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"Musical Ecologies" features singer, songwriter, and scholar Gelsey Bell. The event will be broadcast live from the Old Stone House in Park Slope, Brooklyn on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley, and online at wavefarm.org/listen and on the Wave Farm Radio App (iOS). Due to Covid-19 there will be no in-person audience attendance. Described by the New York Times recently as “one of New York’s most adventurous musicians”, Bell is an active performer as a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist in a variety of settings. She is currently a HARP Artist at the HERE Arts Center, where she is developing a new opera called mɔːnɪŋ (pronounced as “mourning”/ “morning”) inspired by Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us, a book that imagines the natural world without humans. Other recent projects include Meander (2021), a site-specific soundwalk created with Joseph White for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and a new multi-disciplinary collaboration with thingNY. For tonight’s program, Bell will perform new and recent songs and compositions for vocals, daxophone, synthesizer, and other instruments.The program will begin with a conversation hosted by series curator Dan Joseph.