[LTER-education] Fw: Forestcover this Thursday

[Johnston, Cora Ann (caj2dr)]

This may be of interest to some of your sites - places like Harvard Forest, Hubbard Brook, and Andrews particularly come to mind.
The student presenting this piece is part of a Conservatory that is emerging at VCR: https://www.coastalconservatory.org/#s-about.

If you tune in or share with your community, please let me know!

Best,
Cora


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From: Christopher Luna-Mega <cjl9tx at virginia.edu>
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2020 8:37 PM
To: undisclosed recipients <cj9tx at virginia.edu>
Subject: Forestcover this Thursday

Dear friends,

Violist Danielle Wiebe-Burke, cellist Schuyler Slack and myself on piano and electronics, will be performing the first movement of my most recent piece, Forestcover. This happens on Thursday, August 13th, sometime between 7:30 and 8:30 pm, in a live streamed concert, part of the Crozet Arts Initiative "Art for the People Series", at Pro Re Nata Brewery.

We will be performing the first movement of a piece conceived in collaboration with environmental scientist, Stephanie Roe, and musician / mathematician, Zach Baugher, with the support of UVa's Environmental Resilience Institute through the Graduate Fellows Program<https://eri.virginia.edu/news/2019-eri-graduate-fellows/>. In Forestcover, the musical materials of the viola, cello, piano, and electronics, are derived from data predictive models exploring how forest cover based on biophysical and sociopolitical realities will impact climate as well as ecosystems from 2000 to 2100. The main idea is to explore and compare two scenarios: 1. "Business as usual", in which we face a catastrophic climate change; 2. "A greener world", in which we are able to revert dramatic changes in albedo, temperature and land use, that would give us a chance to re-think the way in which we inhabit our planet. This Thursday, we will be performing the "Business as usual" movement.

Tune in here<https://www.crozetartsinitiative.com> for the live streaming at the time of the event. Hope you can join!!!

Chris







Christopher Luna-Mega
PhD Candidate, University of Virginia
Composition and Computer Technologies
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