Event
de/composition 1.2: Native Trees, Sonic Roots
October 3 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
de/composition is an immersive multimedia performance that brings together music, movement, and captivating visuals to explore the natural world of Olney and Tacony Creek Park. The performance spotlights the plants, animals, water, trees, and other living things that share the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed with us.
Through distinct ambient sonic improvisation and a lush, moving visual backdrop grounded in ecological stories, it’s a project that aims to align our vibrations with those of the trees, water, birds and other wildlife in our midst. de/composition invites audiences to slow down, listen, and experience the world around them in a new way.
Philadelphia DJ, producer, sound designer, and music experimentalist June Lopez leads de/composition as composer, performer, and conductor. The performance also features moving visuals by collaborating video artists Samara Talkin and Neil Cippon. Narration and movement by Dr. Jamé McCray expounds on these natural elements, weaving in stories of our human connection to them.
This performance will be unique, with new sounds, visuals, and performers becoming part of the experience. We welcome Latin folk percussionists – Christian Noguera, Andrés Cisneros and Esteban “El Tongo” Hernández – to the music ensemble for the October 3rd performance!
de/composition is supported by a Tree Forward grant from TreePhilly, a Philadelphia Parks & Recreation Program; PHMC, and William Penn Foundation.
(WARNING: Intense lighting will be used during this show. It will not be safe for those with epilepsy and other conditions with sensitivity to light.)