Summer Soundwalk Series

role: program director 2022-present

In partnership with the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology, Night Out In The Parks and the Chicago Park District, this program consists of a series of guided soundwalks, workshops and training sessions that engage multi-generational communities in their own neighborhoods. Participants listen to and for cultural and natural features of the landscape. Rivers, streets, residential and commercial dwellings, traffic patterns, human and animal sounds all feature in these soundscapes. Are plants tuning in, contributing, or responding to all this sound? How do we listen culturally, collaboratively, and more carefully? Each walk is led by a local Chicago sound artist who provides a unique thematic focus.

PRESS:

NPR, “Perk up your ears on a guided ‘soundwalk’ in Chicago”