Art Heals Earth

Anne-Marie Houy Shaver is a musicologist, flutist, and educator originally from the Texas Hill Country. Her research interests involve ecomusicology, listening practices, and contemporary music/performance. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD in musicology at Arizona State University, where she is a part of ASU’s Acoustic Ecology Lab. She is also receiving training in the Deep Listening Certificate Program. Anne-Marie aims to use acoustic ecology to encourage community engagement, increased sonic awareness, and a connection to the environment. As a performer, she enjoys promoting new music, especially through the use of extended techniques.
 
 In this episode, we discuss:

2:36 – What led to Anne-Marie’s converging interests between music and environment
5:22 – Anne-Marie’s research: applying ecomusicological frameworks to composers' works
7:56 – Representing vs. capturing environmental sounds in music  
9:46 – Anne-Marie’s Deep Listening practice
13:29 – Listening as a practice of compassion that instills inclusion, openness, and awareness  
16:11 – Listening as a mode of meditation 
18:06 – Multi-sensory and embodied listening 
21:02 – How Anne-Marie’s listening practice has affected her performance practice as a musician
24:46 – Hosting an Ecomusicology workshop at Enchanted Rock Park 
28:35 – Anne-Marie’s experience with soundwalking  
34:22 – ASU’s Acoustic Ecology Lab
37:32 – How art helps heal Anne-Marie’s relationship to the Earth
40:21 – A questions that Anne-Marie is asking right now
42:55 – What gives Anne-Marie hope right now 

Follow Anne-Marie’s work on her website.
Check out Arizona State University’s Acoustic Ecology Lab!
For more information on Pauline Oliveros’s Deep Listening, visit The Center for Deep Listening.

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Dr. Mark Pedelty is a Professor of Communication Studies, Affiliate Professor of Anthropology, and Fellow at the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. His research deals with music and sound as environmental communication. In 2012 Mark published “Ecomusicology: Rock, Folk, and the Environment.” Mark published "A Song to Save the Salish Sea: Musical Performance as Environmental Activism” in 2016, a book about environmentalist musicians and movements in Washington State and British Columbia. As part of a linked project, Mark produces, directs, and composes music videos for Ecosong.Net, watershed districts, and environmental nonprofits.

•3:51 – Mark’s journey towards converging his musical and ecological interests
•8:54 – The focus on community in Mark’s research
•14:25 – Musicians as “cultural interlocutors” 
•18:48 –Re-creating a sense of place and locality through music 
•23:32 – Mark’s EcoSong.net music video project
•28:37 – Advice for people aspiring to use their voice to spread awareness of larger issues
•33:10 – The role that listening plays in Mark’s research and musicianship
•41:21 – Bioacoustics and the semiotics of sound
•45:13 – How art helps heal Mark’s connection with the earth
•51:08 – Questions coming up for Mark, where he wants to go from here
•55:12 – What gives Mark hope right now

Follow Mark's Work:
EcoSong.Net (Environmental Music Videos)
A Song to Save the Salish Sea: Musical Performance as Environmental Activism
Ecomusicology: Rock, Folk, and the Environment

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Lisanne’s work as a scientist, minister, and poet reflects the intimate intersection between spirituality and the natural world. Lisanne is a biology professor at University of Northwestern St. Paul, a minister with Mendota Heights United Church of Christ, and a published poet. She holds a Master’s degree in Biology and PhD in Cell Biology and Biochemistry, as well as Master’s Degree in Theology and Religion, and a second PhD in Systematic Theology and Divinity. Her scientific and scholarly research work at the convergence of two seemingly disparate disciplines: Biology and Theology.

In this episode, we discuss:

•3:17 - Where Lisanne’s love of nature and spirituality started, and how she was gradually able to integrate these strands
•9:44 – Lisanne’s journey with finding belonging in an academic world where she “asked broader questions than science allowed.”
•13:07 – Lisanne’s new book: pursuing a philosophy of nature through a faith-based perspective
•18:57 – Nature’s inherent value and the concept of teleology
•22:44 – Lisanne’s poetry practice and how it contributes to her connection to nature
•25:58 – Creating connection and community through writing
•27:44 – Learning to go within through meditation
•35:19 – Being in her garden as her daily meditation practice
•37:31 – Lisanne’s work as a marine biologist
•42:36 – The impact of the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami on Lisanne’s research team
•46:49 – A special visit to a church while trapped in Tokyo
•50:17 – Lisanne’s favorite places in the natural world
•54:27 – Advice for people who have many different passions and interests
•57:01 –How art helps deepen Lisanne’s connection with the Earth
•59:26 – A question that Lisanne is asking right now
•1:02:07 – Lisanne shares a poem with us
•1:05:17 – What is giving Lisanne a sense of hope right now

Some of Lisanne's recent writings:
A Trinitarian Theology of Nature
In Praise of Creation (poetry book)

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Welcome to Art Heals Earth, a podcast that explores how creative expression helps strengthen and heal our human connection with the planet. In this episode, I share the philosophy behind the podcast, the types of episodes to come, and welcome you aboard the journey! New episodes will be released every Monday.

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