For the past two decades, the Audubon Center at Debs Park has shown itself to be leading example for how conservation organizations can work within our cities to cultivate a deeper relationship between people and place. Through monthly hikes, restoration days, bird walks, field trips, move nights, community festivals, and hosting gatherings like these each and every month, we’re so grateful for the humans of the Audubon Center and the advocacy they hold between both local culture and native ecology.
Def Sound is one of the great constructivists of Los Angeles. Through music, activism, education, and community building we regularly see Def cultivating the world that we deserve to inhabit and perpetuating only the most exemplary of vibes. In the past few months they’ve dropped two essential records, love letters to this city, and it’s a great to honor to host Def this month underneath the Peppercorn Tree.
Tru is one of the great emerging sound artists and community educators of Los Angeles. With a mesmerizing level of vulnerability and heart, his work fuses experimental arrangements with storytelling, technology, and social history. It’s always a gift to be around Tru and we are enormously looking forward to seeing how he comes through this afternoon.
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Donation-based & all ages! We just ask that y’all leave the pups at home today as to not disrupt the Audubon Center’s ongoing habitat restoration efforts.
Def Sound (pronouns they/them) is a Black Afro-Caribbean conceptual word artist born and based in South Central LA. Def is a postbinary contemporary hip-hop artist, producer, poet, educator and award-winning academic. Def is Grammy nominiated for their work as a producer on aja monet’s debut album ‘when the poems do what they do’.
Def’s work as a poet has been included in Saul Williams' Anthology CHORUS, while their music has been featured in ABC’s Grownish. Def is also UC Irvine Alumni and a recipient of the Lindon W. Barrett award from the school of humanities
Def is currently a professor teaching Sonic Collage, Hip Hop and Black Critical Theory at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Def’s latest album FROM SOUTH CENTRAL 2 THE WORLD is out on vinyl and all streaming platforms
Tru (Philip Patrick Harper) is a first-generation Belizean-American artist from Leimert Park, CA. Drawing from his cultural heritage, Tru’s work intersects sound art, performance, and multimedia installation.
He has collaborated with institutions such as Center Theatre Group, USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, LA Dance Project, Ballet BC and Netherlands Dance Theatre. His explorations in sound have been featured in major spaces like the Mark Taper Forum, The Greek Theatre and The Whitney Museum. Tru’s practice centers on the fusion of experimental sound with storytelling, technology, and social history.