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50@50 – Sedona, AZ

  |   Blog, Exploring

One of the traps I fear falling into, writing this blog, is redundancy. The lure of particular landscapes with their migration and settlement histories tend to have parallels, particularly during the middle to late 19th century. Yet, the individual stories and resulting culture of each...

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Composing in the Wilderness

  |   Blog, Music

Title: Composing in the Wilderness Location: Denali National Park / Fairbanks Alaska Link out: Click here Description: For centuries, composers have looked to nature for inspiration. With adventurer-composer Stephen Lias and National Park Service soundscape scientist Davyd Betchkal, I'll spend four days exploring the stunning beauty of Denali’s...

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Artist in Residence

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Title: Artist in Residence Location: Homestead National Monument Link out: Click here Description: As a composer in residence I will interpret the park’s many cultural and natural resources through sound, focusing on the natural environment, westward expansion and the impact of social change. Start Date: 2012-05-07 End Date: 2012-05-26...

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50@50 – Birmingham Alabama

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On my journey through the south, I stopped for a few days in Alabama -  the epicenter of Civil Rights -  in an effort to understand its history, progress and current culture. One thing I’ve learned in doing these blogs is that a person living...

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50@50 – Asheville, NC

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Asheville North Carolina lies only 85 miles northeast of the Folk Pottery Museum in Sautee, Georgia, so I detoured for a couple of days to further explore if the landscape, shaped the culture of Southeastern Appalachians similarly or differently than the mountains of West Virginia...

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50@50 – Northeastern Georgia

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“Georgia” conjures up a diverse array of images: the languid coast, southern charm, the Civil War, a bustling city with a vibrant arts scene, and the Appalachians.  Rare are the places whose cultural threads are unbroken and retied by history’s revisionists. Georgia’s culture seems, in...

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