This is an archived event from Culture Days 2022.
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The Earth Singing Project
Digital
Digital & new media Music Nature & outdoors Performance SingingDate and time
This activity runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location
Ottawa, ON
Directions: Please follow the links above to reach Katarzyna Sadej's YouTube channel and playlist, which feature all the released videos for the Earth Singing Project. Please subscribe to keep up to date with Katarzyna's activities!.
Access
Free.
Offered in English, French, and Polish.
About
Welcome to a digital exhibit of Katarzyna Sadej's ongoing environmental art project “Earth Singing”, which has been filmed in Canada and abroad. Katarzyna is an international mezzo-soprano, multi-media artist, wildlife activist, and creator. Through "Earth Singing" she creates music videos in spectacular natural locations. She has been finding beautiful landscapes around the world and recording herself singing live within them. Canadian pianist Nadia Boucher has beautifully provided the pre-recorded piano tracks to mount onto the live singing for the full-scale music videos.
"Earth Singing" is a showcase of music, our planet and its environmental vulnerabilities, the raw human instrument (through live singing), and the raw acoustics found in nature. The goal of the creator is that this showcase can help inspire a respect for our planet's fragile beauty and raise awareness for various eco-systems.
As a proud Canadian, Katarzyna hopes to inspire people to be more connected with nature, to go and discover these wild Canadian landscapes themselves, and to be mindful of how they impact the earth through everyday actions. People become aware of eco-systems when they engage with them: when they visit and appreciate the animals and landscapes in these locations. Awareness breeds the inspiration to care for and protect Earth’s wild places.
For the Earth Singing Project, Katarzyna is the singer and sole producer, including cinematography, drone photography, nature photography, audio recording and video editing.
Links
- The Earth Singing Playlist youtube.com
- Earth Singing in the Canadian Fall Season youtu.be
- Earth Singing in the Canadian Prairies youtu.be
- Earth Singing With A Melting Glacier youtu.be
Organizer
Katarzyna Sadej
Canadian Mezzo-Soprano Katarzyna Sadej was born in Wrocław, Poland. Her international, eclectic career spans concert, opera, chamber music, oratorio, film, recital and voice over performance. Katarzyna has also performed numerous world premieres and has had over a dozen new works composed especially for her. Besides singing in many world renowned concert halls throughout her career, she is also a supporter of wildlife, conservation and the environment.
When COVID decimated the performance industry, Katarzyna focused on developing her Earth Singing Project, which entails her venturing into the wild to create music videos in nature, featuring her live singing in the natural acoustics of these various environments.
The aim of Earth Singing, which is ongoing, is to raise awareness for the fragile beauty of our planet - to inspire people to engage with nature themselves, and to act to protect our Earth's wild places.