A composition commissioned for Manny Rettinger’s Chuppers–acoustic and electric creatures that refract sound. Excerpts are from a live Keller Hall performance of “La Virga,” which includes interviews about performers’ memories of intense weather and atmospheric events to evoke the changes of climate in our short lifetimes.

2013

La Virga from Marisa Demarco on Vimeo.

Performers: Daniel Villanueva, Monica Demarco, Rosie Hutchinson, Marisa Demarco, Stephanie Graner, Clifford Grindstaff, Chuppers

Full video by Lisa Villanueva