Reef Music

The plight of coral reefs is often overlooked. These beautiful ecosystems exist far from our everyday environments, but are suffering nonetheless from our continued use of fossil fuels and the resultant rising ocean temperatures and water acidification.

Reef Music is a collaboration between Multiverse and the Davies Marine Population Genomics Lab to celebrate the work of biologists around the world: striving to understand and safeguard coral populations in the face of climate change.

Reef Music at Climate Hope Concert 2023

Reef Music at the Mosesian
Center for the Arts, 2022

Reef Music during COVID

Science: Marine Biologists Dr. Sarah Davies and Dr. Hanny Rivera of Boston University

Performers: Elizabeth Chladil, piano

Music and Movement: Weronika Balewski of Integral Steps

Film: Slow Life by Bioquest Studios

Music by: Cuong, Debussy, Ostrower, Shirazi, Vine

Reef Music I

In 2018, we collaborated for the first time with Dr. Sarah Davies of Boston University and the Marvento Duo to produce a concert highlighting the secret life of corals, the destructive process of “coral bleaching” that occurs when ocean temperatures rise, and the complicated future that coral reefs face in the anthropocene climate.

Listen to the sound of a healthy reef and its diverse population of fish and shrimp, recorded by Ashlee Lillis of the Woods Hole Institute.

Black Anemones by Joseph Schwantner

performed by the Marvento Duo

Vox Balanae (Voice of the Whale)

performed by the Marvento Duo with Olivia J. P. Harris