Department of Music

Coastal Futures Festival 2024
Produced by the University of Virginia’s Coastal Conservatory​
December 6, 2-5pm, University of Virginia (UVA), Charlottesville, VA
Contemplative Commons, UVA
403 Emmet St South, Charlottesville, VA

UVA’s Coastal Conservatory (http://www.coastalconservatory.org) presents the Coastal Futures Festival on December 6, 2024, an annual event blending environmental humanities, music and science. This year the festival will offer three sessions between 2pm and 5pm at the new Contemplative Commons building on Emmett Street. One of these events will feature a first listen in the Conservatory immersive sound and light room on the building’s fourth floor!

Artist in residence David Rothenberg is an environmental sound artist, author, GRAMMY Award-winning musician, and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His Colloquium will feature performances of Six Paths to the Music of Nature, and Loon Asylum, performed by UVA graduate students in the Interactive Environmental Media seminar and special guests.

Research scientists from the Virginia Coast Reserve, Karen McGlathery and Max Castorani, will share breaking environmental science from the Virginia eastern shore. Mary Kuhn, Willis Jenkins and Kathleen King will present new scholarly reflections on coastal futures. Matthew Burtner will showcase the premiere of Reef Resounding, a new immersive sound work in the Conservatory on the 4^th floor. Ashlynn Manning Teng and Gabrielle Cerberville will premiere new sound artworks commissioned by the Coastal Conservatory. Finally, undergraduate students in UVA’s MICE Ensemble will perform their latest work, Immersion Groove.

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SCHEDULE

2pm
Willis Jenkins, environmental ethics
Karen McGlathery, environmental science
Kathleen King, eco-poetry
Mary Kuhn, literary scholarship
Ashlyn Manning Teng, musical performance

2:45pm
Max Castorani, environmental science
Matthew Burtner, ecoacoustics, tour of Conservatory immersive sound studio
Gabrielle Cerberville, interactive sound sculpture
MICE (Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble), musical performance

3:30pm
David Rothenberg Colloquium 
Including performances of Six Paths to the Music of Nature and Loon Asylum
Performed by students from MUSI 7450 Interactive Environmental Media
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More information at: https://www.coastalconservatory.org/coastal-futures-festival

All events are subject to change.

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