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SoundwalkSeptember 29, 2018 Experimental Station Environmental Concerns Event From Farmers Market to William Hill's Garden at Hyde Park Academy to 63rd St. Metra Public Newsroom Artists Talk "We’re teaming up with City Bureau; The Fest, curated by Third Coast International Audio Festival; and the Smart Museum of Art to bring contemporary local artist Norman Long to the Public Newsroom (hosted weekly by City Bureau).Long, born and raised Chicago’s South Side, will create a captivating experience that ties sound and place. We’ll be kicking off the evening early at 5:30pm with a soundwalk around Woodlawn. Long’s walks develop over time as well as space and engage audiences by reorienting their sense of site through active listening. Following the walk, Long will lead a discussion about his work and its connections to living in a neighborhood, as well as how the walks tie in with journalistic practices. Then he'll wrap up with a live sound mixing de...

Thanks to 6018N and Roman Susan Gallery for having us! We closed out the day with our version of Pauline Oliveros' "Environmental Dialogues". Our revised text: "Observe your breathing. Gradually begin to focus on the sound and rhythm of an element in the soundscape. Support the sound vocally, mentally or with an object. If you lose touch with the source, wait for another." We began with breathing and movement exercised lead by Sara Zalek. The group then, prompted by signs made by Gwyneth Anderson moved to different interactive installations created by, Gwyneth and Sara, on the beach where the participated in the composition. It's important to mention that even as we were standing, listening, moving that we were part of the soundscape, part of the beach regardless of physical or sonic color lines. And perhaps the best way to challenge them, and to decolonize our listening according to Jennifer Lynn Stoever is to listen to and out for each other and...

Electro-Acoustic Dubcology I - IV by Norman W. Long Electro-Acoustic Dubcology - I - IV The title that refers to ecology: German Ãâkologie : Greek oikos, house + German -logie, study (from Greek -logi?, -logy). 1. The science of the relationships between organisms and their environments. Also called bionomics. 2. The relationship between organisms and their environment, a recording style made popular in Jamaica in the early 1970's called dub and the practice of Acoustic Ecology, studying the relationship, mediated through sound, between human beings and their environment. The recording and composition processes are a combination of acoustic-ecology, electro-acoustic and dub sound practice.  ​ Electro Acoustic Dubcology I (2007) ​ Source recordings from the Cornell Plantations, Arboretum Trail, Pond and Zucker Shrubs. Summer of 2007. Originally I planned to heavily process the sounds and render them to a drone to accompany listeners as they wa...

9pm  Sunday September 2, 2018 Elastic Arts 3429 W Diversey Ave #208 Chicago, IL $10 Electro-Acoustic Dubcology I- IV composed between 2007 - 2012, now packaged together in a limited cassette edition by Reserve Matinee and also available on Bandcamp. The title refers to a recording style made popular in Jamaica in the early 1970's called dub and ecology: German Ökologie : Greek oikos, house + German -logie, study (from Greek -logi?, -logy). 1. The science of the relationships between organisms and their environments. Also called bionomics. 2. The relationship between organisms and their environment. The recording and composition processes are a combination of acoustic- ecology, electro-acoustic and dub sound practice. These compositions are “versions” of his experiences in these spaces and communities. Special Performances by: Angel Bat Dawid Angel Bat Dawid is a Black American Traditional Music Composer, Improviser, Clarinetist, Pianist and Vinyl Addict…Sonic archaeologi...

Thanks to SkyART and ThreeWalls for making this experience possible https://soundcloud.com/normanlong/sets/skyart-sound-class Intro to basics of sound and acoustic ecology based on soundwalks, listening. We started our walk at SkyART where I we did breathing and ear calibration exercises to prepare ourselves for the walk.  We walked to Bessemer Park , stopped there and discussed the first park of our walk and gave brief history of the park and community. I gave a short demo of my recording practice. I attached contact microphones to the fence surrounding the tennis court. We continued our walk, this time we recorded sounds from the park with our recording devices. Next two days I gave our students a brief demo on how I compose for sound and installation. This started my intro to GarageBand. I gave them a brief tutorial uploading files, editing, filtering, mixing, timeline editing, audio fx, instruments, and rendering to disc. Will render and upload to soundcloud.com ...

Thanks to the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology, ThreeWalls, Chicago Park District, Night Out In the Parks, Joann Podkul, Kevin Murphy, Inferno Mobile and everyone who came out on such a hot day. This walk was the third walk I led in the South Deering Community Area this summer. These walks I've lead, performances and recordings of these parks are part of my research for the RaD Lab fellowship I received from ThreeWalls arts organization here in Chicago. The purpose of these walks are to share my creative process, introduce people to the process of soundwalks as a way of understanding their community, their city and their relationship to their neighbors and the environment. I believe listening across borders and cultures is an important part of the process of de-programming and de-colonizing our listening habits which leads to harmful beliefs in ourselves and others.

Angel Bat Dawid - Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Piano, Vocals Adam Zanolini - Bass, flute, saxophone, percussion Norman W. Long - electronics

Soundwalk with Norman W. Long and Sara Zalek at  Big Marsh Park Chicago, IL We began with introductions and a brief talk about the park and soundwalks, what they are and how to do them. Then we went through a few mediation and listening exercises to prepare us for the walk. As we walk out route through the park, we were mindful of our movements, the changes in terrain, plant life and function of the park. For Sara and I we wanted to be mindful of how the park changed since our last walk and our last rehearsal/walk-through. We noticed more paths and more gravel paths making the walking paths less muddy, more native plants where there weren't since our last walk. As we walked Sara began her performance as a creature that combined the waste from the park with the form of a prehistoric life-form.  We stopped along the way to improvise and set an alternate soundtrack to our walk. I used a battery powered "benjolin" style synthesizer i...

Recovering Soundscape Soundwalk Big Marsh 11555 S. Stony Island Ave. Chicago, IL 60617 Saturday June 9 4pm-6pm Soundwalk Lead by and Site Specific Peformance by: Norman W. Long Sara Zalek What is a 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. How do you do it? We start by listening in our own silence. Being mindful of our own consciousness. Then we focus on how we sound as we move throughout the site. We then expand our listening to what is near to us, what just passed us and t...

Environmental Dialogues || performance by Norman Long and Sara Zalek || Saturday January 27 5:30pm Ignition Project Space 3839 W. Grand Ave. Chicago, Illinois Environmental Dialogues Inspired by Pauline Oliveros' Environmental Dialogue (1996 Revision) We offer an extension of this composition (2018 Revision Sara Zalek/Norman W. Long). Resonating the Ignition Project space with breath, rhythm and sublte sounds from little synths. We welcome the new year, reinforcing collective listening, preparing us for new paths and ideas, listening for the unknown and sharing our experience of time.

Norman W. Long Artist Talk Jeffery Manor Branch, Chicago Public Library 2401 E. 100th St, Chicago, IL 60617 Saturday January 20, 2018 3:30 - 4:30 pm You are invited to an artist talk with Norman W. Long, a local artist from the Jeffery Manor neighborhood. This is the first in a series of community engagements with the SouthEast side community as part of his Threewalls RaD Lab Fellowship. Norman W. Long is an artist who works with sound as his medium. His work involves recorded sounds from the Jeffery Manor neighborhood and the larger community of South Deering. Norman will explain how the neighborhood has inspired his work and discuss the many ways he produces his art, from organizing soundwalks, DJing, field recording, instrument making to composing with free software. Norman has received a 3Arts Award for Sound Art in 2012, BOLT Artist in Residence at the Chicago Artists Coalition in 2014-2015, 3Arts Fellowship at AS220 (Providenc...