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By Sara Freund<\/p>\n

Leafless trees stretch their branches\u00a0toward the gray sky like ageless giants at the Chicago Botanic Garden .<\/p>\n

The trees appear\u00a0frozen still, but\u00a0they are warriors. Some species of oak trees sense when they\u2019re under attack – they detect the saliva of chewing insects and retaliate.\u00a0 The oaks release chemicals to warn their neighbors of an impending attack.<\/p>\n

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Chicago Botanical Garden. (Sara Freund\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Other trees pick up on the cues\u00a0in the atmosphere and respond by increasing toxins, such as tannin, to make their leaves unappealing to clamoring insects. Forests appear quiet in winter\u2014but if you listen, the isolation of the wilderness is deafening.<\/p>\n

As human beings, we are innately attracted to the whispering hum of the wild. Adventurer-composer Stephen Lias<\/a> turns that attraction into song.<\/p>\n

Lias found his identity as a composer by combining his passion for nature and music.\u00a0 He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas, and his music has been performed at conferences and festivals in Texas, Colorado, Sydney, and Taiwan. The National Flute Association Convention, East Texas Symphony, and the Boulder Philharmonic have featured his wilderness music.<\/p>\n

Lias keeps a journals of musical notes, feelings, ideas that fascinate him while in the wilderness, translating emotions\u00a0and the experience of nature into his scores. \u201cThere is a real contrast, two very opposite things happening. The Carlsbad Caverns [in New Mexico]\u2014they are awe-inspiring in their scope. And on the one hand I find I\u2019m aware of my insignificance and smallness. It\u2019s the realization that an avalanche or bear or flood could snuff me out of existence any second,\u201d Lias said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it also does the opposite. It puts me in a position where I have to test my abilities, limits and endurance. I come away from the park with a greater sense of self and personal growth. It\u2019s a sense of self and unimportance of self that interests me.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Gates of the Arctic National Park, Lias ran into a pack of wolves while walking with a park ranger. He sat quietly, writing down the melody of the howling and his rush of emotions while the wolves stayed near\u00a0for a half hour. The score of the music inspired by the wolves \u201cresonated very deeply because it is tied to a natural experience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Over the last six years Lias has served as an artist in residence at national parks such as Rocky Mountain, Glacier, Denali, Glacier Bay and Gates of the Arctic. The idea of residencies at national parks is not new for writers and painters, but Lias is the first composer in residence at many of the parks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started doing this because it entertained me. I\u2019m astonished by the kind of following this has taken on and how the audience responds to this music. They know what I\u2019m talking about in the pieces, they hear these locations and are empathetic to what that means,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In 2012 Lias launched\u00a0a class<\/a> he teaches for composers in the Alaskan wilderness. This year he will work with nine other composers hiking for two weeks in Denali National Park and the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Park in the northern Alaska. The group of composers workshop pieces that help reflect the region’s sound at the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival<\/a> in Alaska.<\/p>\n

Christina Rusnak<\/a>, one of Lias\u2019 previous students, felt an instant connection to his music. During graduate school at the University of North Texas, Lias came to speak about his work and it changed her life. She was so moved by his music it inspired her to compose music inspired by nature. Rusnak applied for her first composer in residence at Denali National Park.<\/p>\n

She continues to work on projects that advocate for the environment, most recently premiering The Life of Ashes<\/a> for the 50th<\/sup> Anniversary of the Wilderness Act. Unlike visual artists or writers, composers develop a piece of music\u00a0that needs a performance to create meaning. Notes on a page aren\u2019t accessible to the general public like a painting or photograph would be, said Rusnak.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs composers we get to have it performed anywhere and everywhere for a lot of people who may not know about it otherwise. When I write a piece I become an advocate and try to inform people about a place,\u201d Rusnak said.<\/p>\n

Writing a piece of music is a different experience for each composer. Stephen Wood<\/a>, also an alumnus of Lias\u2019 workshop and composer living in Atlanta, Georgia, said that the process is deeply personal.<\/p>\n

\u201cHumans are creative beings because that\u2019s what we do. We are all creating something from the moment we get out of bed and even in our sleep. We are creating out days, its not just art,\u201d Wood said.<\/p>\n

Recently, Wood spent some time in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. The majority of the wilderness area is a swamp, so he canoed from one floating campsite platform to the next. Trying to be mindful of his experience in nature, Wood slows down, listens, and meticulously studies the ecosystem around him.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing out into the wild, your day is much slower and time is a whole different perception. You have the time to sit and watch and listen. Listening is by far the most valuable part of going out into nature especially as a composer because we can relate sounds to notes and music. It is such a visual society now and we\u2019ve forgotten how to use our ears,\u201d Wood said.<\/p>\n

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