{"id":3035,"date":"2011-03-21T15:51:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T20:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2011-04-07T13:18:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T18:18:21","slug":"sounding-the-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/03\/21\/sounding-the-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounding the land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/some-landscapes.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/threads-across-river.html\">Some Landscapes <\/a>has a great post about landscape artist\/musician Richard Skelton. As evident in works like <a href=\"http:\/\/typerecords.com\/releases\/landings\">Landings<\/a>, Skelton is an artmonk, an eco-process-relationalist extraordinaire, and very much the musical equivalent of the kinds of artists I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~aivakhiv\/sustainable_vision.htm\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Threads Across the River (which follows Scar Tissue in the video below) is beautiful:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xE_f8eLogzY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Music from a Tree, while less process-relational, is enjoyable:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fY-ZoVMwGKM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Or watch them simultaneously for a different experience.<\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/richardskelton.wordpress.com\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Richard+Skelton\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Landscapes has a great post about landscape artist\/musician Richard Skelton. As evident in works like Landings, Skelton is an artmonk, an eco-process-relationalist extraordinaire, and very much the musical equivalent of the kinds of artists I wrote about here. Threads Across the River (which follows Scar Tissue in the video below) is beautiful:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[692399],"tags":[17845,17844,501,17846],"class_list":["post-3035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-soundscape","tag-acoustic-ecology","tag-landscape-art","tag-music","tag-soundscape-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-MX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1225,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/03\/29\/like-a-ufo\/","url_meta":{"origin":3035,"position":0},"title":"like a ufo&#8230;","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"March 29, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"And while we're on a Christian thematic... here are a few beautiful videos set to songs by Sufjan Stevens. Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland: And two more... 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Meanwhile, Climate Ground Zero reports on a fascinating case unfolding in West Virginia's coal country, where tree sitters have halted blasting of a mountaintop by Massey Coal\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Eco-culture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Eco-culture","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/ecoculture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/-bMO66ajBN0\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1098,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/06\/30\/mercy-mercy-me-the-ecology\/","url_meta":{"origin":3035,"position":4},"title":"mercy mercy me (the ecology)","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"June 30, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZPIrevDt22k&hl=en&fs=1& The explicitly ecological piece on Marvin Gaye's What's Going On was Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology), which, like a lot of his music at the time, fuses a clear-eyed realism with an optimistic, gospel-tinged sense of possibility. 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