STEVEN TEPPER TAMARA UNDERINER JACOB PINHOLSTER
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Outside Science Exposed Bringing Science to Life through the Arts Biodesign Insitute Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts WITH APPRECIATION Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts STEVEN TEPPER, dean TAMARA UNDERINER, associate dean for research JACOB PINHOLSTER, associate dean for policy and initiatives LIZ LERMAN, LLC ELISA GONZALES, graduate teaching assistant to Liz Lerman STEPHANIE ETHERIDGE WOODSON, associate professor and director, Design and Arts Corps XANTHIA WALKER, Design and Arts Corps MICHELE MATTLE, MPH, student researcher ERIN DONOHUE, project manager JOHN BORSTEL, director of critical response initiatives For the Biodesign Institute JOSHUA LABAER, executive director TAMARA DEUSER, chief operating officer MICHAEL GASKIN, chief scientific operations officer and the entire facilities team RUSSELL HARPER, assistant director, facilities KERRI ROBINSON, director of program development MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS TEAM For the ASU Foundation KIMBERLY HOPELY, vice president, unit development ERIC SPICER, senior director of development, Health at ASU Yvonne Wan (Msc) Anthropologist / Film Ethnographer / Advertising Consultant 480 787 6729 [email protected] www.Filmethnographer.com Specialist in broadcast standard ethnographic documentaries FILM SPONSOR Fountain Hills Hearing Health 17100 E. Shea Blvd., Ste. 616-620 Fountain Hills, AZ 85268 480-372-8383 fountainhillshearinghealth.com Providers of effective digital hearing instruments, for every need and lifestyle. MUSICIANS STEPHANIE HOECKLE Flute KRISTI HANNO Clarinet JUN LEE Cello SARAH KNIGHT Viola BRYNN VANCE Violin STEPHEN MITTON Composer ZACHARY BUSH Composer Alzheimer’s and a ‘symphony’ of the brain Hear what happens when two graduate music composition students spend time with neuroscientists, studying Alzheimer’s and the neurological effects of aging. ARTIST’S STATEMENT: Zachary Bush Cycles “Cycles was written as part of a collaboration with the Arizona State University Biodesign Institute. I was asked to write a piece about Alzheimer’s disease and as part of my experience, I visited with professors and scientists in the lab, visited a brain bank and held interviews with caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients. I decided to focus on the research aspect and the following piece depicts what I call a research “cycle.” Research takes months or years of methodical effort to try and prove a hypothesis. There are often many setbacks during this time. However, the experiments eventually are complete and the triumph of discovery prevails. This celebration is short-lived as the scientists then return to the methodical work of writing their findings and having them published, seeking funding for future research and starting the whole process once again. While this piece depicts a research cycle in potentially any field, there are certain rhythmic and pitch elements which are specific to Alzheimer’s. The e4 allele is a known marker of Alzheimer’s and the piece contains a large emphasis on “e” during the sections about research. Additionally, chromosomes 1, 14 and 21 have some connections to Alzheimer’s and those numbers form the values for rhythmic duration in the piece.” ARTIST’S STATEMENT: Stephen Mitton Stages In this piece I have attempted to capture the daily struggles of Alzheimer’s sufferers and their caregivers as the disease progresses through various stages over time. While the experience of dealing with Alzheimer’s is not consistent from one person or family to another, the constantly changing nature of the disease takes a tremendous emotional and physical toll on all affected. Much of the emotional content of this piece is based on listening to the stories of caregivers who have watched their loved ones change, lose their cognitive abilities and ultimately pass away. Despite these challenges, however, moments of peace and sweetness can be found in the lives of those caring for Alzheimer’s patients, and these moments have been appropriately represented in corresponding places in the music as well. One common thread I have discovered in many stories about living with Alzheimer’s disease is that while the sufferer undergoes dramatic changes in behavior over time, some elements of his or her personality come through in ways that are often unexpected. For this reason, I have chosen a 12-note theme (first heard in the clarinet) that represents the personality of the affected person, which undergoes a variety of permutations over the course of the piece. The support of loved ones, community members and specialists can also be heard in various countermelodies played by the flute and strings. Stages ends on a chord that can only be described as bittersweet. Its lack of complete resolution is both a nod to the fact that the effects of Alzheimer’s linger on in the lives of caregivers long after the death of a loved one, and to the fact that the disease represents an immense societal and cultural problem that has yet to be solved. HEAR:
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Science ExposedBringing Science to Life through the Arts
BiodesignInsitute
Herberger Institute forDesign and the Arts
WITH APPRECIATION Herberger Institute for Design and the ArtsSTEVEN TEPPER, deanTAMARA UNDERINER, associate dean for researchJACOB PINHOLSTER, associate dean for policy and initiativesLIZ LERMAN, LLCELISA GONZALES, graduate teaching assistant to Liz LermanSTEPHANIE ETHERIDGE WOODSON, associate professor and director, Design and Arts CorpsXANTHIA WALKER, Design and Arts CorpsMICHELE MATTLE, MPH, student researcherERIN DONOHUE, project managerJOHN BORSTEL, director of critical response initiatives
For the Biodesign InstituteJOSHUA LABAER, executive directorTAMARA DEUSER, chief operating officerMICHAEL GASKIN, chief scientific operations officer and the entire facilities teamRUSSELL HARPER, assistant director, facilitiesKERRI ROBINSON, director of program developmentMARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS TEAM
For the ASU FoundationKIMBERLY HOPELY, vice president, unit developmentERIC SPICER, senior director of development, Health at ASU
Yvonne Wan (Msc) Anthropologist / Film Ethnographer / Advertising Consultant480 787 6729YvonneWan@FilmEthnographer.comwww.Filmethnographer.comSpecialist in broadcast standard ethnographic documentaries
FILM SPONSOR
Fountain Hills Hearing Health17100 E. Shea Blvd., Ste. 616-620Fountain Hills, AZ 85268480-372-8383fountainhillshearinghealth.comProviders of effective digital hearing instruments, for every need and lifestyle.
MUSICIANS
STEPHANIE HOECKLE FluteKRISTI HANNO ClarinetJUN LEE CelloSARAH KNIGHT Viola
BRYNN VANCE ViolinSTEPHEN MITTON ComposerZACHARY BUSH Composer
Alzheimer’s and a ‘symphony’ of the brain
Hear what happens when two graduate music composition students spend time with neuroscientists, studying Alzheimer’s and the neurological effects of aging.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT: Zachary Bush
Cycles“Cycles was written as part of a collaboration with the Arizona State University Biodesign Institute. I was asked to write a piece about Alzheimer’s disease and as part of my experience, I visited with professors and scientists in the lab, visited a brain bank and held interviews with caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients. I decided to focus on the research aspect and the following piece depicts what I call a research “cycle.” Research takes months or years of methodical effort to try and prove a hypothesis. There are often many setbacks during this time. However, the experiments eventually are complete and the triumph of discovery prevails. This celebration is short-lived as the scientists then return to the methodical work of writing their findings and having them published, seeking funding for future research and starting the whole process once again.
While this piece depicts a research cycle in potentially any field, there are certain rhythmic and pitch elements which are specific to Alzheimer’s. The e4 allele is a known marker of Alzheimer’s and the piece contains a large emphasis on “e” during the sections about research. Additionally, chromosomes 1, 14 and 21 have some connections to Alzheimer’s and those numbers form the values for rhythmic duration in the piece.”
ARTIST’S STATEMENT: Stephen Mitton
StagesIn this piece I have attempted to capture the daily struggles of Alzheimer’s sufferers and their caregivers as the disease progresses through various stages over time. While the experience of dealing with Alzheimer’s is not consistent from one person or family to another, the constantly changing nature of the disease takes a tremendous emotional and physical toll on all affected. Much of the emotional content of this piece is based on listening to the stories of caregivers who have watched their loved ones change, lose their cognitive abilities and ultimately pass away. Despite these challenges, however, moments of peace and sweetness can be found in the lives of those caring for Alzheimer’s patients, and these moments have been appropriately represented in corresponding places in the music as well. One common thread I have discovered in many stories about living with Alzheimer’s disease is that while the sufferer undergoes dramatic changes in behavior over time, some elements of his or her personality come through in ways that are often unexpected. For this reason, I have chosen a 12-note theme (first heard in the clarinet) that represents the personality of the affected person, which undergoes a variety of permutations over the course of the piece. The support of loved ones, community members and specialists can also be heard in various countermelodies played by the flute and strings. Stages ends on a chord that can only be described as bittersweet. Its lack of complete resolution is both a nod to the fact that the effects of Alzheimer’s linger on in the lives of caregivers long after the death of a loved one, and to the fact that the disease represents an immense societal and cultural problem that has yet to be solved.
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When I walk through the glass doors of Biodesign 2, I step into the peaceful atrium, and notice a rising feeling of being at home. I feel oriented, and breathe easy.
My parents immigrated to the U.S. for science and education; I grew up in labs, playing with “toys” like gels and 3-D molecular structures. I know my way around here, instinctively.
I climb the bright floors of Biodesign towards Wei Kong’s lab on the third floor. On my way, I smell lunches heating up, they smell like resilience and nostalgia. I know these smells, I cook like this too.
Step by step, I drink in the photo mosaics of researchers displayed like welcome signs at the front door of every buzzing lab. I see my own brown face in theirs. I see my parent’s faces.
There they are now, new immigrants, white coated, bent over a centrifuge behind the glass. Science is why I was the first person in my vast family lineage to be born outside of India. Science raised me to know about the delicate balance between insider and outsider. Science served as a sanctuary to my family.
My parents were born into colonized India; subject to various kinds of generational warfare, they were the only ones of their generation to immigrate.
Science.
In my doctoral work on wellness and race, I advocate for science to continue to be a sanctuary for these faces in the glass. As an artist-scholar in Liz Lerman’s Animating Research project, I rejoice in the chance to dance again with science. I feel at home at this intersection.
Transparency, connection, right actions, and mindful pursuits; these are values that I closely associate with home. These are values that I encounter walking through this building and semester. Candidly, I imagine home at least as much as I encounter it. Like a spider, I create it from within wherever I go. This semester, I made a home here at Biodesign; here at the intersection of glass and light, migration and desert sediment. For this feeling of home, I offer my art as a prayer of gratitude. I wish for all to feel at home in their bodies, for all to know the power of science, art and sanctuary.
ROOPA SINGH, Esq. PH.D., Justice and Social InquiryYoga, Race, and Sustainability, School of Social Transformation
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