Conference Schedule: RESPONSES IN MUSIC TO CLIMATE CHANGE (All times are given in Eastern Daylight Time, EDT/GMT-4) Monday, 4 October 2021Welcome and Opening RemarksMichael Lupo (The Graduate Center, CUNY) and Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie (Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation)9:00—9:10 am Keynote Address: Hearing Heat: An Anthropocene AcoustemologySteven Feld (University of New Mexico)9:20—10:35 am New Music for a Changing Climate10:50—11:30 am Sabine Feisst and Garth Paine (Arizona State University), Listening to Environmental Change: Teaching Acoustic Ecology Through John Cage’s 49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs Nicolas Donin (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique [IRCAM]), Signaling Climate Change in Music: From Data-Driven Composition to Meaningful Ambiguity Chair: David Grubbs, Brooklyn College, CUNY Voices from South America3:00—4:00 pm Beatriz Goubert (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale [RILM]), Songs for the Younger Brothers: Native Ecological Knowledge Education to Save the Water in Bogotá Juan Fernando Velasquez (University of Michigan), The Call of the Sirirí: (Post)Conflict, Avitourism, Biodiversity, and Epistemologies of Sound in Twenty–First-Century Colombia Emily Hansell Clark (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Colonialism and Climate Change: Listening to Culture and Nature in Suriname (Screening of prerecorded presentation only) Chair: Elizabeth Martin-Ruiz, The Graduate Center, CUNY Down the Mountain: A Prerecorded Presentation by John Luther Adams4:30—5:00 pm Tuesday, 5 October 2021 Audiovisual Ecocriticism: Film, Television, and Videogames10:00—11:20 am Michael Lupo (The Graduate Center, CUNY), Performing Environment: From Radiohead’s “Bloom” to the Radiohead/Zimmer Collaboration “(Ocean) Bloom” Gabrielle Cornish (University of Miami), On Posthuman Soundscapes and Nuclear Futures Karen M. Cook (University of Hartford), Playing with Fire (and Other Natural Disasters): The Sounds of Climate Change in Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Gathering Storm (2019) Revisited Chair: Jason Lee Oakes, Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) Composer Spotlight: In Conversation with Christopher TinDiscussants: Michael Lupo (New York) and Christopher Tin (Los Angeles)3:00—3:30 pm Environmental Multimediality4:00—5:00 pm Oli Jan (University of Glasgow), Le Carnaval des Animaux en Danger: A Piece Exploring the Effects of Visual Imagery and Emotional Contagion in Experimental Music Theatre Kimberley Bianca (University of Colorado, Boulder), A Camouflage Opera: Audiovisual Design for Kurtág—Attila József, Fragments Josh Wodak (Western Sydney University), Probing Anthropocene Extinction and Evolution in Popular Music (Screening of prerecorded presentation only) Chair: Martha Schulenburg, The Graduate Center, CUNY Wednesday, 6 October 2021 Politics, Pedagogy, and Activism10:00—11:20 am María Edurne Zuazu (Cornell University), Because Sirens Are Not Enough: Emergency Sounds, Environmental Crisis, and the Control of Wild- and Human-Life in Times of Disaster Capitalism Ben Safran (Temple University), “Art Music” as Nonviolent Direct Action for Environmental Justice: An Autoethnographic Case Study Karine Aguiar S. Saunier (University of Campinas), Gambás from Maués: Resistance, Eco-Spirituality and Environmental Activism of a Musical Culture in the Amazon Rainforest Thomas Ciufo (Mount Holyoke College), Teaching Acoustic Ecology and Sonic Art in the Age of Environmental Crisis Chair: Claudia Calì, Queens College, CUNY The Nature of Sound, Sounding Nature11:40 am —12:20 pm Konstantin Vlasis (New York University), Anthropocentric Sounds: The Sonic Measurement and Preservation of Nature within National Park Systems Joshua Groffman (Southern Connecticut State University), Where I Come From, Rain is a Good Thing: Country Music, Nature, and Community in New York’s Hudson Valley Chair: David McCarthy (Michigan State University) Humanities in a Changing Climate2:45—3:45 pmA presentation by Rebecca Dirksen (Indiana University), Yan Pang (Point Park University), Mark Pedelty (University of Minnesota), and Elja Roy (University of Memphis) Adaptations: Confronting Climate Change Amid COVID-194:00—5:00 pm Roundtable Discussants:Aaron S. Allen, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Mark Pedelty, University of Minnesota; Alexander Rehding, Harvard University; Jeff Todd Titon, Brown University; Denise von Glahn; Florida State University; Holly Watkins, University of RochesterChair: Steven Feld, University of New Mexico Thursday, 7 October 2021 Organological Considerations10:00—11:00 am Althea SullyCole (Columbia University), Organology and Anthropogenic Climate Change Talia Khan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Eco-Organology: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Greening Up of the Guitar Making Industry Chia-Hao Hsu (Curator for Asia, Musical Instrument Museum), Toward a Sustainable Acoustic Ecology: Revitalization of Indigenous Paiwan Flute-Making Chair: Eliot Bates, The Graduate Center, CUNY Indigenous Epistemologies2:00—3:00 pm Birgit Abels (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), Sound Knowledge, Sinking Islands: Music-Making in Micronesia in Times of Crisis (Screening of prerecorded presentation only) Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis (New York City Department of Education), Lonta!: Environmental Sustainability Messages in the Music of Sierra Leone’s Freetong Players Kate Galloway (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Sonic Ecologies, Environmental Monitoring, and Anticolonial Approaches to Listening through Playable Interactive Media Chair: Beatriz Goubert, Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) The Anthropocene and Place3:10—4:10 pm Rowan Bayliss Hawitt (University of Edinburgh), Temporal Affect as Ecocritical Discourse: Sounding Multispecies Temporalities in the UK Folk Music Scene Stephen Lett (Independent Scholar, Norman, Oklahoma), Debts of the Settler’s Tin Ear Andrew Chung (University of North Texas), The Music of New World Coloniality Is Music of the Anthropocene Chair: Russell Skelchy, Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) Friday, 8 October 2021 Composers Forum10:00—11:00 am Lola Perrin (ClimateKeys), An Introduction to ClimateKeys Priya Parrotta (Music & the Earth International), Climate Soul: Climate Change, Song, and the Geopolitics of Deep Feeling Kevin Malone (University of Manchester), “Troubled Waters” Chair: Rebecca Lentjes, Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) Concluding Remarks 11:00—11:15 am