these oceans and the fossils from its deposits are the first geologic register of life on earth. The geo-located installation: My sound compositions are placed in the womb, the portal, and entrance to MOCA that both opens (entrance) and closes (exits) the formal museum space. Physically, it resembles a cave and gives a heightened impression of immersion that works with my compositions to immerse the listener in sound and contemplation. It also serves as shade during part of the day. And this alternation between sun and shade works as a physical metaphor for the binary of wet/dry. it is an immersive threshold. My ecologically-based theme encourages people to think about the space where MOCA currently resides, not as an exclusively dry space in urban Downtown Los Angeles, but one that has, in geologic time, moved between extreme wet and dry environments. It encourages thinking beyond human time. In the present moment (2025), human-induced climate change increasingly threatens the ecological life of the earth, including human life. This is a science. MOCA is not an official sponsor of this piece, but we would be happy to have their, or your, sponsorship and commission support to make 9 more soundscape pieces that would bring the total to 12 different soundscapes, each one representative of the 6 dry and wet cratonic sequences experienced on the physical geography of what we now know as California. Metaphors for meditation on the experience: Impermanence Wet and dry Flood and famine Absence and abundance Positive and negative Emptiness and form Life and death The present and future What can we do? Thinking: DRY\_anthropocene\_shelter, tools, work.
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