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RESEARCH
Can poetry be research? And vice versa?
In the face of our planet‘s ecological crisis, we want to regain our footing as musicians, scientists and teachers – by becoming students again. Doing groundwork.
Soil helps us to let go. We cannot pull at blades of grass to make it grow faster; we can only prepare the richest and healthiest soil possible. The rest is done by other forces and that, indeed, is as it should be.
Soil Music publications
Sonic Ecologies in Music
Book chapter soon coming out in: “Eruptive Research – Changing Landscapes on Research in Teaching and Learning.” Edited by Pamela Burnard, University of Cambridge and Elizabeth Mackinlay, Southern Cross University Schmid_Schmid_2025_Sonic_Ecologies
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The future question of how we deal with the climate crisis is becoming the focus of public awareness with understandable urgency. How can musical creativity make these phenomena tangible and thus be “part of the solution”? What specific music teaching scenarios and/or project work are conceivable?
Soil Music For Future
A presentation at Possibility Studies Network Conference 2024, Cambridge (UK). By Silke Schmid (researcher), Andreas Doerne (researcher) Ralf Schmid, (piano). Music: PYANOOK | “Soil Music” released on EDEL / Neue Meister 2023. Watch on YouTube
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ARTTOURIST Magazine
In the GREEN CULTURE Edition, Ralf and Silke Schmid talk about their inspiring trip to California, and Isabell Blattmann, Tim Taylor, and Andreas Doerne introduce the Holistic Compost Lab. (In German)
Interview
Report from an intensive and socially “wild” research and composition stay in the USA.
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