✨ Are the sounds of Midtown crows, leaf blowers, or Thursday night revelers musical—or a nuisance?
Perhaps our definition of music could use some expansion.
Join Tracy Monaghan, musicologist and lecturer at UC Davis, for an interactive exploration of how experimental composers John Cage and Pauline Oliveros challenged listeners to rethink where music begins and ends.
For Cage and Oliveros, music wasn't simply something to perform—it was a way of paying attention. Drawing on musicological scholarship and Oliveros's practice of "Deep Listening," Tracy will guide us through new ways of hearing…