A raucous 12-piece marching band surprised students at various points on campus on May 7, even showing up next to The Sleepwalker (“We were trying to wake him up,” said the trombone player) before performing in the Davis Museum Plaza. The NYC-based group, Asphalt Orchestra, was part of a music department project, “Making Space: A Semester of Pop-Up Events to Transform the Social Soundscape.” The project aimed to create and energize some “urban centers” on campus and encourage people to gather and interact in them.
Cue the Trombone!
Photo by Richard Howard
Photo by Richard Howard
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