People and Place Based Notations: Liner Notes for 2+1=3

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21083/csieci.v13i1.6157

Published June 30, 2020

Considering the stakes of chronic environmental degradation, what are the roles of musicians and artistic institutions in the climate crisis? Weaving through a suite of pieces I composed for duets and landscape (2+1=3) at the Summer Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation in Québec's spectacular Gaspésie, I look into how humans/composers/improvisers, might practice music in ways that recognize and activate its ecological and environmental significance. Drawing from autoethnographic and ecomusicological frameworks, I explore how writing for (and with) people and places might afford vital ways of cohabitating and relating to the biosphere—creating an emergent/spontaneous ethics of care, listening and participation.

excerpts from Boxed Pictures

1. Turtle Feet (inspired by the Poetry of Sung Po-jen)

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2. Vowels (inspired by this asknature.com)

words sung in "You, Beloved, Neutral, Challenges, All"

Ben Finley