YOU ARE HERE (VOICES Healdsburg Summer 2021) Short Plays on Healdsburg History

A walking tour of light art created for the winter season in downtown Healdsburg.

Exercise caution along the active ranch roads. Headphones may limit your ability to be aware of traffic. Welcome to our milelong exploration of the regenerative agricultural practices that define the quality of wine coming from Medlock Ames at Bell Mountain Ranch, and the soundscape which illuminates our biodiversity.

Please enjoy my album "Slept In" while immersing yourself in the beauty of the bay area's Tilden park.

Welcome to the Garden! This walk through the Allen Ginsberg Community Poetry Garden is a sound scape of poems produced in collaboration with local artists and community members, Left Margin Lit, the University of California Berkeley's African American Studies Department, and the Berkeley Arts Magnet School at Whittier, with support from the UC Berkeley Chancellor's Partnership Fund. We invite you to join us, take a wander around, and find a place in this garden and in these poems.

Sutro Baths is one of San Francisco's historic destinations. Everyday wedding photos are taken and people enjoy the natural beauty and ruins of the world's once largest natatorium, which was created by Adolph Sutro. When I began to look up this site, I found that the history usually started with Adolph Sutro, a white millionaire who once owned a twelfth of San Francisco. However, we first must acknowledge that the land has been stewarded by the Ramaytush Ohlone people. We also must acknowledge that an historic moment occurred. A black man named John Harris sued Adolph Sutro in 1897 for being denied entry into the baths. John Harris won, with the help of the African American Assembly Council and underneath the Dibble Civil Rights Act, and this set the precedent for the civil rights bill many years later. I use the alchemy of sound and memory to shift the soundscape of this occupied land, collapsing the barriers between past and present to unveil the untold stories the shores have witnessed. As a Black, queer womxn standing on the symbols of wealth and occupation, I want to honor those who came before, those who have fallen through the cracks of white lens of history, and celebrate the resiliency of my people.

A new track from the electronic artist Boron, presented in the form of a site-specific sound walk. http://boron.bandcamp.com

Wavy Diary is a sonic piece inspired by the man made Spreckels lake and the San Francisco Model Yacht Club that invites the listener to hear the interplay between music and the sounds of a yacht. Spreckels lake is a reminder of the thin line between nature and civilization that built San Francisco.The walk, a part of the larger Origins and Transformation is approximately 5-10 minutes and composed by composer/artist/musician Dario Slavazza.

“The Golden Gate Park installation of Giovanna Iorio’s Voice of Trees was curated by Michael Rothenberg and Youssef Alaoui. Voices include: Missy Church Rohan Da Costa Mk Chavez Paul Corman Roberts Youssef Alaoui KR Morrison Tureeda Mikell Colleen McKee Maw Shein Win Michael Warr Chun Yu Richard Loranger Sharon Coleman Jack Foley Jennifer Hasegawa Evan Karp Michael Rothenberg Terri Carrion Giovanna Iorio Kim Shuck Alexandra Naughton

Origins and Transformations is a listening day's journey beginning in the remnants of old growth oak woodlands, winding through what was the largest dune system on the west coast now human transformed into forests, gardens and playgrounds and arriving at the wide Pacific Ocean. Through 12 sections, the sojourner will be guided deeper into live close listening to the ever changing sounds of the wind, birdsong, human laughter and languages, music live and recorded, whirl of bicycles and hum of traffic. Sounds, sights and thoughts intertwine to inspire an expansive sense of time and the connectivity of people, animals, landscape and elements. The route is around 6-7 miles long but each section can be done individually or combined in smaller sections. 1. Origin oak woodland- Ohlone Land, grove left by the landscape designers, regenerated from the trees cut down by refugees from the 1906 earthquake. What sounds do you hear? Which are mechanical, human, animal, plant, weather? What are your sonic origins? 2. Playgrounds- Conservatory of Flowers, Skatepark, 10th street playground, tunnel to music concourse, Ferris wheel, fountains, museums. What mix of sounds do you hear? What does play mean to you? 3. Walled Gardens, gateways and thresholds/liminal spaces - path goes past Japanese tea garden, botanical garden, Shakespeare Garden, the National AIDS Memorial. What sounds do you hear through the walls, fences and hedges? What and who are enclosed and what and who are kept out? 4. Heroes & Memorials- Redwood Grove – What sounds are caused by you as you walk through the grove? Who are your heroes? 5. Hybrids - Rose Garden - What are the impacts of pollination, evolution, genetic engineering? How were you named? Can you hear the sounds of insects? 6. History- Monterey pines and cypress 100 Life spans ending, 13 trees of the colonies, Pioneer mother, log cabin, coyote den, conflicting history: Spanish, Mexican history, Ohlone. Who tells history? What stories are in your head? How do they compare to what has been created in front of you? 7. Engineering land transformation of sand dunes to forests and gardens - Originally Water was pumped from the ground by the wind mills at ocean beach and pumped here. The pond at the top of Strawberry Hill watered the eastern end of the park and Stowe Lake the western half to the sea using gravity alone. What sound do hear from the man-made water features? 8. Human connections - Portals of the Past, Speedway meadow, polo grounds, Spreckels Lake - What sounds do human make? Do they come from their bodies, instruments, electronic devices? 9. Animals Wild and Domestic 1- Bison, red tail hawks, ravens, parrots, dog park – What sounds do you hear that come from animals? 10. Animals Wild and Domestic 2- Angler's lodge and casting pools, coyotes & horse stables – What sounds do you here that come from animals? 11. Harnessing the elements - Murphy windmill & Dutch windmill - Air, Water & Earth. How do the landscape and architecture affect the sound of the air and sea? 12. Origins Pacific Ocean – dunes, beach, waves. The origin of life comes from the sea and we carry sea in our own bodies - How do the sounds of wind and water affect other sounds?