UVA’s Coastal Conservatory presents the Coastal Futures Festival, an annual event blending environmental humanities, music, and science. This year the festival will offer three sessions at the Contemplative Commons. 

Research scientists from the Virginia Coast Reserve, Karen McGlathery and Max Castorani, will share breaking environmental science from the Virginia eastern shore. Mary Kuhn, Willis Jenkins and Kathleen King will present new scholarly reflections on coastal futures.

Matthew Burtner will showcase the premiere of Reef Resounding, a new immersive sound work in the Commons' Conservatory. Burtner is Director of Graduate Studies, Professor, Eleanor Shea Professor of Music (Composition & Computer Technologies) 

Ashlynn Manning Teng and Gabrielle Cerberville will premiere new sound artworks commissioned by the Coastal Conservatory. Finally, undergraduate students in UVA’s MICE Ensemble will perform their latest work, Immersion Groove. 

Artist in residence David Rothenberg brings a Colloquim featuring performances of Six Paths to the Music of Nature, and Loon Asylum, performed by UVA graduate students in the Interactive Environmental Media seminar. David Rothenberg is an environmental sound artist, author, GRAMMY Award-winning musician, and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. 

Schedule

2:00 pm - Plant Worlding

Willis Jenkins, “Contemplative: Sciences of Seagrass Attentiveness” 

Karen McGlathery, “Seagrass Restoration at the Virginia Coast Reserve”

Matthew Burtner "Dreams of Seagrass" [excerpt]

Kathleen King, “I’ve Heard the Shore More Deeply; An Eco-poetic Collection from the Eastern Shore”

Mary Kuhn, “The Garden Politic: Global Plants & Botanical Nationalism”

Ashlynn Manning Teng, "Invaded Soundscapes," performed by singers Shaz Andrus, Teresa Hermann, Madeline Holly Sales, Anna Kariel, Ashlynn Manning Teng, Charlie Newman Johnson 

2:45 pm - Reef Resounding

Max Castorani, “Oyster Ecology at the Virginia Coast Reserve” 

Rah Hite, Potable Water

Matthew Burtner, "Reef Resounding" tour of Conservatory immersive sound studio on 4th floor

Gabrielle Cerberville, Driven and Tossed

MICE (Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble), Immersion Groove

Emily Allen, Sebastian Fugle, Brian Lindgren, Max Shavers, Mags Worden, Yining Xu

3:30 pm - David Rothenberg Colloquium 

Six Paths to the Music of Nature and Loon Asylum

Performed by David Rothernberg with students from MUSI 7450 Interactive Environmental Media: Rah Hite, Gabrielle Cerberville, Annie Huang, Qi Shen, Neda Nadim