Event: 'THE GREAT ANIMAL ORCHESTRA: A PERFORMANCE AND DIALOGUE IN SOUNDSCAPE & POETRY' Print
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Date: Thursday, September 27, 2012 At 07:30 pm
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Location: Harvard, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall

Free and open to the public.

THE GREAT ANIMAL ORCHESTRA: A PERFORMANCE AND DIALOGUE IN SOUNDSCAPE & POETRY with Bernie Krause & Jonathan Skinner

Natural soundscapes, biophonies and geophonies are a narrative of place, a basis for exploring our music and language. How does poetry, in its turn, engage the rhythms, sonorities, and signals inherent within the structure of soundscapes? In performance (of recorded soundscapes and poetic responses) and in dialogue, around concepts about natural and poetic sound, Bernie Krause (author of The Great Animal Orchestra) and Jonathan Skinner (poet and founding editor of Ecopoetics) will tease out some questions and answers about art’s relation to the endangered realms of cross-species communication.
Co-sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room, the Sensory Ethnography Lab and the Film Study Center.