Music in our Natural World
Presented in partnership with the La Jolla Historical Society, the MoMM will welcome composer, performer, and instrument-builder Cheryl E. Leonard for an evening of music that explores our natural world. Through musical soundscapes, Cheryl investigates how climate change is transforming environments and ecosystems in the remote polar regions and here at home in California. Leonard’s compositions combine sounds from natural-object instruments with field recordings of natural soundscapes. On stage she plays an array of amplified stones, wood, water, sand, seaweed, shells, feathers, and bones. Some objects are played “as is.” With others, Leonard has created one-of-a-kind musical sculptures. The unique voices of these unconventional instruments intertwine with carefully edited field recordings of oceans, streams, lakes, glaciers, storms, and wildlife.