Tag: listening

2025 Summer Soundwalk Series

2025 Summer Soundwalk Series

Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE) is excited to announce the 2025 Summer Soundwalks schedule, in partnership with Night Out In The Parks and Chicago Parks District. Between June and September, everyone is invited to explore the art of soundwalking in 6 different public parks. 

TEENS Soundscape Workshop

MSAE President and co-founder Eric Leonardson leads a workshop at the Peggy Notabaert Nature Museum about the Singing Insects Monitoring Program and Magicicada SoundMap Project. Meet in the museum’s Wilderness Walk exhibit on Founders Day, 11:00am-2:00pm Saturday, January 11. This event is a part of 

Listening Across Neighborhoods Presentation Day 2 of 2

Youth participants in Listening Across Neighborhoods present their local neighborhood sound stories for the public. This second of two events takes place at St. Ignatius College Prep (Lead Listening Conference)
1076 W Roosevelt Rd, Chicago 60608.

Initiated by NON:op Open Opera Works, Listening Across Neighborhoods is a new sound and public speaking project in which Chicago youth work together to learn critical listening, audio recording and editing, storytelling, and public speaking as they learn about each other’s neighborhoods and how gentrification impacts the sound and feel of their neighborhoods.

Listening Across Neighborhoods funders and partners:

  • Richard Driehaus Foundation
  • Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
  • Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology
  • Theatre Y
  • Legler Regional Library, Chicago Public Library
  • Build Chicago
  • The Lead Listening Institute
  • St Ignatius College Prep