Scales Fine Arts Center, Brendle Recital Hall

The forest conducts a silent symphony of nature. Carbon is banked out of the atmosphere and the salvation of oxygen is slipped back into the air. Every leaf performs its quantum grab from the sun into the ring of sugar that smacks of food. The miracle of medicine is released as aerosols that may touch the sky and resolve themselves as rain. Even the dichotomy of one branch’s growth—of zero and one, our system of binary arithmetic—is an ancient proof…