de/composition: Native Trees, Sonic Roots

This multimedia exploration will encompass an evening of experimental ambient music and video projections inspired by the local watershed.

The preeminent Philadelphia DJ, Composer, Producer, Sound Designer and Music Experimentalist June Lopez will perform de/compostion: Native Trees, Sonic Roots, a set of genre-defying music and experimental soundscapes based on the inspiration of found sounds in Tookany/Tacony-Frankford (TTF) Watershed and Tacony Creek Park.

de/compostion: Native Trees, Sonic Roots will be inspired by the field recordings and audio research June is engaged with, including the trees and other elements from the watershed. Natural processes, such as composting, are also sources for sound.

June will be in collaboration with the video projection team of Samara Talkin and Neil Cippon. They will immerse the venue space in projections of collected images and footage of the watershed and nature on the interior of Bennett Compost in synchronization with the music and sound.

(WARNING: Intense lighting will be used during this show. It will not be safe for those with epilepsy and other conditions with sensitivity to light.)

Special guest narrator and our “in-house science dramaturg”, Dr. Jame McCray will illuminate audiences with narratives from the watershed.

Written and recorded reflections by local residents on their relationship with trees and nature will also be interwoven into the soundscape.

This unique site specific event will be hosted at Bennett Compost, adjacent to Tacony Creek Park.

This event is supported by a grant from TreePhilly, a Philadelphia Parks & Recreation Program; PHMC, and William Penn Foundation.

TreePhilly is a program of Philadelphia Parks & Recreation and Fairmount Park Conservancy, sponsored by TD Bank. We help Philadelphia residents plant and care for trees.

Additional support provided by our friends at Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership.