Episode Eight: Tanner Watt & Adam Gardner
Adam Gardner is the guitarist for Guster and co-founder of Reverb. Tanner Watt is the Director of Partnerships at Reverb, a nonprofit using the power of music to inspire individuals to take action for people and the planet.
Reverb disrupts typical practices in the music industry by collaborating with musicians, venues, and festivals to create green concert events and shift attitudes toward waste. Through these collaborations, they engage fans and inspire them to take environmental and social action.
52 Hertz host Petrice Jones, Adam, and Tanner discuss the power that music has to bring people together, issues of accessibility in the music industry and environmentalism, and the challenges sustainable music events face in the wake of COVID-19.
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Scientists have discovered that underwater speakers can give dying coral reefs a second chance at life. So if you didn't know that healthy coral reef is noisy, the first time you hear one could be pretty shocking. It's like walking downtown at rush hour. Just trade out car horns and angry cab drivers for the whoosh of the ocean current and the crackles and pops of the coral reefs being cleaned by shrimp and eaten by parrotfish. Turns out the sound of a healthy reef also attracts fish to corals in need of a little TLC. Playing the audio of a thriving reef near a struggling coral doubled the number of fish in the area. You can call it Coral-Chella. It's got the same color scheme and probably a little bit less slime. While the return of fish to dying coral reefs doesn't guarantee the regrowth of the reef on its own, combining this discovery with other conservation efforts like this feels like a promising step forward. And that's some good news. So guys, welcome to the show.
