Soundwalk in Bronzeville on September 12
join World Listening Project members in a soundwalk around the Michael Reese Hospital campus on Saturday, September 12
Tag: history
A Soundwalk Idea for Chicago’s Bauhaus District by the Michael Reese Hospital Campus
MSAE member Dan Goston writes that the Michael Reese Hospital Campus is an unique piece of Chicago’s great architectural legacy located in its historic Bronzeville neighborhood. Tragically, and even absurdly, the MRH Campus faces what increasingly appears to be demolition by the City of Chicago in order to make for an uncertain future Olympic village. The Gropius in Chicago Coalition and other organizations is attempting to save the MRH. Dan concludes with a list of potential impacts that demolition will have upon the acoustic ecology of the city and region.
Synesthetic Plan of Chicago, June 1—September 30, 2009
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
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