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Composer statement
When all that we've been accustomed to in our sweet spot in the universe, when all we've taken for granted from our many thousands of years of climate-stability, when that stability is gone and instead there's a new erratic that's touch and go, unsettled, unresolved, unsure, unknown; - questions happen.
Pianists huddled together searching for information, a sleeping figure collapsed on stage, a space created for audience members to confer, a dynamic soundtrack of interweaving piano parts … shining a light on how an entire civilisation is going to adapt to climate instability has never appeared so vibrant!
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Movement 1
Degree Celsius
Movement 2
In the far east of India the yak hunts for paisang leaves, meanwhile in Manhattan the banker protests the climate protestor
Movement 3
Where What What What When: Citizen Carbon addresses the Czar of Collapse
Five questions for the room
Where are we going?
What do we really want?
What do we need to let go of?
What can we bring back to help us?
When people are listening what will you say?
Movement 4
Be Roger
Noting Roger Perrin; always positive
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Solarpunk is an arts movement that envisions a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community. It produces works to help with imaging futures in which to thrive. The challenge of arranging multiple piano performance is symbolic of the challenge to fully face the changed environment we're presently entering. Solarpunk Symphony uses music and its power to shift emotion as a tool to augment engagement with adaptation; one step along the road.
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