Created by Gabriel Araújo & Dylan McLaughlin. Supported by the UT Austin Butler School of Music Rainwater Innovation Grant.
Refractions of What We Thought Were Birds is a collaborative multimedia performance synthesizing the patterns, textures, and cosmologies of lost sounds, resurfaced memories and imagined birds. It’s a series of meditations on centering stories of displacement, and the threatened loss of ancestral practices. Working alongside the Arte e Educação do Campo program at Universidade Federal do Norte do Tocantins, the piece was composed in response to several months of facilitated workshops with Apinajé communities in Brazil, addressing a nearly lost practice of instrument building.
FRIDAY, 02 June 2023 at 8pm
Crashbox
5305 Bolm Rd Unit 12, Austin TX 78721