Tag: World Listening Day

World Listening Day 2020, The Collective Field

This year’s theme, created by Wild Sanctuary Vice President Katherine Krause is “The Collective Field.”

MSAE Summer Soundwalks 2019

MSAE Summer Soundwalks 2019

Midwest Society of Acoustic Ecology is happy to announce its fourth annual series with the Chicago Park District’s Night Out In the Parks program. Break away from your daily routine. Renew your sense of place through mindfulness walks and listening in the parks. Join your neighbors in 

World Listening Day ”Future Listening” July 15 | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore

World Listening Day ”Future Listening” July 15 | Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore

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

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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.

sky, trees, sand dunes, and lake landscape
Indiana Dunes landscape, 2012 photo by Eric Leonardson

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.