Springfest: Immersion
Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in collaboration with the UC San Diego Department of Music present their fourth annual Immersion, an evening submerged in drifting love songs, tiny aquatic surprises, and experimental music that swims with the fishes. Audience members can stroll through the exhibits and encounter a wide variety of performances by music graduate students side by side with the sea life. Hear the world premier of a new chamber jazz project out on the Tide-Pool Plaza and a set of plaintive love songs for soprano and ensemble in front of the mesmerizing Kelp Forest. Enjoy sets of live electronic music on glitchy vinyl in the Hall of Fishes and the bass-piano duo who improvises to the movements of the sharks in the Smargon Courtyard. Discover little sea-secrets throughout the aquarium in unannounced micro-performances, and children can build their own oceanic instruments to use in a kid's-only pop-up orchestra performance in the Galleria.