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Inspired by Tibetan Prayer Flags, Steve Heitzeg has created these Ecoscore Peace Flags in honor of music, nature and peace. Heitzeg composed five ecoscores which were silk- screened onto cotton squares, each on its own colored square. Each peace flag consists of these five ecoscores (each 5-inch x 7-inch squares) and a witness square attached to a cotton cord. These ecoscore peace flags were then gently placed in trees.

The composer states: “I have composed these ecoscores in celebration of the music and beauty of the earth and as a plea for peace. The ecoscores are placed in the trees as organic metaphors for our being part of, not apart from, nature. They are meant to be a kind of serene reminder of our need to respect all the diverse voices and species on the earth. In musical terms, a flag is a hook on the stem of a note that determines the action and durational value of the note. So too, these flags will hopefully serve as a kind of musical/political action that will reawaken our human need for compassion and peace.”

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