Evan A. MacCarthy (Director, Elements and Five College Visiting Associate Professor of Music History, UMass) will offer a guided listening session of excerpts of evocatively terrestrial music and sonic art from the last four centuries, ranging from the planetary "harmony of the spheres" or the expansive echoes of open landscapes to the vibrating resonances of tectonic, volcanic, and lithic forces or the whispering murmurs of verdant pastures, gardens, and forests, as well as urgent, musical warnings and mournful laments in the face of anthropogenic change. We will investigate how composers, musicians, and sound artists have found musical meaning in listening and creating on an elemental level with the mineral, organic, and geological features of Earth's long, layered histories.