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Left Coast Reflections on Music and Nature Podcast Episode Live on Spotify & Apple Podcasts
ABOUT THE EPISODE
Composer Ryan Suleiman talks with members of Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Anna Presler (violin/artistic director), Tanya Tomkins (cello), and Stacey Pelinka (flute) about their collaboration with composer Clarice Assad on “Lemuria,” about ancient mythical people and their work on Crumb’s timeless Vox Balanae. They get philosophical about the question of what does an artist do in times like these (should one become an activist?) and speculate about the influence of soundscapes on musicians in past centuries versus now. Anna reflects on her walks in the Berkeley hills and we talk about birds, who evidently learn better from their teachers than from pre-recorded songs.
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ABOUT THE PODCAST
What does it mean for one’s music to be inspired or informed by nature? How do musicians engage with nature in their own work? What does this word nature even mean?
In this interview series, composer Ryan Suleiman (Ph.D.) talks with composers and performers about the role of nature in the work they do generally and asks what the role of artists is in our troubled times.
On an aesthetic level, music provides a crucial space for us to reflect on the beauty around us and try to grapple with very deep and sometimes troubling philosophical questions that face us as individuals and as a civilization.
Inspired by the heroic contributions of others at the onset of the pandemic in 2020, Ryan hopes that sharing ideas and conversations about how musicians engage with nature will help inspire others to use their skills to help us find a way out of this crisis of our relationship with nature.
All visual art is by Sakurako Kanemitsu.
