Lobe Story Telling Series: Earth Cry

Tuesday July 4th | Doors at 7pm

Talk at 7:15pm | Playback at 7:30pm

Earth Cry is a collective of sonic storytellers giving an aural platform to people, communities and cultures who are both facing the brunt of our planet’s environmental wrath, and also fighting back against the politicians and executives responsible for the damage.

This immersive sound piece takes place in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and Mott Haven in the South Bronx, two of the most polluted neighbourhoods in New York City. Against a sound tapestry of freeways, delivery trucks and power plants, as well as recordings capturing the joy, diversity and swagger of each neighbourhood’s street life, community activists explain how decades of racist decision-making has reduced the life-span of the city’s low-income Black and Latino citizens while heating the atmosphere.

It premiered at New York University’s 2023 Pop Conference, the “world’s premier music-writing and popular music studies gathering.”

Earth Cry was created by Geoff Dembicki, Grace Scott, Edo Van Breemen, and Sam Potter.

Read more about the project here.