On Monday, October 19 Listening With Singing Insects goes live on the Chicago Park District’s Your Night Out at Home. The 17-minute video introduces and invites people to explore soundscapes of Big Marsh Park, with a focus on identifying the many species of singing insects heard each summer.

We invite you to become citizen scientists and help the Singing Insects Monitoring Program, guided by the audio and visual aids provided by naturalists, Dr. Carl Strang, Negin Almassi at the Sagawau Environmental Learning Center, and Kathleen Soler, founder of the Singing Insects Monitoring Program.

Listening With Singing Insects was recorded with Kathleen Soler at Big Marsh Park, Chicago, Illinois on September 15. The field recordings are mine—some are binaural and heard better with headphones—made on site except for my music, created with granular synthesis from the sound of an Allards Ground Cricket, recorded by Carl Strang.

This video is supported and presented by the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE) and the 2020 Night Out In the Parks program for arts and culture programming. Learn more about the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE) virtual soundwalks program and find more videos at https://mwsae.org/chicagoparks