Resounding Earth: A Sonic Landscape

Time: Oct. 14, 2023, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Location: Thornden Park, Syracuse

Augusta Read Thomas (University of Chicago)

Organized by the Society for New Music and the College of Visual and Performing Arts, Resounding Earth inspires a participatory sonic landscape in an open park environment.

Bring a blanket or lawn chair or sit on an historic rock! Bring your bell or temple gong from anywhere in the world & help 'ring in' this community celebration.

Part of the SU Humanities Center 2023-24 Syracuse Symposium's yearlong look at “Landscapes”, Read Thomas’ Resounding Earth is scored for percussion quartet--a four-movement work which calls for more than 500 bells of different shapes and sizes and from different cultures and time periods. Attendees are invited to bring their own bells, contributing to “mini soundscapes” by Christopher Cresswell, Natalie Draper, and Ryan Carter throughout the park before, during and after the performance.

About the composer: Hailed as a “true virtuoso composer” (New Yorker), Thomas is the University Professor of Composition and founding director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition at The University of Chicago. The Pulitzer Prize finalist also was the longest-serving Mead Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1997-2006).

“Everything that we are made of, everything that we know and love, is made from the stars.” - Composer Augusta Read Thomas