Tucson Water and its artist-in-residence have released a 'Monsoon Mixtape' by local musicians that features — and celebrates — the sounds of our summer storms.
The city utility and its first-ever artist-in-residence have released “Monsoon Mixtape,” an online collection of six original songs by local musicians designed to welcome and celebrate our summer storms.
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Wiehe acknowledged how “totally unusual” it is for a public utility to have its own artist-in-residence, but Tucson Water saw it as a unique opportunity to engage with its customers and neighbors.The utility is especially eager to improve its engagement and collaboration with residents on Tucson’s south and west sides, where a history of contamination problems and other issues have eroded trust in the department.
“This is totally my project,” she said. “It’s a community that I’m a part of and I get to make art about.” To Jimenez, the Chubasco Channel is more than just soothing background noise to be enjoyed by expatriate desert dwellers. It’s a historical record of a weather phenomenon that could be upended by human-caused climate change.
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