Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology: A Soundwalk with Eric Leonardson

Soundwalk posterSaturday, October 16, 2:00PM – 4:00PM

Beginning at The Corpse | Green Lantern Gallery this soundwalk engages participants a important facet of theUkrainian Village/Humboldt Park neighborhood that is often ignored: its soundscape. Contact Eric if you would like to learn more, and visit the MSAE webpage.

The Corpse | The Green Lantern Gallery
2542 Chicago Avenue
Chicago IL 60622
 


Dr. Andra McCartney provides this extensive essay on the practice of soundwalks in this recently published web page, Soundwalking Interactions. She begins:

Soundwalking is a creative and research practice that involves listening and sometimes recording while moving through a place at a walking pace. It is concerned with the relationship between soundwalkers and their surrounding sonic environment. The term was first used by members of the World Soundscape Project under the leadership of composer R. Murray Schafer in Vancouver in the 1970s. However, this group was not the first to orient themselves to an area by sound and to record the sounds of the environments that they walked through. This article documents some earlier examples of works produced by walking while audio recording, and situates soundwalk research and creation in relation to soundscape studies. It then explores several contemporary approaches to the practice of soundwalking, and includes an analysis of variations on a soundwalk in Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver; a site which is important since it was the subject of Hildegard Westerkamp’s early article on soundwalking.

Read the full essay here: soundwalkinginteractions.wordpress.com

Hildegard Westerkamp introduces the soundwalk conducted on Friday afternoon, June 18, 2010 in Koli, Finland:

HW soundwalk Koli100619 by eleon

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