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To understand those rules you first need to know that there are three groups: graffiti writers, street artists and muralists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"circle\" ids=\"10530898,10530902,10530900\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graffiti writers work illegally, and primarily paint letters and symbols. Their creations can range from a small signature on a mailbox to a large, multicolored word on the side of a building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Street artists are also working illegally, but their work tends to look more like an illustration or graphic. Things like wheatpaste, stencils or stickers are classified as street art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muralists almost always do legal paintings. In San Francisco, they need permission from the property owner. 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(Courtesy of fnnch)\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Slash2-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Slash2-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Slash2-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Slash2-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Slash2-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After painting over tags, street artist fnnch found his stencils slashed. (Courtesy of fnnch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In January, street artist\u003ca href=\"https://instagram.com/fnnch/\" target=\"_blank\"> fnnch\u003c/a> began creating stencils of honey bears within a four-block radius around the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We all take this image for granted as being totally acceptable,\" says fnnch. \"But really it's a surreal idea that you would put honey into a container that's shaped like a bear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the first night he painted five honey bears, some of them directly on top of tags that graffiti writers had left on mailboxes. Within a week, someone had taken a blue spray-paint can and made a mark right through the center of the bears -- the ultimate sign of disrespect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I posted [photos of my work] on Instagram, people started to comment and say that I shouldn’t paint on top of tags for my own safety,\" says fnnch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had upset the graffiti hierarchy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Playing By The Rules\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the three groups, graffiti writers have the most structured hierarchy about what is OK and what is not OK to cover with new art.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>Know Your Graffiti Vocab\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2hgKsrOvkk&w=350&h=197]\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Certain things can go over certain things, and writers understand that because it's pretty much basics in graffiti,\" says a San Francisco tagger who goes by the name Sinatra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Tag:\u003c/strong> At the bottom of the totem pole, tags are usually single-color signatures.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Throw-up: \u003c/strong>A quickly drawn name in big bubble letters.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Piece:\u003c/strong> Not as quick to execute as a throw-up. A piece will have cleaner lines and more detailed fill within the letters.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Burner: \u003c/strong>The most respected type of work among graffiti writers. This art is a display of the best work a graffiti writer can do.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Generally, as long as what goes on top is bigger and more intricate, the community hums along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when someone upsets that hierarchy -- by putting a tag over a throw-up, or even a tag on top of another tag -- it's a sign of disrespect that could end in a fight, or ongoing efforts to destroy someone's work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what about fnnch's honey bears? Where do they fit into the hierarchy?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/04/20/baycurious.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nWhat do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate? \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"I thought taggers would be fine with me painting over their tags because I thought what I was doing would be considered a piece,\" fnnch says. \"But what I came to learn is graffiti people don't view the street art people as being anywhere on the hierarchy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Sinatra what he thinks when a street artist puts his or her work on top of his tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's beef. That's bad,\" Sinatra says. \"Every time I see that stencil, I'm going to put my name over it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alhough street artists and graffiti writers use similar materials and are competing for the same space, they aren't playing the same game. The rules are different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10530908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15208_IMG_5843-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10530908\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15208_IMG_5843-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A graffiti writer tags on top of a piece of street art. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15208_IMG_5843-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15208_IMG_5843-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15208_IMG_5843-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15208_IMG_5843-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15208_IMG_5843-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15208_IMG_5843-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A graffiti writer tags on top of a piece of street art. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Above Them All? Murals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if each group is abiding by its own etiquette, why are murals often left alone by graffiti writers and street artists?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put it simply, muralists are the most respected within the larger community. Many of them came out of graffiti writing or street art and now command the respect of their peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, murals are certainly not immune to being painted on. Work done by outside artists, or those who have done a lot of corporate work, are often targeted by taggers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because Clarion Alley attracts so many visitors, it's become a high-profile location for taggers to make their mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sinatra points to the background of one mural, where taggers have squeezed their tags into the negative space between the detailed brushwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s not exactly on the mural. But it’s just off to the side. It’s just like free space. They can paint over that easily,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"IFXgmMgyVfNgDNvTR4VCHplNpLRdAeK7\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Sinatra, a tag on the artwork itself would be an affront, but a tag on the solid-colored background or side of the mural? Fair game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I go over a mural, it's not because I don't like you. It's not because I'm trying to disrespect you,\" Sinatra says. \"It's because I like that spot. I want my name on that spot. You just happen to be in the way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember Megan Wilson, who leads the group that oversees the murals on Clarion Alley? She doesn't quite see it that way. When artists from \u003cem>any\u003c/em> of the three groups paint without permission, it's not cool to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like, 'Why are you doing this to other artists? You think you're badass? Go out and do this on a bank. Go do this on some really lame corporation,' \" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To her, the etiquette is dead simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not a matter of, oh there's some sort of code we go by. The code is just respect,\" she says. \"You respect the artist. You respect the work. You respect one another.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep the alley looking its best, Wilson and other volunteers are out there every week repairing the murals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be why so many visitors -- like Rebecca, who asked this week's Bay Curious question -- can enjoy the art unobscured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Got a question you want KQED’s Bay Curious team to investigate? \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\">Ask!\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jeremy Raff contributed to this report. Thanks, Jeremy!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>As part of our series, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Curious\u003c/a>, we’re answering questions from KQED listeners and readers. This question comes from Mission District resident Rebecca Busch, who wanted to know:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I think it’s interesting that murals don’t get covered in graffiti. Why do some murals stay up for a really long time, even in communities where there’s lots of graffiti on random walls and buildings? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's Clarion Alley is considered by many to be the heart of the mural scene in the Bay Area. The street is lined with massive, vibrant murals that tackle subjects like gentrification, corporate greed and the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tags happen to some degree every week,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.meganwilson.com/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Megan Wilson\u003c/a>, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Clarion-Alley-Mural-Project/127102311571\" target=\"_blank\">Clarion Alley Mural Project\u003c/a>, the group that curates the alleyway. \"It's generally younger artists who are just starting out and don't grasp the idea of respect.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/206235578&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/206235578'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though graffiti often marks up the perimeter of the murals, it's rare to find a tag cutting directly across the detailed center of the artwork, says Wilson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graffiti writers work illegally, and primarily paint letters and symbols. Their creations can range from a small signature on a mailbox to a large, multicolored word on the side of a building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Street artists are also working illegally, but their work tends to look more like an illustration or graphic. Things like wheatpaste, stencils or stickers are classified as street art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muralists almost always do legal paintings. In San Francisco, they need permission from the property owner. They use paintbrushes or spray paint to create their large-scale works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each group follows different etiquette, and if you break that etiquette, there can be consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Case of the Honey Bear\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10530903\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Slash2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10530903\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Slash2-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"After painting over tags, street artist fnnch found his stencils slashed. (Courtesy of fnnch)\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Slash2-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Slash2-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Slash2-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Slash2-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Slash2-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After painting over tags, street artist fnnch found his stencils slashed. (Courtesy of fnnch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In January, street artist\u003ca href=\"https://instagram.com/fnnch/\" target=\"_blank\"> fnnch\u003c/a> began creating stencils of honey bears within a four-block radius around the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We all take this image for granted as being totally acceptable,\" says fnnch. \"But really it's a surreal idea that you would put honey into a container that's shaped like a bear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the first night he painted five honey bears, some of them directly on top of tags that graffiti writers had left on mailboxes. Within a week, someone had taken a blue spray-paint can and made a mark right through the center of the bears -- the ultimate sign of disrespect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I posted [photos of my work] on Instagram, people started to comment and say that I shouldn’t paint on top of tags for my own safety,\" says fnnch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had upset the graffiti hierarchy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Playing By The Rules\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the three groups, graffiti writers have the most structured hierarchy about what is OK and what is not OK to cover with new art.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>Know Your Graffiti Vocab\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/d2hgKsrOvkk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/d2hgKsrOvkk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Certain things can go over certain things, and writers understand that because it's pretty much basics in graffiti,\" says a San Francisco tagger who goes by the name Sinatra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Tag:\u003c/strong> At the bottom of the totem pole, tags are usually single-color signatures.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Throw-up: \u003c/strong>A quickly drawn name in big bubble letters.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Piece:\u003c/strong> Not as quick to execute as a throw-up. A piece will have cleaner lines and more detailed fill within the letters.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Burner: \u003c/strong>The most respected type of work among graffiti writers. This art is a display of the best work a graffiti writer can do.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Generally, as long as what goes on top is bigger and more intricate, the community hums along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when someone upsets that hierarchy -- by putting a tag over a throw-up, or even a tag on top of another tag -- it's a sign of disrespect that could end in a fight, or ongoing efforts to destroy someone's work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what about fnnch's honey bears? Where do they fit into the hierarchy?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/04/20/baycurious.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nWhat do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate? \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"I thought taggers would be fine with me painting over their tags because I thought what I was doing would be considered a piece,\" fnnch says. \"But what I came to learn is graffiti people don't view the street art people as being anywhere on the hierarchy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Sinatra what he thinks when a street artist puts his or her work on top of his tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's beef. That's bad,\" Sinatra says. \"Every time I see that stencil, I'm going to put my name over it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alhough street artists and graffiti writers use similar materials and are competing for the same space, they aren't playing the same game. The rules are different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10530908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15208_IMG_5843-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10530908\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15208_IMG_5843-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A graffiti writer tags on top of a piece of street art. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15208_IMG_5843-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15208_IMG_5843-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15208_IMG_5843-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15208_IMG_5843-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15208_IMG_5843-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15208_IMG_5843-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A graffiti writer tags on top of a piece of street art. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Above Them All? Murals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if each group is abiding by its own etiquette, why are murals often left alone by graffiti writers and street artists?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put it simply, muralists are the most respected within the larger community. Many of them came out of graffiti writing or street art and now command the respect of their peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, murals are certainly not immune to being painted on. Work done by outside artists, or those who have done a lot of corporate work, are often targeted by taggers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because Clarion Alley attracts so many visitors, it's become a high-profile location for taggers to make their mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sinatra points to the background of one mural, where taggers have squeezed their tags into the negative space between the detailed brushwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s not exactly on the mural. But it’s just off to the side. It’s just like free space. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>“Between Homelands” is a series produced in partnership with students from USC Annenberg’s School for Communication and Journalism. They’re bringing us stories of people living in California who have come from afar, or who were born in the U.S. but feel like cultural foreigners.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Cindi Alvitre walks across the parking lot at California State University, Long Beach, she sees the asphalt, the buildings and the rows of cars. But she also sees something else. In her mind’s eye, she sees \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6mXuBnmTms\" target=\"_blank\">Puvungna\u003c/a>, the sprawling tribal territory overlooking the Pacific Ocean that was once home to \u003ca href=\"http://www.tongvapeople.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Tongva \u003c/a>people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I walk around, I live in two worlds,” says Alvitre. “The other one is a constant conversation with nature and with the ancestors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvitre’s ancestors were the dominant culture here until the Spanish conquest. In fact, the entire Los Angeles basin and beyond -- from the hills of downtown L.A. to the beaches of Catalina Island -- is the ancestral homeland of the Tongva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Alvitre is one of fewer than 2,000 remaining Tongvan descendants. The tribe is still seeking federal recognition. And in a region that’s been home for millennia, some contemporary Tongva struggle to find their place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/205685563\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who are struggling, Alvitre, 60, is a pillar of cultural strength, helping them to connect with their indigenous roots. She talks about how the Tongva were ocean people, living in huts by the beach, wearing grass skirts and shells, and diving for abalone. And when she needs to reconnect, she goes to the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nature is a comfort zone,” she says. “To sit on a rock, out at the end of the jetty, to go in the water, to watch the seals and the sea lions … [it’s healing] just to be back in the natural world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvitre traces her sense of connection back to her father. He filled her childhood with stories of the past. On car rides through Southern California, he would point out Tongva burial sites and former villages, or spots where her Indian grandfather once foraged for medicinal plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was always told, ‘This is your home. Your ancestors are from this home, and this is where they are buried,’ ” she says, remembering hikes with her dad. “When he walked through there, he would tell us, ‘Shh, don’t talk loud. This is a sacred place.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10527442\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10527442\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety-800x523.jpg\" alt=\"A display at the Ti'at Society Artist Collective.\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety-800x523.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety-400x261.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety-1440x941.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety-1180x771.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety-960x628.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/TiatSociety.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A display at the Ti'at Society Artist Collective. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Case/USC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s how the beach sand and the grassy hills -- and even the land under L.A. high-rises and strip malls -- became embedded with ancestral meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvitre took this knowledge into her life’s work. She is a professor of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cla.csulb.edu/departments/americanindianstudies/\">American Indian Studies\u003c/a> at Cal State University, Long Beach. And she was the first female chair of the Gabrieleno/Tongva Tribal Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One night, nearly 30 years ago, her ancestors came to her in a dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the dream, a massive Tongvan warrior emerged from the mounds of the Saddleback Mountains. Beneath the mountains, a lake formed. Native Americans paddled across the lake in wooden canoes while speaking to each other in the Tongva language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soon as the rowers found their cadence, paddling in synchronicity, the warrior’s eyes opened, the mountains parted and the canoes set forth onto the ocean, toward Catalina Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was this amazing vision of mountains that I grew up around in Orange County, but here [are] these boats I’ve never seen,” says Alvitre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks later, she got a call from Jim Noyes of the California Indigenous Maritime Association. He asked if she’d be interested in reviving her tribe’s naval culture by building a \u003cem>ti’at\u003c/em> -- a traditional Tongvan canoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He described the boat in my dreams,” Alvitre says. “I was really blown away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noyes and Alvitre joined forces then to start the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cla.csulb.edu/departments/americanindianstudies/marcus-lopez-tiat-restoration-orientation/\" target=\"_blank\">Ti’at Society\u003c/a>. The group built Moomat Ahiko (Tongvan for “Breath of the Ocean”) -– the first and only modern \u003cem>ti’at\u003c/em> in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10526216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10526216 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The ti'at Moomat Ahiko, gleaming after a new coat of paint, was featured at the pow wow.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Case-5-of-6-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ti'at Moomat Ahiko, gleaming after a new coat of paint, was featured at the pow wow. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Case/USC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This spring, after more than two decades of use, Moomat Ahiko underwent repairs. At Cal State, Long Beach -- the former site of the village of Puvungna -- Ti’at Society members met every Sunday to restore the boat. They fixed leaks, gave it a chestnut-colored stain and painted a red ochre around its glittering abalone accents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvitre and her group displayed the new and improved \u003cem>ti’at\u003c/em> at the \u003ca href=\"http://web.csulb.edu/divisions/students/sld/american_indian_services/pow_wow/\">45\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Annual Cal State Puvugna Pow Wow\u003c/a> in March. Moomat Ahiko was a focal point amid the singers, drum circles and throngs of dancers dressed in the regalia of many tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next destination for Moomat Ahiko is the ocean. Members of the Ti’at Society plan to return the boat to the water in a ceremony this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ceremony will allow more Tongva to connect with the ocean -- and with their heritage. For Alvitre, that connection is so key to her identity that Moomat Ahiko is tattooed on her arm. Through immersing herself in Tongvan maritime culture, she’s unlocked a passion that feels like home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my life,” says Alvitre. “This is the language I feel comfortable speaking.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Maybe we should have seen this coming. After all, \u003ca title=\"Mikal Cronin\" href=\"http://mikalcronin.com/news/\" target=\"_blank\">Mikal Cronin \u003c/a>began his \u003ca title=\"Pitchfork\" href=\"http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15844-mikal-cronin/\" target=\"_blank\">debut album\u003c/a> four years ago with some stacked a cappella harmonies, like a precocious, young \u003ca title=\"L.A. Times \" href=\"http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-brian-wilson-20150404-story.html#page=1\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Wilson\u003c/a>. And two years ago, his second album, \"MCII,\" opened with a lively solo piano bit leading to a bubbly pop song that could have almost been prime \u003ca title=\"Elton John\" href=\"http://www.eltonjohn.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Elton John\u003c/a>. So why would we be surprised to drop the proverbial needle on “Turn Around,” the opener of the new \"MCIII\" (Merge)\u003cem>,\u003c/em> and hear a lush, soaring string section?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/203512805\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a couple dozen singles, EPs and albums in his own name and in various bands and collaborations, Cronin has already covered a lot of musical ground. And he’s just 29. But on his latest solo album, he not only gives us some delightful surprises, but seems to be fully coming into his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/550_mikalcronin_2500px.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10505788\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/550_mikalcronin_2500px-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"550_mikalcronin_2500px\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/550_mikalcronin_2500px-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/550_mikalcronin_2500px-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/550_mikalcronin_2500px-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/550_mikalcronin_2500px-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/550_mikalcronin_2500px-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/550_mikalcronin_2500px-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/550_mikalcronin_2500px-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/550_mikalcronin_2500px-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/550_mikalcronin_2500px-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/550_mikalcronin_2500px-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>Still, no matter what Cronin has done, he’s often typecast as a garage-rocker, just like \u003ca title=\"Ty Segall\" href=\"http://ty-segall.com/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ty Segall\u003c/a>, his longtime pal and frequent co-conspirator. They’re sort of a pair of Southern California \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2014/05/20/313991548/jack-whites-lazaretto-the-all-songs-interview\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Whites\u003c/a>: DIY polymaths for whom spirit has always been paramount over polish, even when buffed with strings, arranged by Cronin himself. And whether punk aggression or pop sentiment, the spirit is very Southern Californian. Just listen to the layered pop waves, and layered emotions, on “Feel Like.” It’s closer to \u003ca href=\"https://rockhall.com/inductees/fleetwood-mac/bio/\" target=\"_blank\">Fleetwood Mac\u003c/a> than to \u003ca title=\"Trouser Press\" href=\"http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=black_flag\">Black Flag\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But neither Fleetwood Mac nor Black Flag — nor Jack White, for that matter — has done anything quite like “Circle,” the six-part song cycle that makes up \"MCIII’s\" second half. It’s not the unfolding majesty of \"\u003ca title=\"The Beatles Abbey Road\" href=\"http://www.thebeatles.com/album/abbey-road\" target=\"_blank\">Abbe\u003c/a>\u003ca title=\"The Beatles Abbey Road\" href=\"http://www.thebeatles.com/album/abbey-road\" target=\"_blank\">y\u003c/a>\u003ca title=\"The Beatles Abbey Road\" href=\"http://www.thebeatles.com/album/abbey-road\" target=\"_blank\"> Road\u003c/a>\" or anything, but it’s bracingly sweeping on its own terms. The songs trace a period of Cronin’s youth in which he left \u003ca href=\"http://www.lagunabeachcity.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Laguna Beach\u003c/a>, where he grew up, to go to school in the Northwest and found himself isolated and uncertain, exacerbated by intense pain from a back injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alone,” the song that starts the sequence, paints a troubled and troubling picture, with music suitably downcast and closed-in. Through the cycle there’s a rainbow of catharsis, from intimately fragile and moody to the punk fury of “Ready,” more in line with his garage-y Segall collaborations. At the close of the suite and the album, he’s looking ahead with optimism in the song “Circle,” the music itself embraced as his guide and salvation. His home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cronin isn’t reinventing any wheels here, let alone inventing some. He’s not even reinventing himself. Even with the strings and some horns, it’s still mostly a one-man venture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a sense of maturity, though, of determination to go with his ambition, a sense of an artist with new resolve and resolution — someone who, as one of the most expansive, engaging songs puts it, has \"Made My Mind Up.” And that bodes very well for \"MCIV.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And so did the orchestra director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10500180\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/photo4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10500180\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/photo4.jpg\" alt=\"Ge Wang, assistant professor of music at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, teaches a music coding lesson to students participating in the Stanford Laptop Orchestra.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/photo4.jpg 3264w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/photo4-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/photo4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/photo4-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/photo4-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/photo4-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ge Wang, assistant professor of music at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, teaches a music coding lesson to students participating in the Stanford Laptop Orchestra. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That was nothing short of magical,” says Ge Wang, assistant professor of music at Stanford. “Tim was able to really find this mix where human meets machine. And in that way, it was like this dialogue. But what came out of the computer was a sound that would not come anywhere except through a computer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wang and Huberth also like when students get physical with the medium. For example, one student is programming an armband to produce sounds when he stretches or clenches his hand. Other students use Gametraks, little black boxes originally used as a video game control, that have two red retractable cables. Students connect them to their laptops and program them to produce different notes or rhythms when they pull them up, down, left or right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can rapidly prototype physical gestures, interactions and map them to sound,” Wang explains. “It enables a way to quickly explore a whole world of new sounds, interactions, and performance practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10500181\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/laptop-orchestra-5.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10500181\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/laptop-orchestra-5.jpg\" alt=\" Erica Fearon demonstrates a piece of music she composed on her laptop. She programmed the cables to make different sounds when she moved them in different directions.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/laptop-orchestra-5.jpg 2448w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/laptop-orchestra-5-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/laptop-orchestra-5-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/laptop-orchestra-5-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/laptop-orchestra-5-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/laptop-orchestra-5-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erica Fearon demonstrates a piece of music she composed on her laptop. She programmed the cables to make different sounds when she moved them in different directions. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wang says this makes for a better experience for the audience – one that is both pleasing to listen to and also interesting to watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says this is one of the ways laptop orchestra is evolving as a medium. Wang was a founding member of the first laptop orchestra, launched at Princeton University 10 years ago. He started the Stanford Laptop Orchestra, known affectionately as Slork, in 2008. Today, there are more than 70 laptop orchestras, but Wang says they’re still really just beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ten years may be a long time in computer years. To really make it into an art form, it’s still quite early,” Wang says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some more advanced laptop musicians are pushing boundaries. Madeline Huberth helped form a chamber group called Sidelobe, which meets year-round and works on reinterpreting earlier compositions, choosing from a young but growing library of more than 300 works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been pulling pieces from the canon, from the laptop orchestra canon,” Huberth says. “Pieces that have done very well, that have been written by more seasoned composers, and we’re giving these performances new life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest challenge laptop musicians face is the same challenge all artists confront, Wang says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether a violin, cello, piano or a laptop, we’re all looking for a different way to represent that spark of humanity,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Stanford Laptop Orchestra will perform a chamber music concert on April 30 and a full orchestral concert on May 30. The \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://slork.stanford.edu/events/2015/slorktastic/\">\u003cem>events\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> are both free and open to the public. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Students write code to create their own instrument on the computer, which they will score into a full orchestral work by the end of the semester.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/c1f1DATjZUg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/c1f1DATjZUg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Several students in the class have a musical background, like Huberth, while several others come from computer science or engineering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I studied physics and I have kind of a tech background,” graduate student Tim O’Brien says. “But I loved music all my life, so it kind of combines everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent class meeting, he and 13 other students sat on rows of meditation pillows, fixing code on their laptops and fiddling with speakers made out of IKEA salad bowls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They rehearsed ensemble pieces that they will perform at an \u003ca href=\"http://slork.stanford.edu/events/2015/slorktastic/\">upcoming chamber concert\u003c/a>, and demonstrated their individual solo instruments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Brien began his demo by taking a big breath and blowing softly into his laptop. Then he jingled his car keys over the keyboard and tapped his water bottle. He programmed his computer’s microphone to translate these human actions into a morphed, electronic sound. The class loved it. And so did the orchestra director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10500180\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/photo4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10500180\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/photo4.jpg\" alt=\"Ge Wang, assistant professor of music at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, teaches a music coding lesson to students participating in the Stanford Laptop Orchestra.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/photo4.jpg 3264w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/photo4-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/photo4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/photo4-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/photo4-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/photo4-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ge Wang, assistant professor of music at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, teaches a music coding lesson to students participating in the Stanford Laptop Orchestra. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That was nothing short of magical,” says Ge Wang, assistant professor of music at Stanford. “Tim was able to really find this mix where human meets machine. And in that way, it was like this dialogue. But what came out of the computer was a sound that would not come anywhere except through a computer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wang and Huberth also like when students get physical with the medium. For example, one student is programming an armband to produce sounds when he stretches or clenches his hand. Other students use Gametraks, little black boxes originally used as a video game control, that have two red retractable cables. Students connect them to their laptops and program them to produce different notes or rhythms when they pull them up, down, left or right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can rapidly prototype physical gestures, interactions and map them to sound,” Wang explains. “It enables a way to quickly explore a whole world of new sounds, interactions, and performance practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10500181\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/laptop-orchestra-5.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10500181\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/laptop-orchestra-5.jpg\" alt=\" Erica Fearon demonstrates a piece of music she composed on her laptop. She programmed the cables to make different sounds when she moved them in different directions.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/laptop-orchestra-5.jpg 2448w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/laptop-orchestra-5-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/laptop-orchestra-5-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/laptop-orchestra-5-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/laptop-orchestra-5-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/laptop-orchestra-5-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erica Fearon demonstrates a piece of music she composed on her laptop. She programmed the cables to make different sounds when she moved them in different directions. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wang says this makes for a better experience for the audience – one that is both pleasing to listen to and also interesting to watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says this is one of the ways laptop orchestra is evolving as a medium. Wang was a founding member of the first laptop orchestra, launched at Princeton University 10 years ago. He started the Stanford Laptop Orchestra, known affectionately as Slork, in 2008. Today, there are more than 70 laptop orchestras, but Wang says they’re still really just beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ten years may be a long time in computer years. To really make it into an art form, it’s still quite early,” Wang says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some more advanced laptop musicians are pushing boundaries. 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"disqusTitle": "Armenian Genocide Anniversary Sparks Fiery Art in Los Angeles",
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"content": "\u003cp>A lot of Armenian-Americans of a certain age can relate to L.A. actress and comedienne Lory Tatoulian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember when my grandfather would come and visit us, he would share a room with me and he would wake up in the middle of the night screaming,” recalls Tatoulian, sitting beside her mother, Araxy Tatoulian, in the kitchen of Lory's home in downtown Pasadena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I remember getting scared and running to my mom’s bedroom, and I didn’t understand what was happening,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lory's mother would try to calm her down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I would say, 'Lory, he has a pain, and later on when you grow up I’m going to tell you the story,' ” Araxy Tatoulian says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Araxy Tatoulian's parents survived the Armenian genocide, barely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mother was wounded by Ottoman soldiers while she fought alongside men in the Armenian resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She lived with the bullet until her death 30 years ago. The bullet is now part of a museum collection of genocide-related material in Armenia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Araxy’s father, at the age of 8, was taken in by Arab Bedouins after his family was butchered. He was later reunited with surviving family in Lebanon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10500418\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-Tatoulians.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10500418 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-Tatoulians.jpg\" alt=\" Araxy Tataloulian (L) and her daughter Lory with pictures of Araxy’s mother and father, survivors of the Armenian genocide. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1544\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-Tatoulians.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-Tatoulians-400x322.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-Tatoulians-800x643.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-Tatoulians-1440x1158.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-Tatoulians-1180x949.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-Tatoulians-960x772.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> Araxy Tataloulian (L) and her daughter, Lory, with pictures of Araxy’s mother and father, survivors of the Armenian genocide. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lory Tatoulian says her grandparents rarely spoke of their experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But you just felt it in their eyes. It was manifest in the way they raised us with this underlying anxiety that something horrible could always happen,” Lory Tatoulian says. “That was an energy that was always present.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But family life was also filled with a great deal of laughter and creativity. Her grandmother was also a stage actress and writer. Her mother, Araxy, is a teacher and poet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my story. This is a burden I also carry, and what am I to do with this pain?” Lory Tatoulian asks. “What am I to do with those stories, with those nightmares?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 200 people crowded into \u003ca title=\"Abril Books\" href=\"http://www.abrilbooks.com/\">Abril Bookstore \u003c/a>in Glendale recently to hear Araxy and Lory Tatoulian sing traditional Armenian songs and share stories and photos of their family’s survival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Araxy Tatoulian says her generation also kept stories of the genocide alive through art. But it’s younger generations who have really thrust it into the pop culture mainstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This new generation, second and third generation, they feel like there’s a still a pain,\" says Araxy Tatoulian. \"So that’s why this year is very special. It’s a sacred centennial.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of people also attended last week’s L.A. premiere of \u003ca title=\"1915: THE MOVIE\" href=\"http://www.1915themovie.com/\">\"1915: The Movie,\"\u003c/a> the first American feature film to explore how the anguish of the Armenian genocide continues to ripple across the generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One hundred years after the Armenian genocide, this rather obsessed and haunted theater director is staging a play, which he believes will bring the ghosts of this forgotten crime back to life,” co-director and screenwriter Alec Mouhibian explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it turns out that personal confrontations with the truth need to be made before the historic confrontations can be made on the stage for the play to work,” Mouhibian says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both historic and contemporary confrontations must deal with the executions, death marches and land seizures of 100 years ago. Turkey concedes atrocities were committed against Christian Armenians under Ottoman rule during World War I. But it insists they occurred during wartime, when many Turks also perished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day Turkey denies there was ever a systematic plan to wipe out Armenians, or that as many as 1.5 million Armenian men, woman and children perished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“1915” co-director Garin Hovannisian, whose father, Raffi Hovannisian, is the first foreign minister of \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia\">Armenia\u003c/a>, says that as long as the denial persists, so, too, will the protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re aware as an Armenian, you’re also aware of the fact that Turkey’s denial is just not passive denial. It’s aggressive denial,” Hovannisian says. “So the battle is ongoing, and that’s why I think we have no opportunity to back down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the loudest voices in the call for genocide recognition is the Grammy Award-winning L.A. metal band \u003ca title=\"System of a Down\" href=\"http://www.systemofadown.com/\">System of a Down\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All four members are also descendants of Armenian genocide survivors. This week System of a Down wrapped up an international tour commemorating the genocide’s centennial with its first-ever performance in Armenia, in a massive \u003ca title=\"System of a Down in Armenia\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYblpyVo_cc\">outdoor concert in the capital city, Yerevan. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10500460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-SOAD-Yerevan.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10500460 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-SOAD-Yerevan.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot from the web simulcast of System of a Down’s April 23 outdoor performance in Yerevan, Armenia’s capital. It was the band’s first ever performance in Armenia. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1220\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-SOAD-Yerevan.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-SOAD-Yerevan-400x254.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-SOAD-Yerevan-800x508.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-SOAD-Yerevan-1440x915.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-SOAD-Yerevan-1180x750.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-SOAD-Yerevan-960x610.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen shot from the web simulcast of System of a Down’s April 23 outdoor performance in Yerevan, Armenia’s capital. It was the band’s first-ever performance in Armenia. \u003ccite>(System of a Down)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The important thing is justice,” said vocalist Serj Tankian, speaking about the band’s 20-year crusade in a video statement at the start of its \"Wake up the Souls\" tour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone killed my family and burned my house down and I’m running after them for 100 years, you have to have incrimination, you have to courts involved, etc,” Tankian says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An online campaign launched this year by Glendale rapper R-Mean to raise awareness of the genocide sums it up in its slogan: \"\u003ca title=\"R-Mean Open Wounds video\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qDVkXKfm1M\">Our Wounds Are Still Open\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Open wounds is also the theme of a street mural painted last year in L.A.’s Little Armenia neighborhood by artist Arutyun Gozukuchikyan, who goes by the name \u003ca title=\"ArtViaArt\" href=\"http://www.artviaart.com/\">ArtViaArt\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mural shows a forearm sliced open by a dagger, the year 1915 exposed beneath the skin. \"Our Wounds are Still Open\" is painted in letters that look as if they were carved into the concrete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As for why and what difference this will make, it’s just documenting,” Gozukuchikyan says. “I don’t know what the next generation will do, but you’re kind of just painting history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10500461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-ArtG.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10500461 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-ArtG.jpg\" alt=\"Arutyun Gozukuchikyan otherwise known as ArtViaArt and his recent street mural in L.A.’s Little Armenia commemorating the Armenian genocide. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-ArtG.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-ArtG-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-ArtG-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-ArtG-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-ArtG-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-ArtG-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arutyun Gozukuchikyan, otherwise known as ArtViaArt, and his recent street mural in L.A.’s Little Armenia commemorating the Armenian genocide. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A second mural completed a few months ago shows an elderly Armenian woman, Gozukuchikyan’s grandmother, her mouth bound with a cloth that's again inscribed with the year 1915.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gozukuchikyan says a lot of older Armenians were hesitant to ever talk about the genocide, let alone to protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This generation’s different, this generation’s stepping up,” Gozukuchikyan says. “This is our way of saying: No one wants to recognize this? We’ll recognize it ourselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gozukuchikyan says he’s done with the genocide as a subject, for now anyway. All he could say is right up there on the walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a sentiment that “1915” co-director Garvin Hovannissian can relate to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we were making this film I’d always been thinking of April 24 as our last chance of telling the world what happened to us,” Hovannissian says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it’s really the first time that many people are going to hear about (the genocide). And that’s another way of saying our work and struggle are still ahead of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And maybe through a film, song or street mural, the Armenian genocide will remain burnished in people’s memories for another hundred years.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A lot of Armenian-Americans of a certain age can relate to L.A. actress and comedienne Lory Tatoulian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember when my grandfather would come and visit us, he would share a room with me and he would wake up in the middle of the night screaming,” recalls Tatoulian, sitting beside her mother, Araxy Tatoulian, in the kitchen of Lory's home in downtown Pasadena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I remember getting scared and running to my mom’s bedroom, and I didn’t understand what was happening,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lory's mother would try to calm her down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I would say, 'Lory, he has a pain, and later on when you grow up I’m going to tell you the story,' ” Araxy Tatoulian says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Araxy Tatoulian's parents survived the Armenian genocide, barely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mother was wounded by Ottoman soldiers while she fought alongside men in the Armenian resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She lived with the bullet until her death 30 years ago. The bullet is now part of a museum collection of genocide-related material in Armenia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Araxy’s father, at the age of 8, was taken in by Arab Bedouins after his family was butchered. He was later reunited with surviving family in Lebanon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10500418\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-Tatoulians.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10500418 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-Tatoulians.jpg\" alt=\" Araxy Tataloulian (L) and her daughter Lory with pictures of Araxy’s mother and father, survivors of the Armenian genocide. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1544\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-Tatoulians.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-Tatoulians-400x322.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-Tatoulians-800x643.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-Tatoulians-1440x1158.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-Tatoulians-1180x949.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-Tatoulians-960x772.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> Araxy Tataloulian (L) and her daughter, Lory, with pictures of Araxy’s mother and father, survivors of the Armenian genocide. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lory Tatoulian says her grandparents rarely spoke of their experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But you just felt it in their eyes. It was manifest in the way they raised us with this underlying anxiety that something horrible could always happen,” Lory Tatoulian says. “That was an energy that was always present.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But family life was also filled with a great deal of laughter and creativity. Her grandmother was also a stage actress and writer. Her mother, Araxy, is a teacher and poet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my story. This is a burden I also carry, and what am I to do with this pain?” Lory Tatoulian asks. “What am I to do with those stories, with those nightmares?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 200 people crowded into \u003ca title=\"Abril Books\" href=\"http://www.abrilbooks.com/\">Abril Bookstore \u003c/a>in Glendale recently to hear Araxy and Lory Tatoulian sing traditional Armenian songs and share stories and photos of their family’s survival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Araxy Tatoulian says her generation also kept stories of the genocide alive through art. But it’s younger generations who have really thrust it into the pop culture mainstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This new generation, second and third generation, they feel like there’s a still a pain,\" says Araxy Tatoulian. \"So that’s why this year is very special. It’s a sacred centennial.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of people also attended last week’s L.A. premiere of \u003ca title=\"1915: THE MOVIE\" href=\"http://www.1915themovie.com/\">\"1915: The Movie,\"\u003c/a> the first American feature film to explore how the anguish of the Armenian genocide continues to ripple across the generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One hundred years after the Armenian genocide, this rather obsessed and haunted theater director is staging a play, which he believes will bring the ghosts of this forgotten crime back to life,” co-director and screenwriter Alec Mouhibian explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it turns out that personal confrontations with the truth need to be made before the historic confrontations can be made on the stage for the play to work,” Mouhibian says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both historic and contemporary confrontations must deal with the executions, death marches and land seizures of 100 years ago. Turkey concedes atrocities were committed against Christian Armenians under Ottoman rule during World War I. But it insists they occurred during wartime, when many Turks also perished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day Turkey denies there was ever a systematic plan to wipe out Armenians, or that as many as 1.5 million Armenian men, woman and children perished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“1915” co-director Garin Hovannisian, whose father, Raffi Hovannisian, is the first foreign minister of \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia\">Armenia\u003c/a>, says that as long as the denial persists, so, too, will the protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re aware as an Armenian, you’re also aware of the fact that Turkey’s denial is just not passive denial. It’s aggressive denial,” Hovannisian says. “So the battle is ongoing, and that’s why I think we have no opportunity to back down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the loudest voices in the call for genocide recognition is the Grammy Award-winning L.A. metal band \u003ca title=\"System of a Down\" href=\"http://www.systemofadown.com/\">System of a Down\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All four members are also descendants of Armenian genocide survivors. This week System of a Down wrapped up an international tour commemorating the genocide’s centennial with its first-ever performance in Armenia, in a massive \u003ca title=\"System of a Down in Armenia\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYblpyVo_cc\">outdoor concert in the capital city, Yerevan. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10500460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-SOAD-Yerevan.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10500460 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-SOAD-Yerevan.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot from the web simulcast of System of a Down’s April 23 outdoor performance in Yerevan, Armenia’s capital. 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It was the band’s first-ever performance in Armenia. \u003ccite>(System of a Down)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The important thing is justice,” said vocalist Serj Tankian, speaking about the band’s 20-year crusade in a video statement at the start of its \"Wake up the Souls\" tour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone killed my family and burned my house down and I’m running after them for 100 years, you have to have incrimination, you have to courts involved, etc,” Tankian says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An online campaign launched this year by Glendale rapper R-Mean to raise awareness of the genocide sums it up in its slogan: \"\u003ca title=\"R-Mean Open Wounds video\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qDVkXKfm1M\">Our Wounds Are Still Open\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Open wounds is also the theme of a street mural painted last year in L.A.’s Little Armenia neighborhood by artist Arutyun Gozukuchikyan, who goes by the name \u003ca title=\"ArtViaArt\" href=\"http://www.artviaart.com/\">ArtViaArt\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mural shows a forearm sliced open by a dagger, the year 1915 exposed beneath the skin. \"Our Wounds are Still Open\" is painted in letters that look as if they were carved into the concrete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As for why and what difference this will make, it’s just documenting,” Gozukuchikyan says. “I don’t know what the next generation will do, but you’re kind of just painting history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10500461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-ArtG.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10500461 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-ArtG.jpg\" alt=\"Arutyun Gozukuchikyan otherwise known as ArtViaArt and his recent street mural in L.A.’s Little Armenia commemorating the Armenian genocide. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-ArtG.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-ArtG-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-ArtG-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-ArtG-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-ArtG-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/AG-ArtG-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arutyun Gozukuchikyan, otherwise known as ArtViaArt, and his recent street mural in L.A.’s Little Armenia commemorating the Armenian genocide. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A second mural completed a few months ago shows an elderly Armenian woman, Gozukuchikyan’s grandmother, her mouth bound with a cloth that's again inscribed with the year 1915.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gozukuchikyan says a lot of older Armenians were hesitant to ever talk about the genocide, let alone to protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This generation’s different, this generation’s stepping up,” Gozukuchikyan says. “This is our way of saying: No one wants to recognize this? 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This week we’re launching a new series called “Between Homelands.” We’ve teamed up with students from USC Annenberg’s School for Communication and Journalism. They're bringing us stories of people living in California who have come from afar, or who were born in the U.S. but feel like cultural foreigners.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>April 24 marks the centennial of the massacre of nearly 1.5 million Armenians that caused thousands of others to flee what is now Turkey. Many refer to this as the Armenian genocide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Los Angeles is home to the largest population of Armenians in the U.S. While their communities continue to thrive, Western Armenian, the dialect they brought with them, is in severe danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/202438862\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hratch Sepetjian teaches at \u003ca class=\"pseudolink annotate\" href=\"http://www.agbumds.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=74461&type=u\" target=\"_blank\">AGBU Manoogian-Demirdjian School\u003c/a>, a private Armenian school in Los Angeles. 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"content": "\u003cp>“Hard work, low pay, miserable conditions, and more!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the actual motto for the California Conservation Corps, the state program that puts young adults to work in emergency response, park improvements and fire protection. In Marin, many corps members — known affectionately as “C’s” – do hard physical work building and maintaining the world-class trails in places like Point Reyes, Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the young people burn thousands of calories a day, food plays a crucial role for a CCC crew, and their menu has barely changed since the ’30s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/201327335″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hiking a couple miles up a wooded path, 20-year-old Willy Parker shows me the huge drainage area he and the rest of the crew are shoring up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’ll last for a couple hundred years,” he tells me. “I think that’s pretty awesome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re on a section of trail near Devil’s Gulch Camp in West Marin. I’m trying to understand this puzzle of huge rocks that crew members maneuver to fill a huge hole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker tells me we’re looking at about 30 rocks, each as heavy as 100 pounds. Crew members roll rocks down the trail and work in teams, using long metal poles to place them correctly. They mark and chisel the rocks to get the perfect size, so they’ll fit snugly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They all have to be contacting, one edge to another edge,” says Parker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10491691\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 495px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10491691 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-800x633.jpg\" alt=\"California Conservation Corps members, “Cs” for short, roll rocks as heavy as 500 pounds to their work area, set them into place and chisel them for a snug fit.\" width=\"495\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-800x633.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-400x317.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-1440x1140.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-1180x934.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-768x608.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-320x253.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Conservation Corps members, “C’s” for short, roll rocks as heavy as 500 pounds to their work area, set them into place and chisel them for a snug fit. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s to support the tens of thousands of hikers, mountain bikers and horseback riders expected to use this trail. If you hike this trail in a year or two, Parker says, you won’t be able to see the work that went on here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over time, the dirt, the leaves will fall over it to make it look natural,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker is part of what’s called a spike crew: Members will be working this site off and on for over a year. They spend eight days working, then six days at a residential center near Lake Tahoe. There they get time off and take classes. Like Parker, many work on their GEDs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While these corps members prod heavy stones into place, Samantha Pack and Gabino Lopez have left the trail early to report to KP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“KP stands for kitchen patrol, or kitchen police as we call it,” says Lopez. “It’s the person whose duty it is to take care of the kitchen and camp, all the chores like start the fire, clean around the kitchen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kitchen’s really clean, but it’s not much to look at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, it’s an old burlap tent,” says Pack. “It’s set up with our two stoves, both powered by propane. Two chests are filled with our pots, pans, dishes, and the top is our serving table. It’s a tight space!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez is getting creative, chopping onions and slicing oranges and lemon for the fish they’re serving the 20 crew members and two supervisors. “For us KP’s, we try to make something delicious, just to make the crew feel like they’re at their house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each year, the California Conservation Corps hires about 3,000 men and women between 18 and 25. Each has his or her own reasons for joining, but many here, like Samantha Pack, told me they needed some direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody has their different problems, but I was very defiant,” she says. “I didn’t know what I wanted. I was always taught to run from my problems. When I started to realize that running wasn’t getting anything done, my mentality changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10491694\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10491694\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"Gabino Lopez, left, and Samantha Pack hard at work on 'kitchen patrol.' \" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin-800x568.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin-400x284.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin-1440x1023.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin-1180x838.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin-768x546.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin-320x227.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabino Lopez, left, and Samantha Pack hard at work on ‘kitchen patrol.’ \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An alumna told her about the program, and the Bakersfield native found she really loves hands-on trail work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had never done any labor at all. I grew up not going to school, sitting on the couch,” Pack says. “Then all of a sudden being told, ‘Dig this hole, move this there,’ it really gave me what I guess I always needed. Not only that discipline, but having that urgency to get things done the right way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like we’re a big machine as a group, and the KP’s are the batteries to the machine,” says Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since they’re out here for more than a week, the food for each meal is planned and packed ahead. KP’s can use ingredients creatively, but they have to consider coming meals. Lopez pulls out the eight-day food calendar, labeled for breakfast and dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, we’re having fish fillet, rice pilaf, carrots and salad,” he explains. “Day Four, we’re having pork chops, red potatoes, with broccoli and salad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few miles away, in his office on Mount Tamalpais, I meet Victor Bjelajac, who oversees maintenance of state parks in Marin. He’s flipping through pages in a binder, looking at old food orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”fSu9GIDgULAADpkMNYluvfByflKgIFTJ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a group of Civilian Conservation Corps members that were working at Mount Tamalpais. This one was from 1939.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And guess what? It sounds a lot like what the KP crew is making tonight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For supper, there was fillet of sole, mashed potatoes, creamed carrots, bread, butter,” Bjelajac reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The similarities in the menu aren’t sentimental. Camp food has always had to fuel large groups for hard labor. Launched in 1933 as a response to the Great Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps employed millions of young men, many of them veterans, to work on remote, government-owned lands — planting trees, building roadways, updating parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marin, they built trails and camps and a beautiful amphitheater, still in use today. The Corps accepted only men, and the crews were segregated by race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems inconceivable today when you look at California Conservation Corps,” says Bjelajac.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CCC is about a quarter women, and very diverse. But he says what the two have in common is young people, doing important work as a group for the public good. That, and the food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of the culture that’s built around a camp gets built around meals,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10491700\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10491700\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV-800x655.jpg\" alt=\"Gabino Lopez tends the fire, also known as the camp TV.\" width=\"800\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV-800x655.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV-400x327.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV-1440x1178.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV-1180x966.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV-768x628.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV-320x262.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabino Lopez tends the fire, also known as the camp TV. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back at camp, Gabino Lopez tends a fire as his fellow corps members start to come off the trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would honestly rather sit at the fire and watch it for three hours than sit at home on a couch and just watch TV,” Lopez says. “I’d rather bathe in a creek than shower in a bathroom. It makes me feel more alive, I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he’s happy pan-frying fish and sauteing carrots in a tent. Willy Parker says that after working all day and hiking down, KP is a life-saver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just to get to camp, and the food is smelling good, and everybody just be walking around the KP tent ready to eat,” he says. “So it’s pretty good, we got that right there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of this crew, Parker never went camping or fishing as a kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Camping is amazing,” he says with a laugh. “It’s amazing. I hadn’t done none of that till I joined the CCC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just about trying new things. Parker has a 2-year-old daughter at home in Sacramento, and he says being a C gives him purpose, and pride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me, I feel like it’s a great experience,” he says. “I can bring my daughter up here when she gets older to understand, and be like, ‘I built this.’ It just opens my heart and my mind. 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They mark and chisel the rocks to get the perfect size, so they’ll fit snugly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They all have to be contacting, one edge to another edge,” says Parker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10491691\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 495px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10491691 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-800x633.jpg\" alt=\"California Conservation Corps members, “Cs” for short, roll rocks as heavy as 500 pounds to their work area, set them into place and chisel them for a snug fit.\" width=\"495\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-800x633.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-400x317.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-1440x1140.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-1180x934.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-768x608.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-320x253.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Conservation Corps members, “C’s” for short, roll rocks as heavy as 500 pounds to their work area, set them into place and chisel them for a snug fit. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s to support the tens of thousands of hikers, mountain bikers and horseback riders expected to use this trail. If you hike this trail in a year or two, Parker says, you won’t be able to see the work that went on here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over time, the dirt, the leaves will fall over it to make it look natural,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker is part of what’s called a spike crew: Members will be working this site off and on for over a year. They spend eight days working, then six days at a residential center near Lake Tahoe. There they get time off and take classes. 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