The Bowerbird Collective

Simone Slattery

'Earth Emotions' combines a deeply moving program of music and spoken word to reveal a path from disconnection to connection with nature, instilling hope for a better future. The performance features an incredible program of compositions performed by the Bowerbird Collective, featuring Simone Slattery on violin, Anthony Albrecht on cello and narrated by environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht.  
  
Over the past two decades, Prof. Albrecht has introduced many new words for our new world, providing us with the opportunity to name our Earth Emotions, both positive and negative, and empower us with the vision of a return to harmony with nature.  
  
This performance guides the listener from negative Earth Emotions, such as ‘solastalgia’, to the positive, ‘soliphilia’, and ultimately into a future of reconnection with nature that can be collectively imagined into existence, the ‘Symbiocene’.  
  
‘Earth Emotions’ is a vital philosophical reflection and a thrilling musical exploration of our place in the web of life.  
  
  
About the performers:  
  
The Bowerbird Collective makes art for nature. Their work has received international acclaim, and their ARIA-nominated albums of threatened bird, frog and mammal calls, 'Songs of Disappearance', reached the top of the ARIA Album Charts ahead of Taylor Swift, Adele, ABBA and Ed Sheeran. They have appeared at WOMADelaide, the Woodford Folk Festival, the Canberra International Music Festival, and at Climate Week in NYC. Violinist Simone Slattery is a Churchill Fellow, received a PhD in Music Performance from the University of Adelaide and performs regularly with Australia's finest ensembles. Cellist Anthony Albrecht was Australia's first graduate of The Juilliard School's Historical Performance program and enjoys an international performance career.   
  
For more information visit   
www.bowerbirdcollective.org  
  
Professor Glenn A. Albrecht is an Honorary Associate in the School of Geo-sciences, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He retired as Professor of Sustainability, Murdoch University, in mid-2014. He continues to work as an environmental philosopher and published a book, Earth Emotions, with Cornell University Press in 2019. Earth Emotions was published in French and Spanish in 2020. In numerous publications and public talks over the last two decades, Dr Albrecht has developed the theme of the psychoterratic (psyche-earth), or negative and positive emotional states connected to the state of the Earth. New concepts developed by him are now becoming well established in the international scholarly literature, new research theses and as inspiration for many creative people in the arts. Glenn has appeared at TED talks, conferences and nature forums throughout the world.  
  
Program:  
  
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber - Sonata No. 1 for violin, "The Annunciation", c.1674  
Jessie Montgomery - Duo for violin and cello, Mvts. II & III, 2015  
Peteris Vasks - Castillo Interior, 2013  
Johann Sebastian Bach - Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria, 1741  
Marin Marias - Les Voix Humaines, “The Voice of Humanity”, 1701  
  
50 minutes without interval  
  
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The Deep North Festival Earth Emotions: Philosophy & Music For Nature

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