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Why we're digging into weather...

At Myrtle Tree Arts, we're developing an event we've called Earth Dayta . This site-specific one-night installation will be a musical and visual gathering inspired by live and historical data from nature. Our intention is to dialog with and celebrate the unique surroundings of Wakamatsu Farm and the Sierra Foothills region. How did this idea come about? As artists, we already dialog with elements of nature. A new opportunity to creatively use nature-based data became the perfect opportunity to honor Earth Day 2022 . Paul Godwin, Elena DeLacy and myself got together with Zack Dowell at the Innovation Center, Folsom Lake College, to talk about data, media, music, and sound. I started developing a piece I call "Harbingers" . Harbingers are subtle indicators of change in the climate. I was looking for data that express subtle variations, those we might ordinarily miss, as raw material. To try to connect the artistic senses to the hard sciences. Searching for local histo