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Home Knowledge Sound Walk Performance Home Knowledge Spectacular, North Branch Projects, Chicago, IL, March 2012 These are the recordings from the sound walk. From the program: Norman Long a workshop on Silence and Listening. I'd like to make a presentation about how we perceive and define space and place through sound. I will do this by organizing a sound walk of the area of the North Branch projects. We will be experiencing the neighborhood through listening. Our route will take us through the commercial area on Lawrence, The North Branch of the River, Eugene Field Park, Gompers Park and the residential points in between.  Many local residents may be familiar with what the neighborhood looks like. I would like for them to focus on how this area sounds, what sounds define this neighborhood and their relationship to this area via sound.

Toronto Soundscape 2006 This is an audio sketchbook for an electroacoustic piece featuring sounds recorded from Church Street in Toronto in October 2006. These pieces will make up a electroacoustic composition based on these recordings. I was inspired to work on these recordings after I had seen Mark Bradford 's paintings at the MCA Chicago. 

North Branch Sound Walk  - 3550 W. Lawrence, CHGO, IL  - Saturday March 17 2012 - 1pm - 3pm A workshop on Silence and Listening. About how we perceive and define space and place through  sound. I will be organizing a sound walk of the area of the North Branch projects. We will be experiencing the neighborhood through listening. Our route will take us through the commercial area on Lawrence, The North Branch of the River, Eugene Field Park, Gompers Park and the residential points in between. 

Sitting meditation, Millenium PK, Chicago with Buddha Machine Drones. Early Spring 2010.

 This was a recording taken in mid-June of 2011. While recording parts of Washington Park, I was able to walk through a few picnics. This is what I heard. I thought this post would be appropriate for the MLK holiday weekend. Washington pk summer picnics by normanlong "> Washington pk summer picnics by normanlong

A recording taken 'round midnight January 1, 2012 from my window. I find this recording similar to the July 4 recording from 2009. I feel that this has a similar existential feel to as my neighbors can be heard ringing in the New Year with their fire-arms.   

Innacitymisfit house mix 2000 Mix was heavily influenced by Larry Levan. However, it was the encouragement from my friends at Tower Records in the mid-90's that got me started making mix-tapes in Chicago before I moved out west. Listening to it now, I enjoy the selection (partly because I had to sell most of those records), not so much the mixing due to the bargain basement gear and skill level. Dj'ng was and still is part of my creative practice. It keeps me sharp and inspired. And yes, like one of my colleagues said when I did a set at the SFAI grad studios ten years ago, "I am playing for myself". I do it because I love the music with hopes that you will too.