Events from the 2020-2021 Season
The first event of the season “Blow By Blow by Dorothy Hindman” featured a Virtual Album Release Event on October 30, 2020 on Zoom. We celebrated Hindman’s latest latest Innova Records release Blow by Blow with performer interviews, inside stories, multimedia videos, giveaways, and *live premieres* of new works created just for the event by some of today’s most exciting young composers.
The season continued with the Out in the Air Festival, a progressive music and media experience at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden (December 3, 4 and 5, 2020). The audiences could experience the flutist Margaret Lancaster in her Breath of Death Pavilion with Alex Lough on electronics, sound and media installations by Rachel Weiss and Juraj Kojš sprinkled around the garden, and performances by the musical gondolier Troy Rogers on a canal at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden during the 2020 Miami Art Week. The participants could follow the narrative paths through installations and performances in the garden, hear sonified Florida orchid DNA, meditate in an open roof pavilion, contribute to building a city made of plastic orchid pots, DJ on the Orchid Music Synthesizer and Sequencer and participate in creating an Orchid Memorial. The pinnacle were Lancaster’s Breath of Death Pavilion performances and the music gondolier at the canal.