exploring the role of sound in natural and cultural environments
Midwest Society of Acoustic Ecology is happy to announce its fourth annual series with the Chicago Park District’s Night Out In the Parks program. Break away from your daily routine. Renew your sense of place through mindfulness walks and listening in the parks. Join your neighbors in […]
This year’s theme is LISTENING WITH created by internationally acclaimed sound artist Annea Lockwood.
listening with the neighborhood
at midnight, and again at dawn.
Listening with an awareness that all around you are other life-forms simultaneously listening and sensing with you – plant roots, owls, cicadas, voles – mutually intertwined within the web of vibrations which animate and surround our planet.
The Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology is among dozens of organizations and thousands of people from six continents who have participated in World Listening Day. Help us share and grow participation in this annual event please by adding your information to the World Listening Project’s online participation form.
July 18th is the birth date of renowned Canadian composer, music educator, and author, R. Murray Schafer. His World Soundscape Project developed the fundamental ideas and practices of acoustic ecology in the 1970s. These inform the current, burgeoning interest in our changing acoustic environment. Thus, World Listening Day honors Schafer’s contribution to understanding our world.
