exploring the role of sound and listening in natural and cultural environments
You are invited to join the World Listening Project, during two soundwalks which happen in Chicago’s East Garfield Park neighborhood on Saturday, August 1. During a soundwalk, people listen to and explore the sounds of their environment, using a score as a guide…facilitated by Dan Godston and Fereshteh Toosi; they are free and open to the public, all ages.
Join us on Saturday, October 14 for Open House Chicago, a citywide architectural festival. NON:op Open Opera Works and the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE) team up with the Chicago Architecture Center to reveal its acoustic dimensions in Aural Architecture: Listening is the Other …
The Midwest Society of Acoustic Ecology invites its members to a summer potluck at the Chicago home of MSAE President, Eric Leonardson and Deirdre Harrison, who serves as WLP Treasurer.
As in past years with special guests Annea Lockwood and Hildegard Westerkamp, this casual gathering will be an opportunity for members to meet established practitioners in the field and get to know other members. This year we celebrate our first potluck since the start of COVID restrictions, and are thrilled it coincides with World Listening Day on Tuesday, July 18, 2023.
We’re excited to introduce you to NY based composer and sound artist Mary Edwards and California based media artist and Full Professor in the Art, Media & Design Department at California State University Kristine Diekman. For those who were unable to attend the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology’s 30th Anniversary global conference, Listening Pasts, Listening Futures, at the Atlantic Center for the Arts this March, this is an opportunity to meet some of its participants and to also hear about the ACA’s Soundscape Field Station residency at Canaveral National Seashore from Mary.
For those who wish to come to the neighborhood early, The Lucky Trikes, Deirdre’s storytelling chamber band will be leading a music storytime with picture books about sound and listening and offering a listening station for all ages at the nearby Touhy Park field house from 6-7 pm.
There is no cost to join us, but please RSVP and sign up to contribute a dish or beverage if you can, and we will send you the address in Rogers Park. There is street parking and a lot nearby, as well as easy access from CTA Red Line at Jarvis or the #147 bus. Please be sure to renew your sliding scale MSAE membership if it has lapsed, and bring prospective members!
Finally, the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology will be making all of the Listening Pasts, Listening Futures presentations publicly available on World Listening Day, in anticipation of the publication of the proceedings later this summer. Enjoy listening!