"Sonic art & the reverberations of the surrounding world"
"Sonic art & the reverberations of the surrounding world"
Dear Saturnites,=20
I thought some of you might be captivated=20 by the topics in this seminar. & if nobody=20 on the panel mentions Sun Ra, certainly=20 many in the audience should!=20
In love, music, & haste=20 (my usual states of being),=20 Margaret Davis, Editor & Publisher,=20 "Art Attack!,"=20 the newsletter for & about =20 liberation musicians in NYC, =20 on the Web at=20 http://www.jazznewyork.org .=20 <<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>>=20
----- Original Message -----=20 From: Marta Ulvaeus=20 To: Margaret Davis=20 Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 11:16 AM Subject: The New Ecology of Culture:=20 A Terra Nova Evening
When: Friday, May 11th, 2001, 7 pm.
Where: at the CUNY Graduate Center,=20 365 Fifth Ave. at 34th St., Manhattan
To register, call 212 817 8215 or visit=20 http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp
$12 admission, $5 for students.
Come celebrate the release of three new=20 Terra Nova books with a cast of exciting=20 environmentalists, writers, musicians, and artists.
Terra Nova books aim to show how=20 environmental issues are cultural matters, not=20 only science or policy concerns. In a flurry of=20 activity, we are releasing not one but THREE=20 this spring:
The World and the Wild (University of Arizona=20 Press), which demonstrates that wilderness has=20 an important place in the environmental thought=20 and policy of any nation, industrial or developing.=20 With contributions both evocative and pragmatic,=20 this collection breaks new ground in global=20 environmentalism, presenting stories from Nepal,=20 Brazil, Chile, Borneo, Papua New Guinea, Mexico,=20 Kenya, South Africa, India, and the United States.
The Book of Music and Nature (Wesleyan University=20 Press), a collection of essays, stories, and recordings=20 on the link between sonic art and the reverberations=20 of the surrounding world, including ideas of John Cage,=20 Brian Eno, Babenz=E9l=E9 Pygmies, and the Kaluli people=20 of Papua New Guinea. Ranging from the ancient to=20 the futuristic, with the sounds of rivers, deserts, insects,=20 birds, and the forest floor, the selections on the=20 accompanying CD explore the many ways music and=20 nature can engage and define one another.
Writing on Water (MIT Press), an anthology of=20 stories, poems, essays, and photography that reflect=20 on the human encounter with this most essential of=20 elements. From the politics of watershed to the=20 magnetic memories of sea turtles, from Leonardo=20 da Vinci to Octavio Paz, from death at a hot spring=20 to the practicalities of liquidation, we see how water=20 in its myriad manifestations has inspired all kinds=20 of creative acts.
THE EVENT=20
Each person will speak or perform for five=20 minutes or so in this unique gathering of creative=20 minds committed to saving the earth in imaginative,=20 positive ways-kind of an eco-vaudeville show,=20 inspired by the Utne Reader's One Hundred=20 Visionaries event at Town Hall in 1995.
... [cut] =20 Evan Eisenberg, author,=20 THE ECOLOGY OF EDEN Amelia Amon, solar designer Andrew Light, director, NYU program in=20 Conservation Education Jim Motavalli, editor, E Magazine, author,=20 FORWARD DRIVE Lisa Westberg, Casa del Sol urban eco-center,=20 Bronx, NY William Lynn, The Hastings Center Sean O'Grady, author, GRAVE GOODS Amy Lipton, director, Ecoartspace Kim Heismann, director, thinkpop.org Peter Warshall, editor, WHOLE EARTH REVIEW Chris Funkhouser, poet, editor, NEWARK REVIEW Tyler Volk, author of METAPATTERNS and=20 GAIA'S BODY Edie Meidav, author, THE FAR FIELD Eric Salzman, ornithology writer, music theater=20 composer Jamie Cloud, director, Sustainability Education=20 Center Rafi Zabor, author, THE BEAR COMES HOME Mitch Thomashow, REFLECTIVE ENVIRON-=20 MENTALIST Melissa Nelson, Native American eco-activist,=20 director, THE CULTURAL CONSERVANCY Renee Lertzman, writer J.P. Harpignies, environmental activist, NY=20 Open Center Chip Blake, editor, ORION Alex Matthiessen, Riverkeeper Mark Rudman, poet David Rothenberg and musicians ... [cut]