Ecomusics & Ecomusicologies 2014: Dialogues

Paul Winter presents an “Adventures in Sound Play” workshop and also a concert as part of the University of North Carolina’s third annual global Ecomusicologies conference. Musicians, scholars and activists from across the US and from Finland, UK, Australia and Canada will gather at UNC Asheville Oct. 2-6 for Ecomusics & Ecomusicologies 2014: Dialogues – five days of concerts and workshops connecting music and ecological awareness.

Dialogues—verbal, musical and ecological—are keys to our interconnected world, offering up renewable meanings while infusing life with reciprocity. In the spirit of dialogue, Ecomusics and Ecomusicologies 2014 invites scholars, musicians and activists to trade ideas and disciplinary perspectives on the campus of UNC Asheville, at the heart of a musically and politically vibrant, environmentally conscious community.

The multi-day event will include panel discussions, concerts, soundwalks, workshops, and outings. Six internationally renowned keynote speakers, representing a range of interests and expertise, will convene panels responding to musical collaboration, improvisation, green industry practices, acoustic ecology, ecopoetics, soundscapes, sustainability, contemporary composition, musical activism and other fields. Concerts, sound installations, and alternative format performances and on- and off-campus will round out the program. These include an appearance by seven-time Grammy® winner Paul Winter; a performance of Pulitzer Prize winning composer John Luther Adams’s “outdoor” composition Inuksuit; the Chicago-based Fry Street String Quartet’s multimedia Crossroads Project; a workshop led by Moog associate Dr. Wayne Kirby and Roy “Futureman” Wooten; an installation by Greensboro’s Invisible; a performance by New York’s EDM duo The Mast; and a screening of the critically acclaimed film Musicwood.