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About the program Music and Nature: A Natural History of Listening was written and produced by Philip Blackburn. Web design: Ben Tesch Executive producer, New Media: John Pearson Executive producer: Mary Lee Editor: Brian Newhouse Music and Nature comes to you from the Classical Music Initiative. It is funded in part, by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art. Additional support is provided by Mr. and Mrs. Howard Solomon. Music and Nature is broadcast as part of Think Global, the 2005 public radio collaboration.
Philip Blackburn was born in Cambridge, England, and studied there as a Choral Scholar at Clare College. He earned his Ph.D. in Composition from the University of Iowa where he studied with Kenneth Gaburo and began work on publishing the Harry Partch archives, now completed after 15 years. Blackburn's book, Enclosure Three, won an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. He has been the Senior Program Director for the American Composers Forum since 1991 and continues to compose, build sound-sculptures, perform, and write about things like Partch, Vietnamese music, and the use of sound in public art. He runs the innova record label and the Sonic Circuits International Festival of Music and Art. He received a 2003 Bush Artist Fellowship to begin building a sound park in Belize. | | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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