City Calendar

Saturday

September 11

• 8:30 AM

  City of Cambridge to Hold 9/11 20th Anniversary Remembrance Ceremonies at Fire and Police Stations

  Robert W. Healy Public Safety Facility, 125th Sixth Street, Cambridge, MA; Cambridge Fire Houses

  In honor and remembrance of the 20th anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 attacks, the City of Cambridge will be hosting special ceremonies at the Cambridge Police and Fire stations on Saturday, September 11, 2021.

• 2:00 PM

  TREE MUSIC: Songs In the Key of C++ with Skooby Laposky and Charles Copley (Main)

  Main Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138

  An afternoon of new age folk utilizing tree biodata and acoustic guitar from Skooby Laposky and Charles Copley in Joan Lorentz Park As part of the Hidden Life Radio project, Skooby Laposky will be performing with his musical partner, Charles Copley, utilizing the biodata from the beloved weeping willow tree in Joan Lorentz Park, outside of the Main Library. Laposky and Copley regularly record together as Palm Reading for the music label Myndstream. Their new age folk project involves going on-site and recording entire albums based on the particular biodata of that location. The electrical activity of the local flora is measured and translated into rich polyphonic electronic music with Copley improvising on acoustic guitar as the flora's melodies unfold in real-time. Their music is a record of the locations in which they have visited and listened closely to. Skooby Laposky perfoms biodata sonification pieces in locations with unique sets of flora including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and has been recording various plants in such beautfiul locations as the mountain regions of Iceland, the “living wall” at Paris’ Musée du quai Branly, Yellowstone National Park, Joshua Tree National Park, and numerous forests in upstate New York.