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Inferno’s Sound Re:Creation at Jackson Park [Garden of the Phoenix] November 25th, 2017 (1pm-3pm), hosted by Norman W Long: This SoundWalk and workshop will explore focused listening and sound mapping with mobile phones and iPads in Jackson Park. Meet at Garden of the Phoenix at 1pm. Soundwalk and sound mapping will also explore Wooded Island and (hopefully!) the Bobolink Meadow. 1pm: Soundwalk 2pm: Sound mapping

Angel Elmore – Clarinet Norman W. Long – Electronics, Field Recordings Recorded at Ignition Project Space, September 23, 2017 Performance was part of the closing reception for Van Vlissingen Prairie (Video Album) Installation Long/Elmore Duo improvised with soundscapes from Van Vlissingen Prairie, Jeffery Manor, Big Marsh and Humboldt Park. Performance explores ways of understanding, being and connecting to ecology and the unknown. Through breath, space, memory, time and machines. How time collapses and folds in on itself and triggers new realities and roads to travel. Is it OK to have an imagination in these times? This is a convergence of traditions, non-traditions, experiences and sound making to create other black music.   After listening we realize these convergences happen more than we think. Thanks to Ignition Project Space, Mia Capodilupo and Doug Dewitt

Memory + Imagination + Presence How to be in a place that is new and old? How do I understand this place? How do we understand this place? I. When we do a soundwalk we prepare by noticing our breath, we listen to the closest things around us. Then we walk and listen to changes however slight. Acknowledge how we change the soundscape with each step and how the soundscape changes within Big Marsh. I started listening and recording as Big Marsh changed from a superfund “brownfield” site that was once home to “Slag and Ballast Company”, part of a network of factories, plants and mills for much of the 20 th Century to a remediated natural area and bike park. I think the condition of the soundscape reflects the condition of the community. It was my goal to reintroduce people to a new soundscape that is of the south side of Chicago. Where industry, once the backbone of the economy is gone and the natural ecology being allowed to come back. There maybe...

BIG MARSH PARK 11599 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60607 SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 16, 1PM - 9PM PERFORMANCE - 4PM-5PM Norman W. Long (MSAE) and Sara Zalek (Butoh Chicago) will lead a soundwalk focusing on movement with nature. This performance/walk will deal with themes of repair, recovery and resilience. Norman and Sara will perform a duo of electronic music improvisation and movement as part of the soundwalk. A soundwalk is a guided exploration of a site using listening focused skills. We will listen to how the site sounds, as we are moving through it. I believe that through listening we have a tool to define communities and ourselves. We also can use those tools to shape who we are and where we live. We will be listening for changes, interactions, conditions, weather, traffic, animals, insects, people, vehicles and other factors in what makes a place what it is. Our performances are an example of how we can creatively engage a soundscape through listening, movement, m...

Van Vlissingen Prairie (Video Album) a video and sound installation September 3 - 29, 2017 - Opening Saturday, September 9, 5-7pm at Ignition Project Space, 3839 W. Grand Ave. #1, Chicago, IL 60651 about: Van Vlissingen Prairie (Video Album) is a single channel video installation with projection and speaker placements featuring the sound ecology of Van Vlissingen Prairie within the South Deering community area on the South-Side of Chicago. South Deering is majority African-American and Latinx. Home to the Joseph H. Brown Iron and Steel Company in 1875( to be known later as Wisconsin Steel). South Deering was a major industrial hub attracting Irish, Welsh, and English workers at first, followed by Swedes and Germans. After 1900, new settlers arrived from Eastern and Southern Europe. African Americans and Mexicans came following the civil-rights laws banning discrimination in housing and employment. When the mills began shutting down, the community fell into a deep ...

Photos by Chris Anderson and Norman Long

Some of the things I worked on at AS220. :  AMPLIFIER KIT WASHINGTON  PARK WALKING PATHS RECORDING STUDIO LIVE WINDOW PERFORMANCE DETAIL ATARI PUNK CONSOLE  STUDIO SESSION INTRO TO ARDUINO BENJOLIN SYNTHESIZER KIT Thanks to 3Arts and Alliance of Artist Communities for making this possible

Thanks to AS220, Chris Anderson and Neal Walsh for organizing the soundwalk and workshop and everyone who participated. We had a great crowd and the feedback and reflections were very helpful. It was heartening to know that I can lead a walk like this with so many people I did not know in a city I've never been, with a bad cold and clogged up ears.

Very excited about these programs! This summer I'll be working with Sara Zalek at my new neighborhood park Big Marsh!

Opening next Friday, May 12, at DEMO 🏠 PIEZO: a group exhibition organized by Chicago-based curator Teresa Silva. Featuring work from Holly Cahill (Chicago), Julia Fish (Chicago), Hannah Givler (Chicago|Iowa City), Norman W. Long (Chicago), and Sebastian Aguirre (Chicago) and Tony Koerner (Los Angeles). . . . Work pictured: ​Holly Cahill, Under Constructed, 2013,​ watercolor, ink and graphite on paper, 22.5" x 22.5" A post shared by DEMO Project (@demoprojectspace) on May 3, 2017 at 8:41am PDT

Wild garlic: Contemporary Chicago Darrell Roberts. Stacey Lee Gee. Regin Igloria. Norman Long. Garland Martin Taylor. Yhelena/Michael Hall. Dillon Lemon - opening May 6, 5-7pm Video Van Vlissingen - Flower Norman W. Long At Ignition Project Space A post shared by N.w. Long (@normanwlong) on May 6, 2017 at 6:09pm PDT

In Session Three: Jaclyn Jacunski, Norman Long and Rose Hernandez  Wednesday APR 12 6:30PM Free and open to the public. Join sound artist Norman Long, installation artist Jaclyn Jacunski, and momevent artist Rose Hernandez for the third of of 6 THAWALLS In-Session installments. A remix of the traditional lecture or panel, In–Session is a critical interdisciplinary salon that incorporates reading, conversation, and performance. The salons are focused on a selection from a shared reading list which is compiled based on a theme. Artists, curators and community members curate the In–Session, selecting the reading and the performers. After the conversation on the selection, it is activated by performance—music, song, poetry, dance or movement. Rose Hernandez Rosè is a Chicago-based artist and healer performing through practices of butoh, theater, sound, ritual, and reiki. Using their body Rosè searches for the healing of themselves, their community. Rosè performs ...

FRIDAY MARCH 31 | 9:00 PM Elastro: Radio Trio, Stephan Moore/Ed Osborn, Norman W. Long $10 vanvlissingen (afterburn) - lo res excerpt from normanwlong on Vimeo . The video has imagery directly from the camera as well as spectral analyses (from a simple hand-made device one can attach to a smart phone) of the air quality of the prairie. The video obscures the landscape via the camera focusing on the newly scorched earth and filtered through a spectroscope that analyzes the air quality of the environment. The video features audio recordings mixed with analog synthesizers weaving in and out of the post industrial noise coming from the adjacent rail yard, local residences and the local ecology of birds and singing insects. This project focuses on diversity, restoration, and resilience. The installation challenges notions of landscape by bypassing the pictorial and the beautiful, defining landscape by what it does, how it sounds and exposes how landscape is a complex matr...

http://compoundyellow.com/events/2017/1/28/soundwalk-performancenorman-w-long Soundwalk/Performance Saturday January 28, 2017 12 noon Compound Yellow 244 Lake St., Oak Park, IL, 60302 I'm very happy new announce that I will be working with Compound Yellow (Formerly Southside Hub of Production) on a soundwalk and live electronics performance.   Soundwalk What is a soundwalk? It is a guided exploration of a site using listening focused skills. We will listen to how the site sounds, as we are moving through it. I believe that through listening we have a tool to define communities and ourselves. We also can use those tools to shape who we are and where we live. We will be listening for changes, interactions, conditions, weather, traffic, animals, insects, people, vehicles and other factors in what makes a place what it is. We start by listening in our own silence. Being mindful of our own consciousness. Then we focus on how we sound as we move throughou...

for hyde park by Norman W Long