Our goal
Our goal is to create a worldwide community of musicians, sound artists, scientists, environmental activists, and an interested public, based on the compelling idea that environmental sound art can inspire in us an emotional involvement with the environmental issues that we face today.
Our agenda
Our agenda is:
To maintain an email listserv and forum where people interested in environmental sound can meet and exchange ideas, information, and sounds, thereby creating channels for global communication that foster worldwide community.
To create new dialogues and deepen existing ones between environmental activists, scientists, sound artists, and an interested public, thereby defining an interdisciplinary groundwork to provide contexts for environmental sounds.
To produce public events in New York City and elsewhere, exploring creative formats that mix conference, installation, performance, and a range of artist- environmentalist conversations and interchange, thereby bringing people together in an interdisciplinary setting to share a learning experience.
To support, promote, and publicize events produced by others in locations throughout the world, thereby encouraging others to produce public events and become active members of the community.
To support, promote, and publicize the work of musicians and sound artists whose work is based on environmental materials and issues, thereby disseminating ideas through the community.
To encourage and support documentation of our natural and man-made environments, including research and analysis, thereby enlarging the scope of our material resources and knowledge of the environment.
To disseminate information and materials, including CDs and books, thereby providing any member of Ear to the Earth with access to resources that may not otherwise be available.