The World Listening Project has built a public sound installation for the Synesthetic Plan of Chicago, co-curated by Annie Heckman and Daniel Godston, in the Visitor Information Center, at the Chicago Cultural Center (77 E. Randolph Street). My Flickr photostream shows the construction of the WLP’s installation entitled the “Acoustic Mirror of the World.” (more…)
The World Listening Project and Locus Sonus are collaborating to populate the Locustream Map at http://nujus.net/~locusonus/site/streams/map/
You are invited to particpate. How-to info is provided here: http://locusonus.org/w/index.php?page=Locustream+Participation
Musicians and sound-makers are invited to make a drone for 24 hours, from 9 a.m. January 1st until 9 a.m. January 2nd. Medium will pause at 6 p.m. for a performance by Chicago Phonography that will last until 9 p.m. Medium will resume, continuing until 9 a.m. Friday morning. Medium is open invitation as long as you don’t disturb the drone. If you can, please some food to share.
Here’s an update, including three new performances added to my November schedule…
Tune in to Ear Beer, a live experiment in radio and sound webcast on Free Radio SAIC, produced and performed by my Introduction To Sound students.
When: 2:00 to 3:00 pm [US CST (GMT -6)] Thursday, November 6, 2008
Where: http://freeradiosaic.org
We will enjoy hearing your feedback during the show. Please call
312.345.3805 or log-in and use the real-time messaging.
download earbeer flyer (full size 3 MB) designed by Hae-Sung Chung
7:00 p.m., Sunday, August 24 at ELASTIC Arts Foundation
Los Cuatros Demonios is Tomeka Reid (cello), Carol Genetti (voice), Guillermo Gregorio (clarinet), Eric Leonardson (springboard), and Dan Godston (trumpet, percussion)
ELASTIC Arts FoundationRelated links:
http://www.elasticrevolution.com/
http://www.myspace.com/electricjunkyardgamelan
http://www.myspace.com/cellomama
Have a look at the new blog by Sarah Mann-O’Donnell. “Sarah’s Sound Script” blog is an online venue for her poetic writings on sound. Sarah is a philosopher and poet who writes about sound. She’s a newcomer from Philadelphia.
I met Sarah Mann-O’Donnell at two of my concerts last week, and she wrote about:
Monday’s concert at Elastic with Carol Genetti
…and:
Friday’s concert at AV-aerie with Eric Glick Rieman.
I shared the bill with The Young Equestrians and Fred Lonberg-Holm, whom Sarah also wrote about.
Eric Glick Rieman, from Berkeley with his prepared Rhodes piano, will be performing with me this Friday, 8:00 p.m. at the AV-aerie, 2000 W. Fulton Street, Chicago, IL 60612, (312) 850-4030. $8 suggested donation.
This show is a double bill with The Young Equestrians from Brooklyn.
(If you know you can attend, please send me a message. Thanks to the
grief that the City of Chicago has given the folks at the AV-Aerie about
a license, they must promise this is a private party.)
[This is an edited version of the July 28th blog post on my MySpace Music profile, and a follow-up to the July 9th post here.]
On July 1st I began work on new project called the World Listening Project. It was formed by small group of musicians and sonic artists with the initial goal of collecting field recordings from every country in the world and then presenting them on a web-based sound map for the Chicago Calling Festival (October 1–11, 2008). The festival director, Dan Godston cited R. Murray Schafer’s ideas and the World Soundscape Project as inspiration, as well as the work of Bernie Krausse of Wild Sanctuary. We’re excited have Bernie and Katherine providing their ideas and support to the World Listening Project as we begin.
On the left is a proposed logo for the WLP, designed by Noé Cuellar.
Many sound mapping sites and interfaces exist on the web, among those I’ve noted often are SoundTransit, Locus Sonus Audio Streaming Project Map, and the recent Mississauga Sound Map. With this in mind our initial mission, as stated above, is now under discussion. Rather than being solely a field recording and sound map website, a broader range of practices, areas of investigation, and modes of presentation are being considered. The discussion on revising the WLP’s mission is public. Your participation may help if you subscribe to the World Listening Project’s (Yahoo! Group) listserv.
Among the ideas for project may include research and initiating geo-tagged audio projects, such as on Freesound.org. The WLP can promote investigations into the meaning, methods, and relations of information gathering through sound. We are also registering a non-profit organization to support this effort. Happily, we have many noteworthy artists and thinkers participating in this discussion. And, the membership of the listserv continues to grow.
I can mention many more fields of knowledge and practice that the World Listening Project can encompass, but I’d like to keep this post brief. Your participation can play a important role influencing the future of practices involving sound and listening in and of the world. If you wish to learn more about the discussion, or even join the worldlistening Yahoo! Group, please visit this link: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/worldlistening/
I’m working on a new project initiated by Dan Godston called the World Listening Project. What is it?
The goals of the World Listening Project are to collect field recordings from every country on earth, to create a sonic map of the world, and to archive those recordings on a website. Many of the recordings for WLP have already been recorded, but many more will be recorded and archived. The WLP website is a work in progress, and it will be part of the Third Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival (October 1–12, 2008). It will continue to be developed into the future.
The Chicago Calling festival was started by Dan Godston. A Yahoo! Group called worldlisteningproject is where a large and growing number of people are joining together on the Internet to realize the World Listening Project. Among the group’s esteemed members we have the natural soundscape researcher and recordist, Bernie Krausse. He is a musician, ecologist, and author who has been working in the field of natural soundscape recording since 1968. Bernie is author of several books, the latest is Wild Soundscapes: Discovering the Voice of Natural Soundscapes (Wilderness Press, 2002). Visit his website Wild Sanctuary to learn more about his work and media company. Bernie has a sound map here: http://earth.wildsanctuary.com/
In addition to the worldlisteningproject Yahoo! Group, Dan Godston has started a World Listening Project blog: http://worldlisteningproject.blogspot.com/
Use this link to join the Yahoo! Group:
Visit this link for an update on the World Listening Project.
