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

Rahmani, Aviva

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

Aviva Rahmani

Aviva Rahmani (artist-composer, researcher), Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research INSTAAR), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, U.S.A. Email: [email protected].

AVIVA RAHMANI exhibits and publishes internationally. She is an affiliate with the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder and gained her PhD, with the thesis “Trigger Point Theory as Aesthetic Activism,” from the University of Plymouth, U.K., in a crossover between environmental sciences, technology and studio art. Rahmani received her BFA and MFA at the California Institute of the Arts with a double major in electronic music and media.

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Aviva Rahmani

Aviva Rahmani (artist-composer, researcher), Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research INSTAAR), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, U.S.A. Email: [email protected].

AVIVA RAHMANI exhibits and publishes internationally. She is an affiliate with the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder and gained her PhD, with the thesis “Trigger Point Theory as Aesthetic Activism,” from the University of Plymouth, U.K., in a crossover between environmental sciences, technology and studio art. Rahmani received her BFA and MFA at the California Institute of the Arts with a double major in electronic music and media.

Received: January 01 2019

Online ISSN: 1531-4812

Print ISSN: 0961-1215

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Leonardo Music Journal (2019) 29: 8–13.

https://doi.org/10.1162/lmj_a_01055

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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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