FREE IMPROVISATION
SPLICE SERIES, Chicago, IL. 

Noelia Cruz, violin
Hunter Brown, live electronics
Zachary Good, clarinet and woodwinds
Peter Maunu, guitar, violin, mandolin


Ceremonies

Composer and Artist in Residence: Noelia Cruz 
Ceremonies is a composition dedicated to Bodéwadmi Astronomy, to the ancestors’ star-land relationships and the knowledge keeping across generations mirrored in the beauty and assertion of ceremony, art, storytelling and resistance. 
Exploration Institute STEAM Residency
Eighth Blackbird & Yerkes Observatory
June 2025
Kishwauketoe, Wishkosnak
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin 



For piano, unrepatriated flute (tenor flute), bass voice, prepared violi-maraca; violi-güiro, violi-mayohabao & birch bark sticks, cello, flute, mbira, maple sap & wabgen (clay beads). 

Ensemble
Noelia Cruz, composer, violigüiro, violimaraca, mayohabao. 
Ethan Cowburn, percussion arrangements 
Zachary Good, tenor flute
Lina Andonovska, flute
Aaron Wolff, cello
Garrett Obrycki, piano & bass voice

EIGHTH BLACKBIRD CREATIVE LAB, 2023 Composer: Anna Murray, Beaming and Beckoning 
Eighth Blackbird Creative Lab 2O23 
Yerkes Observatory, Lake Geneva, WI

Composer: Tyler Eschendal
Eighth Blackbird Creative Lab 2023
Yerkes Observatory, Lake Geneva, WI

Audio engineer: Matthew McCabe
Video: Brian Ashby
@eighthblackbird, @yerkesobservatory #EighthBlackbird  


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Noelia Cruz - Violinist / Multidisciplinary Artist
Website by Camila Cruz