AUGUST 10, 8:30PM. TRILLIONS MIX FOR THE PERSEID METEOR SHOWER.
Enjoy Cliff Baldwin’s mix of electroacoustic music composed exclusively for this year’s Perseid Meteor Shower event at Custer Institute!
Cliff Baldwin performs Trillions Mix, a multichannel electroacoustic mix featuring specific creatures and extraordinary surroundings from around the world.
The Perseid Meteor Shower and the Cicada Broods’ Appearance are the inspiration in 2024 for this assemblage of aural wonder. Enjoy the night skies as you are whisked away to the sweet swamps of Okefenokee, the wild streets and rumbling freight yards of Kansas City, the Thai temple of Doi Suthep, the dwarf beech forests of our own North Fork and the nighttime shores of Nuku’alofa, Tonga. Sit back and enjoy the Perseids Meteor Shower while the music of our sphere washes over you!
The Perseids will be in view during the show, weather permitting, and visible to the naked eye. This year should experience a good viewing of the meteor shower due to limited moonlight interference, and will be the best meteor shower display of the summer.
Following the concert, guests can stay to continue viewing the Perseid Meteor shower on our lawn. Observatory staff will also be providing guided tours of night sky objects (weather permitting) through the many telescopes on site, including the apochromatic Zerochromat telescope in our historic observation dome.
$25 Adult, $20 Observatory Member, Children Under 16 FREE. Attendance will be limited so advanced registration is strongly encouraged. Tickets at www.custerobservatory.org or by following the link below. A rain date for this program will be scheduled as needed depending on weather.
Please bring a blanket or chair to enjoy this outdoor presentation.
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THE ARTIST
Cliff Baldwin is a resident artist, composer, designer, and filmmaker on the North Fork and has been creating electronic music for over 45 years. He is the founder of the Aquebogue Contemporary Music Ensemble [ACME], a group devoted to contemporary electronic music, that was featured in the Rites of Spring Music Festival from 2016-2019 on the North Fork of Long Island.
Some of Cliff’s compositions include “The Kepler Music” performed at Custer Observatory in 2016, “ASTRI” and “LIGO-A-GOGO”, outdoor sound and video mixes which debuted at the Observatory in 2020, and “Voicing the Caldwells”, live 4-channel electroacoustic video piece which debuted at the Observatory in 2021. Cliff’s “Damn Epic Pandemic” live mixes streamed throughout 2020 from his studio garden. And he recently composed and debuted “BLACK LOCUST: Solo for Locust Tree and Electronics” at Guild Hall in East Hampton.
As an artist, Cliff founded the large format artist publication AQUI! in the early nineteen eighties working with artists like Barbara Kruger, Gilbert & George, Les Levine and General Idea. For 17 years he orchestrated large scale installations and created multiples with Fluxus artist Davi Det Hompson as the artist duo Baldwin+Hompson. His latest architectural project, SHAVILION was built in 2022 in Aquebogue.
Trillions Mix for the Perseid Meteor Shower Tickets, Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 8:30 PM | Eventbrite
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Custer Observatory
1115 Main Bayview Rd., Southold, NY 11971
Phone: 631-765-2626
ON-GOING: Custer Observatory is open to the public for stargazing every Saturday from 8pm until midnight. Staff provide guided tours of the night sky through powerful telescopes (weather permitting). Suggested donation: $5 Adults, $3 Children under 12.
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