Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Polar Soundscapes Concert May 11


Cheryl E. Leonard will be performing a set of polar music live next week at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, California. Glugge, an Adfreeze Project piece about the the Arctic Ocean with video by Oona Stern and music by Cheryl Leonard will be one of the works featured in this concert. 

The San Francisco Chronicle published a very nice preview article about the show last week. You can read it here.


WEDNESDAY MAY 11, 2016
7:30pm, $15 general, $12 students and teachers, $5 kids 12 and under
Advance tickets available here

David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704

POLAR SOUNDSCAPES
In this closing event for the Vanishing Ice exhibition, Other Minds and the Brower Center present composer, performer, and instrument-builder Cheryl E. Leonard, who will create a concert using Arctic and Antarctic field recordings and natural-object instruments including penguin bones, dried seaweed, ice, and seashells. Leonard, with Phillip Greenlief, will perform works about polar environments and climate change including Meltwater, a delicate and innovative composition produced with icicles. Several pieces with videos by visual artists Oona Stern and Genevieve Swifte will also be performed. A Q&A will follow the concert.

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