[Mus-undergrad-info] Bayz Tomorrow, 4/23: Carolyn Chen, “Listening in Motion”

[Amy Skjerseth]

*2024–2025 Florence Bayz Music Series*
*"Listening in Motion"*
*Carolyn Chen, Composer*
April 23rd, 12–12:50pm, ARTS 157
*miércoles de música* (bring your own lunch/buy lunch at The Barn) to
follow at 1pm
How do we hear differently while moving instead of sitting still? I share a
few recent pieces that explore listening and music-making while in motion. *The
Language of Birds* is a site-specific installation and listening tour in
Santa Cruz's Evergreen Cemetery inspired by the mythology of birdsong and
perception-altering dragon's blood. *How to Fall Apart* is a quintet for
dancers and string players discussing cosmic, natural, and human processes
of disintegration, aging, and falling apart. *How to be a Bat* is a series
of audience participation experiments practicing skills of listening at
location, contextualizing a string quartet responding to a moving speaker.

Carolyn has been invited to Bayz by Victoria Romano, who writes:

> I've conscripted one of my idols to speak at our W at N series this
> week, 4/23...Carolyn Chen! <https://walkingmango.wordpress.com/> Not only
> is she an accomplished and innovative composer, but an inspiring orator as
> well. I've been talking about bringing her to campus for *years*, and now
> it's finally happening! I unfortunately won't be there, but it would mean
> the world to me if you could attend the talk and show her some support in
> my stead. I would recommend her presentation to anyone. There's so many
> good nuggets of wisdom in her practice."


Spread the word to your students and friends; Bayz series events are free
and open to the public. For more information about this event, follow this
link: https://events.ucr.edu/event/Carolyn-Chen.

After the event, we'll head to the Barn at 1pm for miércoles de música
(organized by Dr. Liz Przybylski; I'll lead us all there tomorrow), which
are informal drop-in lunches known as "Music Mondays" in the fall quarter.
Feel free to bring your lunch or you can buy lunch at the Barn.

See you tomorrow,
Amy
*Dr. Amy Skjerseth* (*she/her*)
Assistant Professor of Popular Music
University of California, Riverside

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