exploring the role of sound and listening in natural and cultural environments
NON:op Open Opera Works and Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology are pleased to announce our fourth annual HEAR BELOW: My Pedway Soundwalk, a self-guided soundwalk through the sounding space of Chicago’s underground pedway.
Adapting to the new and unprecedented changes of the coronavirus pandemic, the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology’s series of thematically focused soundwalks in Chicago parks has been realized in a new format. With partial support of Chicago Park District’s Night Out In the Parks arts …
Join us 1-4 PM Sunday, July 15 for a World Listening Day ”Future Listening” soundwalk with Monica Ryan, hosted by Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
We will consider how our action today will affect our wildlife spaces now and in the future. Free and open to the public.
Meet at Miller Woods/Paul Douglas Center for Environmental Education.
Address: 100 N Lake St, Gary, IN 46403, USA
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/175190069843076/
At the southern-most tip of Lake Michigan and the Calumet River, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore offers one of the most bio-diverse ecosystems in the entire National Park Service, located a little over an hour by train from Chicago. The South Shore Line offers affordable commuter train fares to and from the Miller Station. From there, it is a 20-minute walk to the Paul Douglas Center for Environmental Education.
Monica Ryan is a Chicago based sound artist and teacher whose creative work and education interests lie in spatialized sound, ambisonics, and soundscape studies. Her artistic practice and research focuses on issues of listening, time and place; spatial considerations in narrative and storytelling contexts; and manipulation of spatial-timbral relationships in acousmatic sound. She also teaches in the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and Audio Arts and Acoustic at Columbia College Chicago. She holds a MFA, 2005, University of York, York, UK.