exploring the role of sound and listening in natural and cultural environments
The Singing Insects Monitoring Program is a community science effort to familiarize people with common sounds of singing insects in the Chicago region, including grasshoppers, cicadas, katydids, and crickets. Building on Dr. Carl Strang’s work documenting the many species within these four types across 22 …
Sep 20, 2025 08:00 AM (CDT). All members are invited to participate! We warmly invite all members to participate in this online event: an important opportunity to connect with the global acoustic ecology community, reflect on the past year’s activities, confirm our affiliate's new Board members …
Join interdisciplinary artist Eliza Fernand for a deep listening scavenger hunt in which we will interrogate our individual and collective value sets and question the usefulness of classification. Participants will enact body-based research, listening to the beach environment through a microphone, then capturing a collection …
What are the sounds of Newton? How do sounds change as one season gives way to another? What sounds represent life here in 2025, and how might Newton sound different in 2050? Let's go for a walk, listen to what is happening now, and imagine …
What are the sounds of Newton? How did Newton sound different 100 years ago, and how might this place sound different in the future? In this activity, we’ll go on a short walk to listen together, gather some sound recordings, and then work on designing …
