<a href="http://www.shannonmorrow.com">Shannon Morrow</a>
My blogs
| Location | Durham, North Carolina |
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| Introduction | In 2006 I began to take an interest in creating compositional ideas that engaged participants in listening to their environments and interacting with nature. As a Deep Listener, I am interested in fostering environmental awareness through the listening sense gate. The Whirligig Music Project was conceived after a visit to Vollis Simpson's Whirligig Farm in Wilson, NC. I was transfixed by the towering structures and sat like a tiny ant at the corner of the field watching the wind engage the giant spinners in a variety of colorful performances. My own experiment began shortly afterwards. The current installation model with which I am working is a series of lightweight spinners installed in natural environments. Participants (musicians currently) engage in the composition by listening with presence in the environment, and responding with sound when the wind blows their assigned spinners. If you would like to read more about my creative music endeavors, here is a link to a recent Indy Arts Award I received. |