The Ear to the Earth Festival 2008
The 2008 Ear to the Earth festival will take place from October 9 to 25 at New York Friends Meeting House, Judson Church, Chelsea Art Museum, and other venues in New York City. The details of schedules, events, and artists, are available at:
[ EMF Productions ]
Highlights of the festival include:
The launch of New York Soundscape, a multi-year preservation project that portrays New York City's personality and urban ecology in sound, with audio recordings, sound art compositions, images, and multimedia created by artists, students, and New Yorkers from all walks of life,
The world premiere of New York Big Fritz a sound art and multimedia portrayal of Times Square in New York City during a twenty-four hour period, produced in collaboration with the NYU Music Technology Program,
The New York City premiere of Francisco López' Trilogy of the Americas,
The world premiere of Alvin Curran's The Brooklyn Bridge,
The first appearance on the streets of New York of Andrea Polli's Cloud Car, a Ford Taurus spewing smoke and mist and sounds to remind us of automobile emissions,
World premieres of sound art compositions by Walter Branchi and New York artists Michael Schumacher, Miya Masaoka, Richard Lainhart, Lo Vid, and Marina Rosenfeld,
Citizen Sound, a public forum on urban noise, presented in collaboration with the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology (NYSAE),
Metropolis New York, a public forum on culture-driven city planning and architecture, organized in collaboration with New Wilderness Foundation, with Charlie Morrow, New York sound artist, Trevor Davies, founder and director of Metropolis Biennale and Laboratory in Copenhagen, Linda Lees, director and founder of Creative Cities, and other distinguished speakers,
A series of three concerts at Chelsea Art Museum with music by George Crumb, Ezequiel Vinao, Charlie Morrow, Helen Fisher, Matthew Burtner and others, with performances by So Percussion, Matthew Burtner, Madeleine Shapiro, Stephen Gosling, and many others, and
The New York City premiere of John Cage's Lecture on the Weather.
Go to the EMF Productions site for detailed information.
Contact us for reservations or for further information at eartotheearth@emf.org.
SITES
EMF :: Arts Electric :: EMF Productions :: Ear to the Earth :: CDeMusic :: EMF Media :: EMF Institute