[Fredslist] Ear to the Earth

[Joel Chadabe]

Hello Gotham friends,

A leader in the field recently wrote:

“Modern ecologists may have reached a limit on how effectively they  
can convey messages to the public, and they may now need to draw upon  
the emotional vibrancy offered by the arts.” - Mark Moffett,  
ecologist, prize-winning photographer for National Geographic

I am a member of Gotham Green and the founder of Ear to the Earth, an  
international network of musicians, composers, sound artists,  
scientists, environmental activists, and members of the public who are  
concerned about the environment. Won’t you please consider making a  
tax-deductible, end of the year contribution to our cause?  Ear to the  
Earth is a program of the Electronic Music Foundation, a New York  
registered charity

For more on Ear to the Earth and our next festival in October 2010,  
please go to:

http://www.eartotheearth.org/

To make a contribution and join the network, please go to:

https://www.cdemusic.org/EMF/Join-Donate.cfm

Environmental sound art can inspire in us an emotional involvement  
with the environmental issues that we face today.  We are all aware  
that we are facing global disruption on a scale that will profoundly  
affect our lives and the lives of our children. Sometimes we ask  
ourselves, well, what can we do?

Here is something we can do. We can focus our attention. We can become  
involved. We can exchange sounds and images to convey the places they  
describe, and with those sounds and images, we can exchange thoughts  
and ideas and feel emotional ties. It is moving to hear the song of  
the Kauai 'O'o, an extinct Hawaiian bird, and realize that it will  
never again be sung.

Thank you for support!

Joel


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Joel Chadabe
President

Electronic Music Foundation
www.emf.org
joel at emf.org

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