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Mya Byrne loved country music since her childhood in New Jersey. But it took years of searching and traveling to lead to the place where she could make her new album, Rhinestone Tomboy.

Widening the Embrace: A Reduced Carbon Footprint Concert (California-Korea, 2023) Widening the Embrace is the third stage in our collaboration, which began in 2016 with Changing Tides I and was followed at the beginning of the pandemic in February 2020 with Changing Tides 2: Requiem for the Earth. Our intention is to forge a path forward, balancing in sound as we collectively confront a morphing pandemic and undeniable climate crisis. In scientific and political fields today, the challenges facing humanity demand unprecedented levels of global, intercultural cooperation. As artists, we aspire to work in a similar spirit, drawing on the light-speed web of fiber optic nerves spread across our planet to create a trans-locational stage and activate it with new intercultural musical expressions. In collaboration with a team of visual designers and technologists, an ensemble of ten Korean and American improvisers split across our two sites will premiere new musical compositions that manifest our shared artistic affinities, in this latest collaborative effort to project our highest sonic aspirations. Musicians performing in Korea: Jean Oh (guitar) Aram Lee (daegum) Ju Hee Go (haegum) JoonSu Kim (singer) Donghyeok Kwak (modular synthesizer) Musicians performing in California: Michael Dessen (trombone) Wilfrido Terrazas (flute) Joshua White (piano) Mark Dresser (bass) Gerald Cleaver (drums) Visit: https://music-web.ucsd.edu/concerts/cms_index.php?now=1&query_event_code=20230204-Telematics Streaming LIVE for FREE at http://music.ucsd.edu/live UC San Diego on Facebook / Instagram

Following more than a dozen years of live musical performance across geographical distance, Widening the Embrace continues a path forward, balancing in sound as we collectively confront a morphing pandemic and undeniable climate crisis. In scientific and political fields today, the challenges facing humanity demand unprecedented levels of global, intercultural cooperation. As artists, we aspire to work in a similar spirit, drawing on the light-speed web of fiber optic nerves spread across our planet to create a trans-locational stage and activate it with new intercultural musical expressions. Directed by Mark Dresser and Michael Dessen, the concert features acclaimed musicians Ingrid Laubrock, Fay Victor and Patricia Brennan in New York City performing together with Dresser, Dessen, Joshua White, and Gerald Cleaver in California, with audiences at both locations. In collaboration with a team of visual designers and technologists, each concert features an ensemble of improvisers split across our two sites and premieres new musical compositions that manifest our shared artistic affinities, in this latest collaborative effort to project our highest sonic aspirations. Roulette lineup: Fay Victor – voice Ingrid Laubrock – saxophone Patricia Brennan – vibraphone California lineup: Michael Dessen – trombone Joshua White – piano Mark Dresser – bass Gerald Cleaver – drums Visit: https://music-web.ucsd.edu/concerts/cms_index.php?now=1&query_event_code=20230202-Telematics Streaming LIVE for FREE at http://music.ucsd.edu/live UC San Diego on Facebook / Instagram

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President Biden will be the second sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, Japan, the site of the first atomic attack. He is going there for a meeting with G-7 leaders.