EcoSono
Institute & Ensemble
The Global Ecoacoustic Virtuosity Initiative
World Premiere of “EcoAcoustic Concert for Two Trumpets, Ensemble and Sonic Geography”
Composed by Matthew Burtner
Glen Whitehead & Cuong Vu trumpets, Peak FreQuency Music Festival, April 2015
Founder & Director
Matthew Burtner
Director of Performance
Glen Whitehead
Sonic Landscapes
A groundbreaking course at UCCS with EcoSono founder Matthew Burtner, UCCS Geography Professor Brandon Vogt and Glen Whitehead.
The EcoSono Institute has been responsible for a few profound breakthroughs in my musical life. I am truly honored to become a part of this wonderful organization. I hope to help expand its message, scope, and vision. This important institute pointed me towards invisible doors that were already open, but barely perceptible. As musicians we imagine ourselves as creative beings engaging with the world in all its profound parts. Yet, for the many dimensions of music created by the human world, we often cannot– for the life of us– truly engage with our most vital resource– the Earth. Musicians have a substantial role to play in the quest for environmental awareness, a sustainable future, and creating boundless music from systems often designed to contain and constrain. Through Matthew Burner’s inspired vision the EcoSono Institute uniquely carves new pathways with these guiding principles to lead composers, performers, and improvisers across cultural, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries to engage with the natural wonders of our planet. – Glen Whitehead
The EcoSono Ensemble creates interactive earth music with a collective of diverse musicians, artists, scientists and activists from around the globe. As a branch of the EcoSono Institute, this ensemble pursues commonalities between interdisciplinary music creation and ecological awareness often blurring the lines between installation, field research and performance. They are equally at home performing in deep forests, wind-swept shores, urban landscapes, galleries, festivals and clubs, and in the finest concert venues across the globe. EcoSono has toured across the U.S., Canada, Korea, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand and Mexico.
>
about
The Global Ecoacoustic Virtuosity Initiative, founded by Dr. Glen Whitehead, is a long-term project that seeks collaborations with musicians, artists, scholars and scientists working in environmental sound and music related contexts in order to build cross-disciplinary relationships for the production of new ideas, research and artistic work. this broadly defined goal envisions a new performance based virtuosity within a larger transdisciplinary field that engages environmental languages, sources, influences, realities, technologies and materials adding to the discourse to such fields as ecoacoustics, acoustic ecology, composition, improvisation and others across the arts and sciences. This initiative has resulted in residencies, tours and concerts in Korea, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Mexico, Canada and across the United States produced collaborations with scores of people, institutions and organizations.
Check the EcoSono Institute website for updates and info!
www.ecosono.org