Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
You're watching an original Virtual SDMA + Art of Elan performance! 🎺⠀
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Watch and listen to UCSD Music Professor Stephanie Richards inspired by the optimism and feeling of joyful possibility that emanate from Dewain Valentine's "Circle, Blue-Violet." ⠀
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"The musical headspace in which rising Brooklyn-via-Canada trumpeter Steph Richards operates stretches far beyond avant-garde jazz—an area she’s explored with visionaries such as Anthony Braxton, Henry Threadgill, and John Zorn—and into art-pop territory (she’s logged studio time with Yoko Ono and David Byrne too).” (JazzTimes). An adventurous #trumpeter, #conductor and #composer, Steph Richards is a radical innovator in the avant and experimental scenes and is driven by a curiosity how listeners interact with music and what sensory variables are open to experimentation. ⠀
Virtual SDMA + Art of Elan is a series of online experiences pairing the SDMA collection with the thoughtfully curated #music of Art of Elan. The short musical responses are meant to inspire and uplift the community.⠀
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Featured: DeWain Valentine. "Circle, Blue-Violet," 1978. Polyester resin. Museum purchase with funds from the Docent Committee, the Gilbert Fund and the Severance Fund. 1983.10.⠀
You're watching an original Virtual SDMA + Art of Elan performance! 🎺⠀
⠀
Watch and listen to UCSD Music Professor Stephanie Richards inspired by the optimism and feeling of joyful possibility that emanate from Dewain Valentine's "Circle, Blue-Violet." ⠀
⠀
"The musical headspace in which rising Brooklyn-via-Canada trumpeter Steph Richards operates stretches far beyond avant-garde jazz—an area she’s explored with visionaries such as Anthony Braxton, Henry Threadgill, and John Zorn—and into art-pop territory (she’s logged studio time with Yoko Ono and David Byrne too).” (JazzTimes). An adventurous #trumpeter, #conductor and #composer, Steph Richards is a radical innovator in the avant and experimental scenes and is driven by a curiosity how listeners interact with music and what sensory variables are open to experimentation. ⠀
Virtual SDMA + Art of Elan is a series of online experiences pairing the SDMA collection with the thoughtfully curated #music of Art of Elan. The short musical responses are meant to inspire and uplift the community.⠀
⠀
Featured: DeWain Valentine. "Circle, Blue-Violet," 1978. Polyester resin. Museum purchase with funds from the Docent Committee, the Gilbert Fund and the Severance Fund. 1983.10.⠀
