Sounds Current
a Del Sol Podcast

Nominated for the 2024 Tribeca Festival’s

Independent Audio Nonfiction Award!

Season 1: ANGEL ISLAND

available June 2024

How does a string quartet help build community from Chinese immigrant poetry carved into detention-center walls on Angel Island? Strip away layers of paint - and shame - and let their words sing out after 100 years of silence.

…..Following Del Sol’s journey with Huang Ruo’s ANGEL ISLAND Oratorio

Producer: Andrea Klunder & The Creative Impostor Studios

Executive Producer: Donald Fineberg & Andrea Fellows Finberg

credit: Kabby Studio

Andrea Klunder, Producer
The Creative Impostor Studios

credit: RJ Muna

Charlton Lee, Host

credit: Chloe Jimenez

The Quartet, Co-hosts

 
 

Season 1 Guests:

Members of the Del Sol Quartet

Huang Ruo, Composer 

Ed Tepporn, Executive Director, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation

Genny Lim, poet, co-author of  Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island 1910-1940, part of the Last Hoisan Poets, Angel Island descendant

Andi Wong, project coordinator #artsed4all, community coordinator for Angel Island Project, Angel Island Descendant

Casey Dexter-Lee, Angel Island State Park Interpreter

Sid Chen, vocalist, Volti

Emiko Ono, Director of the Performing Arts Program, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Susan Moffat, Creative Director, Future Histories Lab at University of California, Berkeley 

Senior Master Sergeant. Taylor Armstrong, Enlisted Conductor, Pianist, and Superintendent of US Air Force Band Singing Sergeants

Matthew Ozawa, Director of New York premiere production of “ANGEL ISLAND”  with Beth Morrison Projects as part of the Prototype Festival / Next Wave Festival co-produced by  Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)

Performers & Audience members from the New York premiere performance

Season 1 Credits:

Project Creator: Del Sol Quartet

Producer: Andrea Klunder, The Creative Impostor Studios, Charlton Lee, Kathryn Bates, Hyeyung Sol Yoon, Ben Kreith

Editor: Andrea Klunder

Host: Charlton Lee

Story Editor & Sound Design: Andrea Klunder

Technical Director & Post Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz

Field Producer & Recording Engineer: Kathryn Bates

Executive Producers: Andrea Fellows Fineberg, Don Fineberg

Graphic Design: Felicia Lee

Additional Production Support: Verena Lee, Alex Riegler, Lisa Widder