Percussion Meets Environmentalism: A method of performance for environmental awareness

Porter Ellerman

About this exposition

The well-documented climate crisis often looms over our daily lives. As an artist, I often felt frustrated by not possessing tangible means to enact change to help. This research is, therefore, a base for further investigations and performances geared toward percussion-based environmentalism. By examining four distinct pieces selected for their connection, or their possibility to connect to broad or specific environmental issues, and altering variables of performance location, instrumentation, personnel, and the addition of contextual material, this exposition demonstrates one path of many for environmental advocation in music. By focusing on decisions affecting sound creation and including context or subtext within each piece, this exposition gives the reasoning behind the decisions made in each piece’s performance based on modern musical activism and theories of promoting positive behaviors. This research also examines modern musical activism in popular music and the emerging contemporary genre of ecoacoustics. The conclusions of this exposition present the benefits of flexibility and creativity in this method and the importance of audience engagement while addressing the drawbacks of this method in the challenge of behaving sustainably as a modern artist. Lastly, this research highlights the possibility of community interaction to create small-scale environmental change that is also a creative outlet for the emotional impact climate change can have on individuals.

type	research exposition
keywords	Percussion, Environmental Art, Ecoacoustics
date	28/09/2022
published	15/05/2023
last modified	15/05/2023
status	published
copyright	Porter Ellerman
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1746887/1774624
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/koncon.1746887
published in	KC Research Portal
portal issue	1. Master Research Projects

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name	Timbila Music
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name	Marimba
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name	Klaterklanken Festival
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name	Yaqui
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name	Sometimes (Coal Train Song)
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name	Screenshot_20221122_012648
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name	Saguaro
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name	cholla
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name	yucca
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name	Child of Tree
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name	Set up
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name	Monacchi Sonosphere
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name	canna
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name	cactus
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name	Survey PIA
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name	Fragment 2 Melody
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name	Fragment 3 Dissonance
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name	Ending Fragment Secondhand
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name	Secondhand
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name	Secondhand melody 2
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name	Secondhand melody 3
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name	Secondhand melody 4
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name	Claptrap
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name	Klaterklanken setup
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name	Setup
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name	Natural Resources Setup
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name	Nat Res Recyle
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name	Nat Res Recycle
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name	pg. 16 Southam
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name	Natural Resources Solo
copyright	Porter Ellerman
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name	Quintet p1
copyright	Matthew Burtner 2009, BMI
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name	Six Ecoacoustic Quintets - 2. Wood by Matthew Burtner
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name	Quintet Beginning
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name	Quintet Ending
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name	Burtner Timpani
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name	Transformation Burtner
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name	Extension
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name	Jesse Armerding
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