(2017-2019)
Music composition
Performed amongst the collapsed ruins of the failed Sutro Baths in San Francisco’s Lands End, but can be performed by any ruins near a large body of water.
Instruments include quarter-tone guitar, bathroom sink, floating cello, narrator, dowsing rods, bird calls, amplified tile, stirred broken mirrors, amplified fishing rod, homemade feedback ukulele, oxygen tank, student guitarists, and 13+ percussionists. Not a work to bring awareness, but a proposition for imagining when we are already gone.
Movement I. Estuary
Movement II. Tributary
Movement III. Delta (featuring guitarists Theo Moss, Izzy Spanswick, Nathan Marks, and Marcus D’Avignon)
Movement IV: Channel
Movement V: Distributary (featuring percussionists Willie Winant, Jack Van Geem, David Lechuga, Pétur Eggertsson, Lula Asplund, Samuel Regan, Philip Agbayani, Colton Ransom, Elizabeth Hall, Doug Chin, Ayden Bradley, Jimmy Chan, and Caleb Smit)
Movement VI: Sound
Composer: Raven Chacon
The Living Earth Show: Travis Andrews (guitars), Andy Meyerson (percussion)
Narrator and Text: Ashley Smiley
Costumes and Regalia: Rashad Pridgen
Production Manager: Cath Brittan @ Sutro Baths/lands End Lookout
