“Liminal: Coastal Science in Sacred Music: a concert & symposium by The Coastal Conservatory” (Institute of Sacred Music)

Liminal: Coastal Science in Sacred Music is a concert and symposium featuring the Coastal Conservatory with EcoSono Ensemble and Yale University special guests.

 

This event will be held in Harkness Hall’s Sudler Recital Hall, 100 Wall Street, New Haven, CT.

 

Integrating eco-acoustic performance with intellectual exchange across science and ethics, the Coastal Conservatory creates immersive ways of listening to coastal change. In this concert, EcoSono Ensemble will perform music made with data produced by the Virginia Coast Reserve Long-term Ecological Research site about sea level rise, oyster reef restoration, shorebird extinction, and sea grass meadows. In symposial reflections, scholars and scientists will consider how music made from sonified data and with ecological relations may be heard as a new sacred music of the environment. Co-directed by faculty from music, environmental sciences, and religious studies from the University of Virginia, the Conservatory has been recognized by the Mellon Foundation, NSF, and NPR for its integrative way into relations by which coasts are being transformed. This event includes Yale students and faculty in live performance and scholarly conversation. 

 

Speakers and performers include Matthew Burtner, Karen McGlathery, Willis Jenkins and the EcoSono Ensemble.

 

EcoSono Ensemble:

 

Lisa Edwards-Burrs, voice

I-Jen Fang, percussion

Kelly Sulick, flute

Kevin Davis, cello

Free and open to the public.

 

Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.