All entries for Tuesday 10 November 2009

Diary of a Permaculturalist 15: Music for Worms

Follow-up to Diary of a Permaculturalist 14: Greenpeace Scales Parliament from George Ttoouli, Warwick Writing Programme

Just saw notice of this event on email:

Music for Worms

Emily Death will be performing a short concert entitled "Music for Worms" from 6:30pm to 7:30pm on Wednesday 11 November in the Mead Gallery.

For more than 40 years, Darwin conducted experiments to identify the characteristics of earthworms. His experiments included playing music to worms – particularly the bassoon – to assess their ability to hear. In the year of Darwin’s bicentenary, Emily Death will play a short concert of music to the earthworms on show in the Mead Gallery to see if their response to music is any different to that of their nineteenth century forebears.

This event is free of charge.

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This has made me very happy.

I suppose I should make some de-tangentialising comment about attending in order to determine the perma-response of worms to cultural phenomena such as the bassoon.

George Ttoouli : 10 Nov 2009 17:55 |  Tags: Creative Writing Darwin Music Permaculture Worms |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem