Alex Chávez, Artist and Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame
This special event is offered in partnership with the C-U Folk and Roots Festival, the Spurlock Museum, the Department of Anthropology, and the Department of Latina and Latino Studies.
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Sonorous Present: Songs of Border Crossings, Sunrises, and Mournings-An evening of music and storytelling, is an immersive poetic and musical passage, Alex E. Chávez’s critically-acclaimed album Sonorous Present extends sonic meditations on loss, migration, and memory across America’s borderlands as physical place and liminal space.
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What began as an experimental and improvised performance—inspired by the music and poetics of Chávez’s multi-award-winning book Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño (Duke 2017)—was subsequently reimagined as a studio album in collaboration with Grammy Award-winning producer Quetzal Flores featuring luminaries from the worlds of traditional Mexican son, poetry, and jazz.
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This presentation is an intimate and immersive dive into select compositions featured on Sonorous Present and which will highlight both personal stories and research behind the compositions, in addition to discussion about the production process.
For more information about Professor Alex Chávez and full details about the event go to Spurlock Museum of World Cultures – Sonorous Present.
Photo Credit- Trey Legit