Sound in the Land - Music and Environment, proposal deadline March 15

[Carol Ann Weaver]

Proposal Deadline:  March 15, 2014
Sound in the Land 2014 – Music and the Environment, Festival/Conference, June 5 - 8, 2014 at Conrad Grebel University College/UW https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/sound-land-2014
This festival with multiple performance and concerts and conference with papers and presentations exploring “ecomusicology” from various perspectives, locally and globally, will bring together composers, speakers, performers, sonic artists and writers from Korea, South Africa, Europe, USA, and Canada.  Keynote speakers are R. Murray Schafer, well-known Canadian composer/founder of World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, and Gus Mills, foremost South African environmentalist/researcher.   Musicians and environmentalists will be in dialogue, as we discover new ways to listen to the earth and create musical and verbal responses to the planet in this stressed time of climate change, overwhelming human population, and shrinking natural habitats.  Renowned Korean media artist Cecilia Kim will present her multi-media Earth Songs.  Commissioned works by Larry Warkentin (orchestra), Joanne Bender (children's choir), and Bryan Moyer Suderman (folk) will be premiered.  Inter-Mennonite Children’s Choir, Rockway Collegiate Combo, Tactus Vocal Ensemble, Festival Choir, Grebel Gamelan, First Nations Choir, Waterloo Chamber Players Orchestra and Mennofolk performers will present concerts of nature-themed music, balanced with Dawn Chorus sound walks, soundscapes, outdoor performances, and papers on rural and natural soundscapes, animal and bird calls, environmental music from North America, Bali, Paraguay, Estonia, Korea, Africa, and much more.  Sound in the Land will provide new ways for us to listen to and learn about the sounds and the music of our environment, and how we can enter into a larger dialogue with each other and with other dwellers on Planet Earth.  The conference welcomes proposals for papers/presentations from professors and students alike.  Proposals sent to caweaver at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:caweaver at uwaterloo.ca> are accepted until March 15.
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