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Xochi Cuicatl, November 4, 2023
To celebrate the launch of the Digital Florentine Codex, I curated an outdoor concert debuting an original score by musician Lu Coy.
Known for their mastery of woodwinds, electronics and agile vocals, Coy mines inspiration from ancient texts, stories, and musical traditions, guiding audiences through splendid architectures of ancestral memory. Musical group Xochi Cuicatl opened the performance with instruments of Mesoamerica.
LAist reporter Adolfo Guzman-Lopez and Getty Research Institute researcher Kim Richter introduced the performance with a discussion on the historical resonances of the Florentine Codex in Southern California, the ancestral homeland of the Gabrieleño/Tongva, Chumash, and Tataviam peoples, and as well as the Codex's impact on numerous Indigenous groups throughout the Americas.
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