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Leonardo Music Journal
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The Music of the Trees: The Blued Trees Symphony and Opera as Environmental Research and Legal Activism

Publication type: Journal Article
Publication date: 2019-09-20
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ISSN: 09611215, 15314812
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Abstract

The Blued Trees project is a transdisciplinary thought experiment, physically manifested across miles of the North American continent. It melds ideas about music, acoustics, art and environmental policy. Hundreds of GPS-located individual trees in the path of proposed natural gas pipelines were painted with a sine wave sigil. Each “treenote” contributed to an aerially perceivable composition employing the local terrain. The score is the formal skeleton for systemic changes challenging several laws. A mock trial explored how this project might open new directions in legal activism for Earth rights and contribute to an operatic libretto.

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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1162/lmj_a_01055
UR - https://doi.org/10.1162/lmj_a_01055
TI - The Music of the Trees: The Blued Trees Symphony and Opera as Environmental Research and Legal Activism
T2 - Leonardo Music Journal
AU - Rahmani, Aviva
PY - 2019
DA - 2019/09/20
PB - MIT Press
SP - 8-13
VL - 29
SN - 0961-1215
SN - 1531-4812
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@article{2019_Rahmani,
author = {Aviva Rahmani},
title = {The Music of the Trees: The Blued Trees Symphony and Opera as Environmental Research and Legal Activism},
journal = {Leonardo Music Journal},
year = {2019},
volume = {29},
publisher = {MIT Press},
month = {sep},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1162/lmj_a_01055},
pages = {8--13},
doi = {10.1162/lmj_a_01055}
}