[Fredslist] Listen to the earth

[Joel Chadabe]

Hello Gotham friends,

In the hope that you will support a unique, original, and potentially  
very powerful program for raising awareness of environmental issues,  
I'm writing to you in the last moments of 2009 with words written by  
Mark Moffett, ecologist, prize-winning photographer for National  
Geographic, recipient of the Lowell Thomas Medal from the Explorers  
Club and Rolex. He 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.”

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 engagement 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?

We can focus our attention. We can become involved. We can listen to  
sounds and look at images to connect to the places they describe, and  
with those sounds and images, we can exchange thoughts and ideas, feel  
emotional ties, and gain a deeper feeling for the planet we are so  
dangerously neglecting.

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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