I’m happy to announce the start of a new 2-year project I’m co-directing with Wilfrido Terrazas, a creative flutist-improviser and professor at UCSD. Titled Cauces Sónicos: Creative Music Making Across the Borderlands, our project has several layers that integrate artistic, educational and community engagement work, and “will leverage collaborative musical experimentation to explore a kaleidoscopic, expansive notion of the US-México borderlands, engaging communities and deepening institutional partnerships both directly on the border and as far south and north as Ensenada, Baja California and Orange County.” We’re especially grateful to have received a Latino Studies Research Project award from the University of California Alianza MX Initiative, that will enable us to support travel costs for undergraduate students, artistic research fees for graduate students and professional collaborators, and other program costs.
I’ll be sharing more about our activities as it evolves over the coming months. I’m especially thrilled that this project will give me a chance to learn from and collaborate more with Wilfrido and many other wonderful collaborators, including doctoral students and professional artists in the borderlands region, while also helping us build institutional partnerships across UCI, UCSD, UABC in Ensenada, and the UCSD Community Stations along the border. For more details, you can read this news feature from the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at UCI.
[Feature image by Esther Gámez, one of the artistic collaborators on the project]