The Listening Year at Big Walnut Creek

Guest Ensemble: New Morse Code
"The Listening Year at Big Walnut Creek"
Composed by Eliza Brown
Thursday, May 1 at 7:30 p.m.
Green Center, Thompson Recital Hall

The Listening Year at Big Walnut Creek is a musical exploration of the sounds and ecology of a place over the course of a year. From July 2022–June 2023, composer Eliza Brown made weekly field recordings at a site along Big Walnut Creek in the DePauw Nature Park. With the input of scientists, conservationists, arts colleagues, students, alumni, and other community members, Brown composed an hour-long piece of music for cello, percussion, and electronic audio that incorporates and responds to these recordings as it traces the year in sound. Guest ensemble New Morse Code—cellist Hannah Collins and percussionist Michael Compitello—star in this premiere performance, embodying aspects of the creek's soundscape through their instruments as well as the transformative human experience of listening deeply to our environment.

This event is supported by DePauw's Creative School, Institute of Music, Environmental Fellows Program, Ullem Center for Sustainability, Cassel Grubb University Professorship, and Professional Development Fund.

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