{"id":2605,"date":"2020-04-06T17:04:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T21:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allida.com\/wp\/?page_id=2605"},"modified":"2023-03-31T08:03:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T12:03:40","slug":"songs-to-urban-ecology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/allida.com\/wp\/?page_id=2605","title":{"rendered":"Songs to Urban Ecology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Songs of Urban Ecology is a socially engaged and multi-disciplinary body of work. The songs include celebrations of places that I have lived and document my relationship to those places with images and sounds that highlight the invisible and interconnected contrast between what is natural, and what is human. In Jamaicaway Matins, an animated process drawing of seasonal change is accompanied by urban and natural sounds. Inspired by Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara\u2019s\u00a0Cantus Arcitcus<\/em>, I created an improvised flute piece inspired by one morning when I paused to listen to the joyful sounds of birds returning to Boston in the spring of 2020. Although there were fewer cars to drown out their music, still they are interrupted by sirens as an ambulance rushed someone to the nearby hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This body of work began before I knew what it was, as an embodied practice, wandering along the Huron River in the place where I was born, documenting small changes in the liminal space between human and natural environments that exist in every city and town. I collected photos and sounds near a highway overpass that creates a forgotten but sacred space, with the echoes of traffic sounding like an organ, and the reflection of light on the water, highlighting the beauty of the steel bridge\u2019s tracery: the Cathedral of M-14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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