SONOROUS PRESENT: Songs of Border Crossings, Sunrises, and Mournings
Sounds of LA
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Harold M. Williams Auditorium
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This performance is held on Saturday, March 16 at 6:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 17 at 3:00 p.m. Tickets are available for both days through the Get Tickets button above.
Sounds of LA 2024 launches with an exclusive performance of immersive, poetic music from Alex E. Chávez’s forthcoming album SONOROUS PRESENT. What began as an experimental, collaborative, and improvised performance in Chicago—inspired by the music and poetics of Chávez’s award-winning book Sounds of Crossing—has been subsequently reimagined as a studio album in collaboration with Grammy Award-winning producer Quetzal Flores. SONOROUS PRESENT offers a never-before-heard blend of Mexican and Latin American folk elements with progressive jazz, poetry, dance, field recordings, and ethnographic songwriting that crosses the sunburst surrealism of America's musical and cultural borderlands.
Presented in collaboration with the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
About the Artist
Over the span of his career, Alex E. Chávez has consistently crossed the boundary between performer and researcher in the realms of academic and publicly engaged work as a scholar, artist, and producer. He has recorded and toured with his own music projects, composed documentary scores for Emmy-winning films, and collaborated with acclaimed artists—including Grammy winners Quetzal. A Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the Ford Foundation, he is the author of the award-winning book Sounds of Crossing (Duke, 2017) and currently serves as the Nancy O’Neill Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame.