2024 Program Guide | Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music

CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC 55 CREATIVE COAST: PROGRAM NOTES III. Aquarum (Water)  IV. Viscera (Matter)  V. Celestis (Heavens)  This work is inspired by light artist James Turrell’s Sky Space installations and subtle movements of light and color that take place at the time of greatest change in light, sunset, and sunrise. Sonically and aesthetically, an immersive score of sound design juxtaposes the symphonic palette and the amplified small sounds of nature, transformed objects, and voice to feature the ultimate telescoping of sound—from the tiniest of sound worlds to the largest oceans of sound. This work is an amalgam of my work as a spatial audio surround-sound artist, a symphonic composer, and the narrative solo multimedia composer/ performer that I explore in my duo work with live visualist Joshue Ott. A parhelion is an optical phenomenon and spherical glow around the sun, created from crystalline moisture in the air, viewed at a particular angle. Through the colors, timbres, and textures of the orchestra, PARHELION traces an atmospheric journey from the heavens to the earth, to water and matter, and back out into the heavens. Dramaturgically, this is a metaphysical journey of the sun’s path from sunset to dawn—with the concentricity of the Hero’s Journey, the underworld before its dawn, molting and breaking anew in rebirth and regeneration. This work was created for the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. Building sensory sound worlds at the intersection of music and architecture, PARHELION offers both an inward and outward sonic meditation, and celebration of the Cabrillo Festival and what new music for the symphonic palette can be. The atmospheric aesthetic is inspired by the majestic and effervescent coasts of Santa Cruz, witnessing the slow cast of colors, shift of lighting, visual oscillations of the lighthouses and synergistic rhythm of the ocean waves. Transformed into music, this work captures these moments, pulsations of light frequencies, distances and proximities, creating a sense of the spatial and vast nature of the cosmos, and our perceptions of inner and outer space. —Bora Yoon Featuring text by Bora Yoon and Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Vocals: Bora Yoon Interactive Projection Design by Joshue Ott, Interval Studios Produced by Annie March, SOZO Lighting Design: Aron Altmark Visuals Operator: Nathan Wheeler Heartfelt thanks to The Buttery for contributing to Cabrillo Festival Orchestra musicians’ breakfasts! O pen M On - S un 7 aM - 7 pM (831) 458-3020 702 S Oquel a ve . S anta C ruz Ca