Last week, I enjoyed a nice chat with Chicago Tribune Architecture Critic, Blair Kamin. Here’s his article on the positive function of sound in the design and experience of urban spaces. To summarize, rather than bemoaning excessive noise in the city, acoustic ecology studies how sounds function to mediate communication of individuals within their environment.… Continue reading Soundscape of the city is about more than decibels – Chicago Tribune
Category: Teaching
ACRE The Verdant Visit
From July 22-26 I was honored to be one of several visiting artists at the ACRE Summer Residency in a rural landscape near Steuben, Wisconsin. From their website: ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) is a volunteer-run non-profit based in Chicago devoted to employing various systems of support for emerging artists and to creating a… Continue reading ACRE The Verdant Visit
June 18: Listening Around The Corner at TranzitDisplay, Prague
To Co Zni Za Rohem / Listening Around The Corner Thursday 18 June, 2015 18 – 21:30h Galerie Tranzitdisplay Dittrichova 337/9 12000 Praha 2
June 4: Klingt Gut! / Sounds Good! Field Recording Workshop, Hamburg
On Thursday, June 4 I lead a field recording workshop for the Klingt Gut! / Sounds Good! Symposium on Sound, presented by Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and the Audio Engineering Society Hamburg Student Section at the Arts and Media Campus Hamburg, Germany.
May 8: Original Instruments Ensemble at SAIC
Friday, May 8 at 2:30pm – 4:30pm, my Instrument Construction students will conclude the spring semester with a display of, and performances with, their new and original instrument inventions for SAIC students, staff, and faculty at the Leroy Neiman Center. School of the Art Institute of Chicago 37 S. Wabash Avenue Chicago IL 60603
Sound and Listening: Beyond the Wall of Broadcast Sound
On April 15 my article for Volume 22, Issue 1 of the Journal of Radio and Audio Media was published. “Sound and Listening: Beyond the Wall of Broadcast Sound” describes how World Listening Day engages and educates individuals and groups in soundscape awareness, and the socio-aesthetic potential of radio and audio media for communicating and… Continue reading Sound and Listening: Beyond the Wall of Broadcast Sound
Balance-Unbalance 2015: Water, Climate and Place, Reimagining Environments
On March 25–26, I am participating in the pre-conference acoustic ecology workshop and overnight field trip to the Beaver Creek Biosphere Reserve, organized by the American Society for Acoustic Ecology. On March 27–29, I am honored to lead and present these panels and papers in the spectacular conference, Balance-Unbalance 2015: Water, Climate and Place, Reimagining… Continue reading Balance-Unbalance 2015: Water, Climate and Place, Reimagining Environments
In the Media | Sound experts make art of the noise all around
On January 19 Chicago Tribune, columnist Barbara Brotman published this interview with me. Sound experts make art of the noise all around us – Chicago Tribune… http://t.co/2sbgJ4PINK — MSAE (@MidwestSocAE) January 19, 2015 We discussed urban soundscape awareness, the upcoming soundwalk in Ryerson Woods and concert by Chicago Phonography, on Sunday, January 25, 2015 organized… Continue reading In the Media | Sound experts make art of the noise all around
Ragdale Residency | January 2015
In January I am honored to be an artist-in-residence at Ragdale, a non-profit artists’ community in Lake Forest, Illinois. The estate includes live-in studios and a 50-acre prairie. My 25-day residency will provide time for many interests. This includes studio work, writing, class preparation, tour planning, and acoustic ecology. I will lead a public soundwalk… Continue reading Ragdale Residency | January 2015
Team Teaching Award for Eco-Sensing and the Soundscape
In October 2014 Lindsey French and I were awarded our request to team-teach a proposed course called Eco-Sensing and the Soundscape at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, for the 2015-16 academic year. Please visit our course blog: https://ecosensingsoundscape.wordpress.com/ Our course will be offered in the Fall 2015 term and cross-listed with the… Continue reading Team Teaching Award for Eco-Sensing and the Soundscape