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Neighborhood Listening Garden Jeffery Manor Public Library Branch, Reading Garden 2401 E. 100th St., Chicago, IL 60617 Installation Closing October 31 I want to thank ThreeWalls’ RadLab/Outside the Walls program for helping me realize this project. I also want to thank, Jeffreen Hayes, Regina Martinez, Lauren Williams, The Chicago Public Library’s Jeffery Manor Branch, Block Club Chicago, Channel 7,  SkyArt, Big Marsh, U of I Extension, DCASE, Lindsey Holbrooke, Angel Bat Dawid, X. Espinoza, Alex Inglizian, Mrs. Norma P. Long and everyone who planted, walked and listened with us! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Saturday I will be playing in a trio with Dan Bitney (Tortoise) and Mat Mehlan ($keleton$) at Elastro A/V Night two of a special series of four live electro/acoustic sound + video performances featuring over 40 local artists. Saturday October

Xris Espinoza - Reeds/Percussion A ndrew Clinkman - Guitar Norman W. Long - Synth/Persussion Recorded at Experimental Sound Studio by Ralph Loza and Alex Inglizian July 21, 2019 Thanks to ESS and Roman Susan Banner art by Gwyneth Zelany Anderson

MSAE Summer Soundwalks: Listening for Resilience Big Marsh Park, Chicago, IL  July 20, 2019 Norman W. Long Sara Zalek Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology Chicago Park District Night Out In the Parks Program Photo/Video by Katie Wood Norman W. Long has been following the revitalization of Big Marsh since 2015. He has done this by recording Big Marsh at several times during the year (when the City allows the public in to the area) and since it has opened as a Bike Park and Nature area. Listening is great tool to determine the health and resilience of this ecology. Since 2016 Norman has collaborated with movement artist and Butoh performer Sara Zalek on soundwalks at Big Marsh Park. They have engaged the park and walkers with dance, improvised music, performance, meditation practice and mindfulness exercises to connect the community to the ecology and soundscape to Big Marsh Park. This years theme is Listening for Resilience. Resilience is defined as:  t

Sensitive Circuits: Listening Ground, June 30, 2019 Experimental Sound Studio As part of the Without Within exhibition, curated by Ruth Hodgins, a collaboration between Experimental Sound Studio and Roman Susan, I organized the soundwalk with performers and artists Gwyneth Z. Anderson and Sara Zalek. We collectively identified the listening hubs and actions/prompts associated with them. Listening as composing. Walking as performing. The sonic diversity of Edgewater. We travel through public and private spaces, an affluent community, public housing, senior housing, supportive housing,  commercial vs residential zones, private cemetary, public park and community gardens and fast food. The walk connects our inner-selves to the soundscape.  We mapped our route through Edgewater withsoundwalk, excercises and listening score lead by Norman W. Long, Gwyneth Z. Anderson and Sara Zalek. Starting at the ESS garden, with stops at Rosehill Cemetary, Clark/Ashland Island, Senn Park

         Program director Chuck Miller hired me in August 1995 as a jazz dj for NPR affiliate WGLT in Normal, IL. I would work two shifts of 3 or 4 hours programming jazz, broadcasting syndicated shows by both Branford and Wynton Marsalis via tape or satellite feed. While I had studied clarinet from middle school through to my 3rd year in college, I had only played jazz in my high school band, where we played jazz, classical, marching band music, salsa and traditional irish folk songs. Like most of the music I had grown to love from punk to jazz, I picked it up and learned about it in a vacuum (due to race, class and location, more on this later), through my own research as a teenager and young adult. So to have programs I could run from NPR and the biggest jazz library I had ever seen, my education grew ten fold in a matter of weeks! I did have constraints due to the format the music director wanted us to use, but I only saw it as a challenge to learn mo

Happy Summer! I want to thank everyone who came out to listen, play and support this work. Summer is here and that means it is soundwalk season. I have several soundwalks I will be leading this summer. There are also performances with several ensembles and collaborators coming up that I am excited about announcing. photo:Sara Zalek Soundwalk: Sensitive circuits, listening ground Sunday, June 30, 2019 at 3 PM – 5 PM Experimental Sound Studio 5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60660 A silent walk focusing on listening to the diverse soundscape of the west Edgewater neighborhood. Led by artist trio N.w. Long , Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson and Sara Zalek . Join us at Experimental Sound Studio at 3 PM to embark; the walk will finish back at ESS around 5 PM. Participants are then welcome to join the group at Roman Susan afterwards to discuss the experience. Norman W. Long is a sound artist/designer/composer based in Chicago, IL. His current w