Posted by: jonny in Events, Out and About, Performance, tags: Alexis Bhagat, Andrea Callard, Andrea Williams, Annea Lockwood, Catskill, Catskill Point, free103point9, Hudson River, Jamie Davis, Jonny Farrow, Moving Water, NYSAE, Sound Map, Todd Shalom, WGXC
July 5, 2009: 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Catskill Point
1 Main Street
Catskill, NY 12414
United States
Curated/Organized by: free103point9
Join free103point9 for an evening of listening at Catskill’s Historic Catskill Point on the Hudson River. Sound Mapping will feature a live performance from members of the New York Society of Acoustic Ecology (NYSAE), a conversation between artists Alexis Bhagat and Annea Lockwood, and Annea Lockwood’s canonical work “A Sound Map of the Hudson River.” Free admission. Audiences are encouraged to bring picnics. This is a family-friendly event, children are welcome.
This event is presented in conjunction with WGXC: Hands-on Radio in Greene and Columbia Counties, a project of free103point9. Special thanks to Patty Austin, Dick Brooks, and Greene County Economic Development, Tourism & Planning for facilitating the use of Catskill Point.
6 p.m.: Moving Water, New York Society of Acoustic Ecology (NYSAE)
Moving Water is a two-part interactive performance. The first part is a tuning of the audience– NYSAE members will guide participants through “Ear Cleaning” exercises and help to activate their ears for focused listening to the immediate soundscape. In the second part, NYSAE conducts the audience in an improvised sound-making performance, documenting the resulting mixture of gestures and sound in the field of shared space. The audience will be split into groups and instructed to make sounds of varying timbre and texture around the theme of moving water. Through the listening exercises and performance, NYSAE aims to provide the audience with listening tools to take away from the event as well as preparing them for Annea Lockwood’s subtle and beautiful work.
Performers from NYSAE: Andrea Callard, Jamie Davis, Jonny Farrow, Todd Shalom and Andrea Williams.
6:40 p.m.: Introduction and interview with Annea Lockwood conducted by Alexis Bhagat.
7 - 9 p.m.: A Sound Map of the Hudson River: Annea Lockwood, recording, mixing; the Hudson River
A Sound Map of the Hudson River is an aural journey from the source of the river, in the high peak area of the Adirondacks, downstream to the Lower Bay and the Atlantic Ocean; Lockwood traces the course of the Hudson through on-site recordings of its flow at 15 separate locations. Annea Lockwood has recorded rivers in many countries to explore the special state of mind and body which the sounds of moving water create when one listens intently to the complex mesh of rhythms and pitches. The listener will find that each stretch of the Hudson has its own sonic texture, formed by the terrain, varying according to the weather, the season and downstream, the human environment whose sounds are intimately woven into the river’s sounds.
At Catskill Point (July 5, 2009,) interviews conducted by Lockwood about the Hudson River are simultaneously transmitted and accessed by attendees though portable radios with headphones. Note: a version of this project is available on CD through Lovely Music. See: http://www.lovely.com/titles/cd2081.html.
About the Artists
The New York Society for Acoustic Ecology (NYSAE) is a membership organization that advocates listening and promotes public dialogue about the urban sound environment. NYSAE creates and encourages new ways of encountering sound and provides resources and information on acoustic ecology. Through projects, lectures, performances, exhibitions, festivals, publications and broadcasts, NYSAE addresses historical and contemporary local, national and international sound issues. Please visit: www.nyacousticecology.org.
Alexis Bhagat’s work is dedicated to the destruction of authorship and authority through the cultivation of new forms for radically poly-vocal sound, transmission of promiscuous conversation, and obsessive never-ending correspondence. He is the curator of ((audience)), a nomadic festival of surround sound compositions.
Annea Lockwood was born in 1939 in Christchurch, New Zealand where she received her early training as a composer. After completing a B.Mus (hons) she went on to study composition at the Royal College of Music in London, with Peter Racine Fricker (1961-63); at the Darmstadt Ferienkurs fur Neue Musik (1962-63); and with Gottfried Michael Koenig at the Musikhochschule, Cologne, Germany and in Holland (1963-64). Returning to London in 1964, she freelanced as a composer-performer in Britain and other European countries until moving to the USA in 1973. There she continued to freelance and teach, first at CUNY, Hunter College, then, from l982 and at present on the faculty of Vassar College, NY.
During the 1960s she collaborated frequently with sound-poets, choreographers and visual artists, and created a number of works which she herself performed, such as the Glass Concert (1967), later published in Source: Music of the Avant-Garde, and recorded on Tangent Records, then on What Next CDs. In this work a variety of complex sounds were drawn from industrial glass shards and glass tubing, and presented as an audio-visual theater piece. In synchronous homage to Christian Barnard’s pioneering heart transplants, Lockwood created the Piano TranspIants (1969-72), in which old, defunct pianos were variously burned, “drowned” in a shallow pond in Amarillo, Texas, and partially buried in an English garden.
During the 1970s and ’80s she turned her attention to performance works focused on environmental sounds, life-narratives and performance works using low-tech devices such as her Sound Ball (a foam-covered ball containing 6 small speakers and a radio receiver, originally designed to “put sound into the hands of” dancers). World Rhythms (l975), Conversations with the Ancestors (1979, based on the life stories of four women over 80), A Sound Map of the Hudson River (l982), Delta Run (1982, built around a conversation she recorded with the sculptor Walter Wincha, who was close to death), and the surreal Three Short Stories and an Apotheosis (l985, using the Sound Ball) were widely presented in the US, Europe and in New Zealand.
She turned to writing for acoustic instruments and voices, sometimes incorporating electronics and visual elements, in the 1990s, producing pieces for a variety of ensembles: Thousand Year Dreaming (1991) is scored for four didgeridus and other instruments and incorporates slides of the cave paintings at Lascaux; Ear-Walking Woman (1996), for pianist Lois Svard, invites the pianist to discover a range of sounds available inside the instrument, using rocks, bubble-wrap, bowl gongs and other implements; Duende (1997) a collaboration with baritone Thomas Buckner, carries the singer into a heightened state, similar to a shamanic journey, through the medium of his own voice.
Much of her music has been recorded, on the Lovely, XI, ?What Next?/OO Discs, Rattle Records (NZ), Harmonia Mundi, CRI and Finnadar/Atlantic labels. -http://www.lovely.com/bios/lockwood.html
Note: This event will be documented (including videotape.)
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Hey Friends — check out this URL to learn about the Tree Museum that just opened in the Bronx!
Best,
J
tree museum
June 21 - October 12, 2009
Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY
www.treemuseum.org
info@treemuseum.org
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Announcing our next NYSAE meeting — we will meet on Tuesday, June 23, 7pm at the Telephone Bar in the East Village — 149 2nd Ave Btw. 9th & 10th Streets. http://www.telebar.com/
See you there!
JF
Below is a proposed agenda (not necessarily in order):
- welcome new members, announcements, events
- update on “art in odd places” october event
- update on catskill july event
- website review update — website committee
- NYSAE membership funds update
- Robin logo upgrade (print ready)
- archive committee report
- Giant Ear))) update (scheduling)
- Meeting scheduling
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Dear friends,
You are invited to come participate in ISSUE Project Room’s first ever Soundwalk-a-thon on June 7th! Come out and join us, see below for details.
June 7, 2009 — A sonic arts experiment in support of ISSUE Project Room
Sound walks led by artists Anthony Coleman, Betsey Biggs, Kenny Wollesen, Bruce Tovsky, Jonny Farrow amongst others
On the afternoon of Sunday June 7, a group of visionary artists will lead sonic excursions throughout New York as part of a rare live sonic arts experiment — the ISSUE Project Room Soundwalk-a-thon — a fundraiser and collective public inquiry into the connection between urban space and our collective sonic imaginations.
Led and designed by some of New York’s most exciting sound artists and musicians, these walks will take groups of 10-20 people at a time on an intimate journey of sonic discovery to experience our community in a way they may never have done before — through sound. Walks range from meditative deep listening, to sing-alongs, to noise-making walks incorporating instruments, ipods, boomboxes, cell phones, or silence in order to amplify the nuances of our ever-changing soundscape.
Choose your own adventure:
Space is limited!
Sign-up for a sound walk, register by June 6, 2009
Sign-up to sponsor a walker and donate to ISSUE Project Room
All walk participants will be invited to attend the post-walk after-party at ISSUE Project Room, 232 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215, featuring musical performance by Ne(x)tworks, where walkers will be able to share their walk experiences and meet other lead artists. Food will be provided.
ISSUE Project Room Soundwalk-a-thon Committee:
Suzanne Fiol, Zach Layton, Todd Shalom, Andrea Williams, Erin Flannery, Sarah Garvey, Lisa Gwilliam, Jonathan Harris, Isabel Walcott Hillborn, Lawrence Kumpf, Michelle Amador , David Martinson, Anila Groft
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Posted by: jonny in Events, Out and About, Soundbox, Soundwalk, iRadio, tags: Greenpoint, Jamie Davis, LIC, NYSAE, Pulaski Bridge, Soundwalk
Hello Friends:
We are meeting again for another great soundwalk this Thursday, May 21 at 7:15pm — this time we will be lead by Jamie Davis. She has a very interesting route planned out for us.
Here’s the details:
What:LIC/Pulaski/Greenpoint soundwalk (approx. 45mins.) led by Jamie Davis followed by short NYSAE business meeting at an establishment of Jamie’s choosing in Greenpoint.
When: Thursday May 21, 7:15pm
Where: LIC side of Pulaski Bridge walking across to the Greenpoint waterfront — meet on the small Traffic Island in front of the bridge.
How (to get there): The G train station closest to it at 21st St. If you exit onto Jackson Avenue, the Bridge is in view. The 7 train at Vernon - Jackson is also close. When you exit the train, the Bridge is in view. As well, the B61 lets off quite close.
Jamie (the Archive committee leader) also requests that if it is possible to bring any physical items for archiving to please do so.
Also, feel free to bring any recording devices, audio/video/photo for documenting the walk.
Here’s a link to a google map to help you navigate:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=pulaski+bridge,+Long+Island+City,+NY&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=41.903538,82.529297&ie=UTF8&z=16
Lastly, below is a proposed agenda for the quick business meeting.
Hope to see you all there!!!
Best,
Jonny
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NYSAE Meeting Proposed Agenda
Thursday, May 21 (after LIC/Pulaski/Greenpoint soundwalk)
Greenpoint, BK — Meeting venue (TBD)
Agenda:
Welcome new members
Announcements, upcoming performances, exhibits
Summer/Fall Events update
Committee Reports: Web, Archive, Fundraising
Giant Ear))) show updates
Meeting Schedule — leader volunteer
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Howdy Friends:
I am leading a soundwalk on June7 during Issue Project Room’s Soundwalk–a-thon. We will be going into the Prospect Park Ravine ending at the OA Can factory in Gowanus to help Issue Project Room raise money for their new home in downtown Brooklyn. Please visit their site to sign up for my walk and pledge your support.
http://issueprojectroom.org/soundwalk/?id=14
AND — I have other friends and colleagues who are also leading walks, so if my walk does not appeal to you, then, by all means, walk with them. The goal is to raise money! PLEASE SUPPORT THIS VITAL EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC AND PERFORMANCE VENUE — one of a dying breed!!!
http://issueprojectroom.org/ — see the right hand column for a full list of fantastic soundwalks from which to choose!
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Posted by: jonny in Events, Giant Ear))), iRadio, tags: Andrea Callard, Andrea Polli, Bird's Ear View, Giant Ear))), Jonny Farrow, McDOSBEV, Mexico, Mexico City, Owl Sounds, Owls, Rob Peterson, WFAE, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology
McDOSBEV is a ridicuouls acronym for this multi-part show: Mexico City Dispatch/Owl Sounds/Bird’s Ear View — The April 2009 installment of GIANT EAR))) features an Andrea Polli report and recording from the most recent World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) held in Mexico City in March. Also, host, Jonny Farrow will be playing owl sounds, real and imitated, some owl recordings from Andrea Callard, as well as an interview and recordings with artist Rob Peterson concerning his collaborative project “Bird’s Ear View.”
You can tune in on Sunday April 26, 7-9pm on www.free103point9.org
For more info on the Bird’s Ear View project visit: http://www.studiowolkowicz.com/
and Rob Peterson: http://www.danholepond.com
Below is the text of Andrea Polli’s report from the most recent WFAE meeting.
JF
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March 23rd-27th, 2009
Sound Megalopolis hosted by the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology and Conaculta at the Fonateca Nacional in Mexico City
By Andrea Polli
Sound Megalopolis: Sonidos en peligro de extinción was a four-day conference hosted by the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) and the the Fonoteca Nacional in Coyacán Mexico City, the former home of the great Mexican poet Octavio Paz (1914-1998). This event marked the beginning of the newest WFAE affiliate organization, Foro Mexicano de Ecologica Acustica. The Mexican Forum joins a group of 9 affiliate organizations including The ASAE (American Society for Acoustic Ecology, of which NYSAE, the New York Society is a chapter), the AFAE (Australia), JASE (Japan), CASE (Canada), FKL (German-speaking Europe), the UK, Finland and another new affiliate in Greece.
Despite travel warnings due to drug-related violence in the north near Tijuana, I always enjoy an opportunity to visit magical Mexico City: the city of lakes, the city of history unfolding, modern independent Mexico layered over the Spanish empire layered over the buried city of the Aztecs is laid bare in the grand Zocalo, the seat of power of Mexico. The Ciudad de Mexico currently sustains 8 million in the city limit and 22 million in the combined city and surrounding metropolitan areas. The trip was made even more special for providing not only an opportunity to re-connect with friends from the WFAE from al over the world, but to see the beginning of what seems to be a Latin American acoustic ecology movement.
I arrived for the opening ceremony Monday morning on the grounds of the Fonoteca. Fonotecta is a national sound archive for Mexico that already houses an impressive archive. Nigel Frayne, President of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology and Lidia Camacho, General director of Fonateca and President of Foro Mexicano de Ecologica Acustica welcomed a large mixture of students and practitioners inside a ring of news media. The country of Mexico has responded to the UN’s call for environmental initiatives with an increased interest in soundscape. The Mexican cultural organization Conaculta has embarked upon a large scale project in the preservation of the Mexican soundscape and sonic heritage. The project will consist of major soundscape recording projects in each of Mexico’s 31 states. Several states have already been archived at the Fonoteca, and the year 2009 is focusing on the area of Oaxaca. The sounds of the entire project will be put online and made available to the public as an international resource.
Scheduled to embark immediately after the opening remarks was the most amazing event, acoustic ecology pioneer Hildegard Westerkamp led a one-hour soundwalk through our surrounds in Coyacán. I have had the opportunity to go on a soundwalk with Westerkamp in the past, most recently in Hirosaki, Japan for the 2007 WFAE conference, but I had never seen her transform such a large and diverse group, nearly 100 international participants, into a collective listening mind. Through the beautiful setting of the Fonateca, across a busy street and through a large park, no one was speaking, just listening to eachother’s footsteps blending with one’s own, hearing the quietest sounds, the sounds of the music on the gardener’s headphones, the dominance of the sounds of airplanes, the transition as birdsongs fade in while the plane and car engines fade off into the distance. Westerkamp asked us not only to listen, but to focus on listening to the listening. This created in us, having all just come together for the first time less than an hour earlier, a visceral sense of community. We became a community of listeners. After the soundwalk, Westerkamp and R. Murray Schaffer led a discussion that ranged from initial reactions to how listening can bring one to political activism, how listening can move one to designing and creating the soundscape, and how educators might design and lead listening exercises with young people.
There was a wide range of presentations, in both Spanish and English with simultaneous translation, from scientific to strangely poetic. The first day there was a keynote by Derrick de Kerckhove, director of the Culture and Technology MacLuhan Program called ‘Marshall McLuhan on Sound.’ De Kerckhove talked about silence as a forgotten sound and the use of silence to bring one back to the senses. In the discussion, R. Murray Schafer described a series of urban initiatives internationally to create quiet spaces, for example in Linz, Austria.
Throughout the conference there were presentations on new methodologies for the scientific study of changing soundscapes, for example Jose Luis Carles of the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and Andreas Mniestris of the Department of Music Studies at the Ionian University in Corfu. Both of these presentations and others focused on how research can lead to more experimentation, design and even the creation of art projects.
Some projects presented included Luz Maria Sanchez’s soinumapa.net (meaning ’soundscape’ or ’soundmap’ in Basque). This sound map of the Basque region of Spain was sponsored by collaborating organizations arteleku and audiolab nd she presented inspiration from other soundmaps including escoitar.org in Spain, the badiafonia project in Catalonia region of Spain, madridsoundscape.org and of course NYSAE’s NYsoundmap and the soundseeker.org project.
Francisco Rivas of the Fonoteca Nacional presented on the phenomenology of sound, bringing up the difficulties of approaching philosophy in multiple languages when philosophy is based on words. He spoke about the definition of ecology as describing interaction and the importance of a multiplicity of approaches. Again and again the process of listening initiated by Westerkamp in the opening soundwalk came up in presentations, in this case Rivas discussed Pierre Schaeffer’s categorization of hearing into 4 parts: hearing, listening, understanding and deep understanding and Barry Truax’s description of the process of listening. The observation that hearing is an inner process echoed both Westerkamp and de Kerckhove’s presentations.
In addition to panel presentations during the day, each evening featured presentations of artworks, art installations and electroacoustic works, for example Canadian sound artist Eric Powell presented the interactive sound installation Sound.garden.scape: Gastown, Simon Fraser presented a multimedia surround soundscape work Gwesyn, a performance by Canadian sound artist Andrea Dancer and work by students of keynoter Sabine Breitsameter of the Darmstadt Hochschule.
The only downside was that the program was too packed, it was impossible to see everything.
There also was, of course, the city, not only as a rich soundscape in itself, but as a resource. The Laboratorio Arte Alameda at the Bellas Artes section of town hosted an interesting sound installation show called INSIDEOUT that featured David Tudor’s Rainforest, a garden of household objects fitted with small speakers creating a soundscape full of surprise. In the historic Laboratorio Arte building, a former Spanish church, the sounds of Tudor’s work bounced and echoed over the slick gold marble.
I also had the opportunity to make a binaural recording in the Zocalo included with this article. In this recording, you can hear a street musician playing a hurdee gurdee, the massive bells of the Catedral Metropolitana de la Asunción de María, a large group of protesters mixed in with street vendors throughout the square.
Links:
Slide show from the conference proceedings:
http://www.fonotecanacional.gob.mx/flashgallery/flashgallery.html
Images of Hildegard Westerkamp’s Mexico City Soundwalk
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreapolli/sets/72157616240679674/
Abstracts online
in English
http://ponencias.pizzadeveloper.com/?cat=18
in Spanish
http://ponencias.pizzadeveloper.com/index.php?cat=18
Laboratoria Arte Alameda
http://www.artealameda.bellasartes.gob.mx/
March 2009 Zocalo soundwalk:
Found in the beginning of the McDOSBEV Giant Ear))) show form 26 April 2009
Images of the Zocalo soundwalk:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreapolli/sets/72157616241001798/
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Posted by: jonny in slideshow, web content, tags: Andrea Polli, antarctica, butterflies, ear to the ground, earth day, Edmund Mooney, Jonny Farrow, nag's head, penguins, SEED MAGAZINE, soundscapes
Howdy Friends:
Check out this nifty slide/audio show up on the SEED MAGAZINE site. My colleagues Edmund Mooney, Andrea Polli and I have some sounds and photos there of natural soundscapes. ENJOY. http://seedmagazine.com/slideshow/ear_to_the_ground/
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Posted by: jonny in Events, Gallery, Out and About, tags: Jessica Resmond, Jet Lag, Jonny Farrow, Jorge Bachman, MEI.collectiv, Mina Dresden, San Francisco, Valencia
Howdy Peoples –
Please see the copy of this email (BELOW) just sent to me moments ago about a fantastic art opening in my favorite WEST COAST CITY — SAN FRANCISCO, CA! I have some sounds in this show, so if you don’t know my compadres Jorge and Jessica, then you know me, d*mnit! B THR OR B SQR!
Jonny
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Dear Friends and Family,
It is our pleasure to invite you to the opening reception for Jet Lag at Mina Dresden Gallery Saturday, May 16, 6-9pm
Can’t make it to the opening? Show will be up until June 13… however we highly recommend you come at these dates and times for more fun!!
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 16, 6-9pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, June 13, 2-6pm
Don’t feel shy to send the flyer and show information to your friends and co-workers! The more the better.
We look forward to seeing you there.
>Special thanks to all of you who have participated! We really appreciate the support and sense of collaboration!<
Jessica & Jorge
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Jet Lag at Mina Dresden Gallery May 16 - June 13 2009
Exhibition by MEI.collectiv
Exhibition Dates: May 16- June 13 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 16, 6-9pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, June 13, 2-6pm
Gallery Hours: By Appointment
MEI.collectiv www.meicollectiv.com
Mina Dresden Gallery, 312 Valencia @ 14th street, San Francisco, CA 94103 www.minadresden.com
jet lag
“a condition that is characterized by various psychological and physiological effects (as fatigue and irritability), occurs following long flight through several time zones, and probably results from disruption of circadian rhythms in the human body.” [Merriam Webster Dictionary Online]
Jet Lag is a MEI.collectiv exhibition by Jessica Resmond (France, US) and Jorge Bachmann (Colombia, Switzerland) with the participation of neuropsychologist Sabine Gysens (Belgium) and artist Anne Chao (Taiwan). Jet Lag is a multi-media project that uses metaphors from both the air travel experience and neurosciences to investigate social and biological networks. This new installation includes sculptures, digital photography, sound and video by the MEI.collectiv, as well as pictures, videos and sounds emailed by friends and acquaintances from around the world.
Jet Lag addresses the simultaneous freedom and confinement experienced when traveling across time zones. It draws our attention to the strange and suspended “familiarity” of transient spaces and unfamiliar skies, to the forced intimacy of airport security scans and the anonymity of international flights.
About MEI.collectiv: Jessica Resmond is an installation artist from Bordeaux, France. She received her BFA in sculpture from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Jorge Bachmann is a Swiss Colombian multi-disciplinary artist whose work has been shown internationally in Switzerland, Colombia and the US. Sabine Gysens is a neuropsychologist from Belgium with a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University Paris VII, France. She has an interest in art curating and likes to explore the interface between art and science. Anne Chao is an artist and independent curator who lives and works in San Francisco and Taipei. Anne received her MFA from Claremont Graduate University; her work has been exhibited internationally.
http://www.meicollectiv.com/
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Posted by: jonny in Events, Giant Ear))), iRadio, tags: Andrea Callard, Andrea Polli, Bird's Ear View, free103point9, Giant Ear))), Jonny Farrow, McDOSBEV, Mexico City, Owl Sounds, Rob Peterson, WFAE, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology
McDOSBEV is a ridicuouls acronym for this multi-part show: Mexico City Dispatch/Owl Sounds/Bird’s Ear View — The April 2009 installment of GIANT EAR))) features an Andrea Polli report and recording from the most recent World Forum for Acoustic Ecology held in Mexico City in March. Also, host, Jonny Farrow will be playing owl sounds, real and imitated, some owl recordings from Andrea Callard, as well as an interview and recordings with artist Rob Peterson concerning his collaborative project “Bird’s Ear View.”
You can tune in on Sunday April 26, 7-9pm on www.free103point9.org
For more info on the Bird’s Ear View project visit: http://www.studiowolkowicz.com/
and Rob Peterson: http://www.danholepond.com
JF
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