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Concerts
Extended Worlds
Saturday, October 7, 8pm
Composers extended realworld sounds, stories, and images into evocative video and sound art. Iannis Xenakis used the sounds of smoldering charcoal in Concrète PH, David Monacchi presented video images and transforms sounds from the Tiber River in Rome, Philip Dadson performed with stones from the coast of New Zealand, Maggi Payne's video projected transform landscapes and sounds, Luc Ferrari explored the sounds of night, and Joel Chadabe presented images and sounds from New York and New Delhi ... More
Currents
Sunday, October 8, 8pm
Steven Feld discussed the global environmental issues as well as the aesthetic concepts and concerns that shape his work on water and presented four sound art compositions: about rainfall and water song in the New Guinea rainforest; sustenance and the spiritual solace of an underground water zither in Japanese Zen arts; the Black Atlantic ocean of memory at the shorelines of West African slave fort; and the rapidity of Arctic melting and end of artisanal Northern traditions connnected to environmental aesthetics ... More
Ports of Call 1
Monday, October 9, 8pm
The title of the concert was meant to suggest the relationship between a place and the sounds that identify it. Jean-Claude Risset's music was based on the sounds of the sea near Marseilles, Cécile Le Prado presented the sounds of the European Atlantic coast from Holland to Spain, and Luc Ferrari, in a musical newspaper, conveyed his travels in the American west ... More
Pioneers of Acoustic Ecology
Tuesday, October 10, 8pm
Composers Barry Truax and Hildegard Westerkamp were among the founders of the World Soundscape Project in the early 1970s at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, which gave rise to the field now known as acoustic ecology. They discussed the concepts behind acoustic ecology and introduced and discussed their works ... More
Ports of Call 2
Wednesday, October 11, 8pm
The title of the concert was meant to suggest the relationship between a place and the sounds that identify it. The idea of relating sounds to a place is also expressed in the title of a book by Pierre Mariétan - La Musique du Lieu (The Music of the Place) - that in part describes his trip to Hanoi. In this concert, Pierre Marietan discussed the 'music of Hanoi' and its function in navigating through the city in daily life. Steven Feld's music was based on bells that play roles in the culural life of European cities. Hildegard Westerkamp talked about the sounds of the raincoast of western Canada. Steven M. Miller presented a sound documentation of the Pecos River ... More
Global Mix
Thursday, October 12, 8pm
During the last decades of the 20th century, we came increasingly to view the world as a global village in which all of our lives are intertwined. That view generated a new approach to mapping the world in sound (as well as image) where all of the sounds of the world could be mixed, sampled, and heard within one composition. This concert presented several representations of that holistic view. John Cage's Williams Mix was the first musical composition to represent the whole world. Thomas Gerwin presented a new version of the Acoustic World Atlas. Robert Rowe devised an algorithm to read through the Freesound catalog of sounds from around the world. David Dunn created an imaginary ecology of sounds from around the world ... More
New Voices
Friday, October 13, 8pm
PLOrk (Princeton Laptop Orchestra) performed music expressly created for Ear to the Earth and a group of emerging composers presented their works exploring the use of sound and the environment ... More
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