“Listening to the Forest” on May 9: All Welcome!

A young person with a cello engaged in a discussion with a teacher who also has a cello, indoors in a well lit room

All are welcome for a free, family-friendly afternoon of original music on Saturday, May 9, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. at Davis Memorial Hall (3 West. St., Petersham, Mass.).

The program features original music by Music Haven students and composer Matthew Suttor — Program Manager at the Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) — performed by the Haven String Quartet.

Listening to the Forest, a Resounding Nature project in collaboration with Harvard Forest, helps young people listen deeply — to their communities and to the natural world. By uniting music, science, and technology, students transform real forest data into original compositions, giving voice to nature through art.

The compositions draw on the Listening to the Forest mobile app, which turns data from Harvard Forest’s flux towers, biodiversity plots, hydrology stations, and trail systems into site-specific sound.

The program is free and open to the public, presented in collaboration with Yale CCAM and Harvard Forest, with support from Yale Planetary Solutions.