This session explores the different ways in which music is relevant to environmentalism: how music represents, expresses and uses the natural world as sound, and how music brings people together in virtual/imagined activist communities.

To what extent can music make a difference to this major issue?

Music and Environmentalism

The natural world has inspired music makers across human cultures and histories: composers have been motivated by our planet's oceans, landscapes and animal life to create music which expresses human relationships with the natural world.

Today, we face the consequences of human actions and attitudes towards the natural world in the form of environmental change and the climate emergency. What role does music have in this context?

This session explores the different ways in which music is relevant to environmentalism: how music represents, expresses and uses the natural world as sound (eg compositional techniques incorporating field recordings or environmental data); how music brings people together in virtual/imagined activist communities, and in live performances which have their own environmental impacts.

This session is suitable for students in years 12 and 13.

It was really useful and insightful to what studying the subject is like at Sheffield

Taster session participant

Schedule

Please note that this is an approximate schedule and is therefore subject to change.

• 3.50pm: Log in and get comfortable
• 3.55pm: Welcome and introduction to the department
• 4.05pm: Taster lecture
• 4.50pm: Questions and answers about the taster lecture
• 5pm: Question and answer session about your subject at Sheffield, with an admissions tutor and current students

Contact us

For informal enquiries email tasterdays@sheffield.ac.uk