Melding art and music, Bloomington audiences are invited to experience a free public concert featuring the premier of three new compositions by IU Jacobs School of Music students that include environmental sounds along with narration and photography. The performances are part of the opening of a new art exhibit sponsored by Artists for Climate Awareness and the Arts Alliance of Greater Bloomington featuring over 50 pieces from 32 regional artists. A wine reception will follow the performance.
WHAT: Conserve Bloomington Concert and Art Exhibition Opening
WHEN: Friday, May 12, 2023 at 6:00 p.m.
WHERE: Arts Alliance Center in the Bloomington Simon Mall (next to the Foot Locker)
The project is the culmination of one of five Jacobs School of Music Innovation Grants, which are designed to support innovative ideas in performance or research for musicians, scholars and dancers with projects that are collaborative in nature and embedded in the Bloomington community. More information about the project can found here.
Led by trumpet student Aislin Carpenter, the creative seeds for Conserve Bloomington involved a long hike in the IU Research and Teaching Preserve, hosted by an IU Biology Department ecologist. During the walk, students recorded sound, took photographs, and discussed climate change and ecological sustainability. Content from the hike has been woven into the new compositions.
“Conserve Bloomington began as a modest response to the overwhelming sense of climate doom that many of us face on a daily basis,” said Aislin Carpenter, recipient of the inaugural Jacobs School of Music Innovation Grant. “I feel so honored to have been given the opportunity to bring this project to fruition, and I sincerely hope it will encourage people to engage with their natural and musical surroundings.”
Conserve Bloomington is generously funded by the inaugural IU Jacobs School of Music Innovation Grant and the Indiana Arts Commission.
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