The Watershed Soundscape project is building Hydro-Local community through music, art, and watershed science. We're celebrating our desert waters through a year-long series of multidisciplinary concerts and workshops, and arts activities. A collaboration between the UA School of Music, WMG and other community organizations, this year-long initiative explores themes of stewardship, restoration, and soundscape in the Santa Cruz River Watershed. It's made possible by generous support from the UA's Arizona Institute for Resilience.
Watershed Management Group is excited to be part of this project and have a musical piece (Sonoran Rivers: a Celebration of Desert Water) created based on data collected through our River Run Network's Community Science Flow365 Monitoring Program.
Sonoran Rivers is a new musical composition incorporating creek flow data from WMG's Flow365 monitoring program. Featuring music by UA composer Yuanyuan Kay He and text by Alison Hawthorne Deming, the piece will be performed this spring by 20 ensembles throughout the watershed, including high school bands, university ensembles, and community orchestras. The Tucson Symphony Orchestra will give marquee performances for over 10,000 students at their Young People's Concerts in May.
