Proposals are already being accepted for presentations and musical compositions at Sound in the Land 2014 – Music and the Environment, a Festival/Conference of Mennonites and Music, June 5 – 8, 2014 at Conrad Grebel University College/UW.
Expect concerts (choral, instrumental, soundscape, folk/jazz), workshops, papers, nature walks, and singing! Keynote speaker R. Murray Schafer will help us explore ways of hearing the earth and listening to the environment. We seek proposals that present new insights in ecological understandings of music and sound. As the 50th event of Grebel’s 50th Anniversary, Sound in the Land brings together musicians, environmentalists and writers into fields of ‘creation care’ and ecomusicology, studying sound from an environmentally ethical basis, consistent with long-standing Mennonite values. Check our website for more info: https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/sound-land-2014