Join the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology, Chicago Phonography, World Listening Project, National Park Service, and the Chicago Park District Stargazers Saturday evening, July 23 at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, as we celebrate World Listening Day 2011.

The event takes place from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. (Central Time).

Chicago Phonography will perform first. The evening soundwalk on Miller Woods trail follows.

More details are posted on the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology website: http://mwsae.org/?p=1480

Among the work of over 150 artists my early efforts in the field of radio, art, and radio art were cited in a new book, Transmission Arts: Artists & Airwaves (PAJ Publications, 2011) by Galen Joseph-Hunter, Penny Duff, and Maria Papadomanolaki.

On Saturday, July 23 free103point9.org Transmission Arts and WGXC: Hands-on Radio (90.7-FM) will hold a book launch with radio art performances. If you are in or near The Spotty Dog in Hudson, New York (I won’t be there myself, but feel free to drop in and tune in).

Visit free103point9 for complete details.

About the book:

Transmission Arts: Artists & Airwaves

(PAJ Publications)

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The Chicago Phonography concert on Airplay is now available online. It was performed as a live broadcast from 4:30–7:00 p.m., Saturday, July 16

Find the blog post here on WNUR and listen via WNUR’s stream link.

COMING UP: Chicago Phonography performs at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore for World Listening Day on Saturday, July 23. Find more information on the website of the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE).

Chicago Phonography is an informal collective that performs with field recordings from around the Chicago land area: www.chicagophonography.org/

“Nature performs, we provide the secretarial services.” R. Murray Schafer

The second annual World Listening Day is on Monday, July 18. I join hundreds and perhaps thousands more people to celebrate and observe this day all through the week.

World Listening Day is being recognized in a substantial, truly global way. Participation last year was phenomenal. Please visit the WLP website to learn more, participate, and subscribe to our Yahoo! Groups and Facebook Group.

On Friday, July 15 I perform with my partner in “sound crime” Anna Friz and her radiophonic installation, Respire during the opening this evening at Audible Gallery at Experimental Sound Studio (ESS).

Opening Reception: 6PM-9PM

Anna’s website: http://nicelittlestatic.com/

ESS website: http://www.experimentalsoundstudio.org/
Respire will be active at Audible Gallery until August 7.

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Polly Ullrich was a new friend and Chicago art critic who died suddenly in a car accident on Wednesday, July 6. Her feature article about sound in art in Chicago, “Making Worlds: Chicago Sound As Sculpture,” in Sculpture Magazine, mentioned important figures and resources in our local community, including my work with Chicago Phonography. With publication of her article, Polly was given support to organize a panel discussion on sound art in Chicago for the annual Art Chicago exposition on Saturday, April 30. She moderated with featured speakers Andrea Polli, Shawn Decker, and Christopher Janney. We enjoyed a nice dinner afterward, and were looking forward to attending the Sound Art Theories Symposium at SAIC, in November. It would have been fun to continue the conversation on sound and its role in the arts. As Duncan McKenzie wrote, “Polly, we miss you already…”

Polly was amazing and her passing is a loss to our art world and local community. She was kind, thoughtful and often set an example that was so blindingly hopeful that it was hard not to follow. I will forever remember her curiosity, interest, enthusiasm, and commitment to fostering a critical community. She will be missed by all of us that knew her and by this community.

Read the rest of Duncan’s post and Polly’s obituary on the Bad At Sports blog: http://badatsports.com/2011/polly-we-miss-you-already/

Here is an Audioboo I recorded at Art Chicago of Polly introducing the panel discussion: http://audioboo.fm/boos/345584-panel-sound-art-in-an-era-of-flow

Baschet Brother’s musical sculpture, a set on Flickr.

Friday, July 1 at 2–3 p.m. 4th floor, in the museum’s gallery experimental musicians Hal Rammel, Eric Leonardson, and Ed Herrmann will play and accompany François and Bernard Baschet’s Aluminum Piano (1962). Free with museum admission.

This performance is a part of the exhibition Motor Cocktail: Sound and Movement in Art of the 1960s
July 1 – October 30, 2011
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Friday, July 1 at 2–3 p.m. 4th floor gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art. Free with museum admission.

Experimental musicians Hal Rammel, Eric Leonardson, and Ed Herrmann will play and accompany François and Bernard Baschet’s Aluminum Piano (1962) in the museum’s gallery.

This performance is a part of the exhibition Motor Cocktail: Sound and Movement in Art of the 1960s
July 1 – October 30, 2011
Curated by Timothy Grundy, Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow

Each month a new set of performers take the stage:

July 29:  Dan Mohr and Adam Vida
Aug 26: Coppice (Noe Cuellar and Joseph Kramer)
Sept 30: Gregory O’Drobinak, Eric Leonardson, and Ed Herrmann
Oct 28: Jim Dorling and Sam Wagster

Performing 7PM

A part of the 11^th Annual SKETCHBOOK: EVOLUTION

Also performing next week Thursday, June 23 and Friday, June 24.

ARTICULAR FACET is a continuation of Julia Miller’s electroacoustic performance project series that began in early 2011 with Joseph Kramer, Noé Cuéllar, Coppice, Andy Ortmann, and Auris.

SKETCHBOOK is Collaboraction’s annual cross-disciplinary performance festival “…featuring the collective talents of more than two hundred pioneering directors, designers, actors, musicians and artists from Chicago and around the country for a jaw-dropping evening of creativity, experimentation, and celebration.”

Facebook: www.facebook.com/collaboraction

The Sounding Out! blog on sound studies has a new post by Maile Colbert on the Soundscape and World Listening Day. Within a Grain of Sand: Our Sonic Environment and Some of Its Shapers features five brief interviews with people active in the effort to define and explore the notion of soundscape.

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