Tickets
General: $30
Members: $25
Experience love in harmony this Valentine’s day as we explore the profound beauty of the natural world with Mary Edwards. With her warm presence, the internationally renowned composer and environmental sound artist will take us on a sonic journey inspired by the Arctic and beyond, connecting us deeply with the rhythms of our planet. The pianist will be joined by her quartet to create an intimate evening of love for the natural world.
Crafting immersive compositional soundscapes with cinematic audio, Edwards creates “an ode rather than an elegy” to the transforming Arctic landscape, climate vulnerability, elemental sensuality, and terrestrial/space connectivity. According to Edwards, the power of listening ensures that all sounds have the “potential to be habitable and can be transformative once you get inside them.”
MARY EDWARDS
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Mary Edwards is a composer and environmental sound artist whose interdisciplinary practice encompasses themes of temporality, impermanence, nostalgia, and the natural world that recur throughout her work. She is interested in the invisible architecture and the emotive, historic, cinematic, and spatial properties of sound that are simultaneously intimate and immense.
Her composition Everywhere We Are is the Farthest Place, has been performed and installed in several iterations at Spitsbergen Artist Gallery (Svalbard), Open Source Gallery (Brooklyn), Epsilon Spires (Vermont), The Beyond Listening International Symposium on Sonic Ecologies (CENSE) in Budapest and in a continuing monthly residency at The New York Public Library (NYPL) Jefferson Market Branch.
She has an extended, multi-stylistic discography of solo and ensemble projects. Her writing has been published by Oxford American, Invert/Extant (U.K.), The Mentor that Matters series, The Santa Barbara Literary Journal, and the anthologies, Joy Has a Sound: Black Sonic Visions, Polarlit (Svalbard), and Carpenters: An Illustrated Discography.
She Holds an Interdisciplinary Master of Fine Arts in Sound and Architecture and has been awarded residencies and commissions at the ACA Soundscape Filed Station at Canaveral National Seashore, Headlands Center for the Arts, The Arctic Circle, Wa Na Wari, InSitu Polyculture Commons, The William T. Davis Nature Conservancy, The Beach Institute Savannah, The Grimshaw-Gudewicz Foundation, 429 Architectural Spaces, Condé Nast Gallery and The Joshua Tree Cultural Preservation Center.
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Hamptons Jazz Fest, produced by The Jam Session, Inc., is a series of performances that bring world-class musicians in the fields of jazz, Latin, and world music to a diverse cross-section of populations on the east end of Long Island, held in iconic venues throughout July, August, and September. HJF also stages a Winter Series during the remainder of the year. They present dozens of concerts at no or low cost and collaborate with other non-profit cultural organizations like OLA of Eastern Long Island, the Parrish Art Museum, The Church in Sag Harbor, East Hampton LTV, the Bridgehampton Childcare and Recreation Center, the Shinnecock Nation, and others to engage the diverse groups from the East End in our performance and educational events.
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The Jam Session, Inc. is a not-for-profit production and education arts organization that produces live jazz music, including Latin and world music, through performances, recording, broadcast, and educational opportunities for the people of the East End of Long Island, primarily Eastern Suffolk County. The Jam Session brings the music to the community it serves in various ways, including at partnering venues that are accessible and well served to the public. The Jam Session’s ultimate purpose is to bring these diverse groups together through music and have shared public experiences and thus nourish the roots of the community…its people.