exploring the role of sound and listening in natural and cultural environments
November’s Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology meeting features a special presentation by Chicago-based filmmaker and UIC professor, Deborah Stratman. The meeting will be held at 1550 N. Milwaukee Ave., 3rd floor, Chicago, IL
Re-post from The Illinois Arts Council (IAC) website: Overview The Illinois Arts Council (IAC) has a long history of support for Illinois’ individual artists. Until this year, the IAC Artist Fellowship Program had continuously provided fellowships to Illinois creative artists for more than 20 …
The World Listening Project has built a public sound installation for the Synesthetic Plan of Chicago, an art exhibition co-curated by Annie Heckman and Daniel Godston, in the Visitor Information Center of the Chicago Cultural Center (77 E. Randolph Street).This Flickr photostream shows the construction of the WLP’s installation entitled the “Acoustic Mirror of the World.”
For the installation WLP members Greg O’Drobinak and Eric Leonardson have built a platform with stereo low frequency transducers underneath. Visitors are invited to touch and stand on it to feel the recorded soundscapes the WLP has collected from its members living around the world.
This idea is inspired, in part, by Ricardo Huisman’s “Super Sonic Sound Scape Shoes.” This blog post on Beat Portal describes his piece. Ricardo’s photo shows a listener standing in the sound shoes, taken at the 2008 Deep Wireless/Radio without Boundaries conference in Toronto
Continue reading Synesthetic Plan of Chicago, June 1—September 30, 2009