Who we are
LandscapeMusic.org is the official website of Landscape Music, a network of musical artists and an online publication. Our mission is to deepen public appreciation of the natural world by providing a platform for contemporary composers and performers whose music engages with landscape, nature, and place.
Our members are composers, performers, and performing ensembles who have created and/or performed substantial bodies of work connected to landscape, nature, and place, and for whom inspirations from the natural world are an ongoing focus. Our artists’ work encompasses a wide range of styles and may be notated, improvised, acoustic, and/or electronic.
Featuring both established and emerging voices, Landscape Music is a resource for artist discovery and a catalyst for collaborative projects.
This project was founded in 2015 by composer Nell Shaw Cohen, who serves as Director. To learn more about the foundational ideas behind this website and composers network, check out her columns written for NewMusicBox: Why Landscape Music is More Important than Ever (November 2015) and How Landscape Music Evokes the Natural World (December 2015).
What we do
- Feature members of our network on LandscapeMusic.org in order to connect listeners, presenters, and performers with unique, exciting, and heartfelt music by stylistically and geographically diverse artists who may or may not have achieved national or international visibility. Visit our members’ profiles, and our Facebook, Twitter, Soundcloud, and YouTube, and Spotify playlist, to experience our work online.
- Partner with other performers, ensembles, presenters, arts and environmental organizations, and government agencies to coordinate, curate, and promote concerts and other projects bringing the work of Landscape Music members to the public. View our collaborative projects.
- Publish original, in-depth essays and interviews exploring how and why composers and performers today are responding to landscape, nature, and place, and incorporating experiences of their environment into their creative processes. Our publication has addressed topics such as artist residencies in National Parks, illuminating ideas from science through music, and bringing together musical improvisation and ecology in educational settings.
Get in touch
Are you a composer, performer, and performing ensemble interested in becoming a member of Landscape Music? Please submit an application using Google Forms.
Please use the following form to contact Nell Shaw Cohen, Founder & Director of Landscape Music, with any other inquiries about Landscape Music.
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