Earth World Collaborative is a creative force generating new works of music, art, film, and literature through collaboration.

Founded in 2018 by composers and organists Joel Peters and Adrian Foster, the collaborative’s activities are centred on immersive story concerts, which integrate electronics, original compositions, projection, lighting, and special effects. These concerts generate a web of satellite projects that allow for innovative collaborations across numerous disciplines.

A satellite project relates either closely or broadly to the central event, creating a kind of collaborative atmosphere that allows one project to inspire the other, and vice versa. For example, the ocean-themed program “Organ Ocean – Waves of Sound” saw the collaborative efforts of Peters and Toronto-based writer André Forget in creating a literary work titled “The Lower Registers” – a fantastical text that plays with the idea of building organs under the ocean.

The collaboration between Peters and Foster dates back to 2014. After learning of their shared interest in music for organ and electronics, they decided to produce a concert together. The result was “In Nomine Lucis,” a program featuring new electroacoustic works juxtaposed with a Renaissance mass setting by William Byrd. Peters and Fosters continued their collaborative endeavours, including an original setting of Electroacoustic Vespers at St. John’s Lutheran Church (Montréal) in the fall of 2016. In February 2018, Earth World Collaborative was officially launched with the concert “Music for the Hydroörganon.”

Earth World strives to produce unique programmatic concerts in immersive environments, making frequent use of artistic lighting, scenography, and sound design in order to bring the programmatic elements to their fullest expression and provide the audience with a multi-sensory experience of the story. They have produced dozens of collaborative projects, including immersive concert productions, short films, music videos, literary works, philosophical essays, and installation art. Earth World has commissioned works from eight composers and have been featured in numerous festivals, including Montréal en lumière, the Canadian International Organ Competition's Grand Organ Festival, Montréal Monochrome, and others.

Each of Earth World's projects is the result of a collective effort involving dozens of collaborators, including Gerald Ens (philosopher), Sarah Ens (writer), André Forget (writer), Amy Hillis (violinist), Vincent Lauzon (writer and composer), Kimberley Lynch (soprano), Abdurahman Hussain (filmmaker), and numerous other talented artists.