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Dal Niente + Norman Long,  Friday, December 8, 2023 8:00 PM  9:30 PM Co-Prosperity Sphere3219-21 S Morgan Chicago, IL FREE Dear Friends Thank you all for your support this year. I am honored to have been invited to participate in Ensemble Dal Niente's program at Co-Prosperity tomorrow night. I'll perform a live mix of field recordings from Oakland, San Francisco, Redwood City, Yucca Valley, and modular synthesis exploring the transitions from contested space to alter destiny.   Set I: Ensemble Dal Niente Orlando Garcia,  Escher Variant 1  for flute, clarinet, harp, vibraphone Sarah Nemtsov,  Zimmer IV  for flute, piano, 2 performers, and electronics Set II: Norman Long text and image:  https://www.dalniente. com/all-events/2023/12/8/dal- niente-norman-long

  ALBUM https://normanwlong.bandcamp.com/album/calumet-in-dub EXHIBITION CATALOG Norman-W-Long-Catalog.pdf CALUMET IN DUB I hope this message finds you all well. I am very happy to announce that my new album Calumet in Dub is available for download and CD pre-order. Calumet in Dub is a two-channel mix of an eight-channel sound installation exhibited at the Glass Curtain Gallery in Chicago in 2022. The exhibition focuses on Long’s research-based work delving into the ecology and soundscapes of the Southeast Side of Chicago along the Calumet and Little Calumet River area. Inspired initially by a story that aired on the BBC about the relationship of the Little Calumet River to the history of the Great Migration, Long has investigated how housing, labor, and environmental activism has coalesced in this location and how historic figure, Hazel Johnson considered the “mother of the environmental justice movement,” diligently brought these issues to light. Other inspiration was found in An...

  News and Events Re-Membering/Re-Presencing https://ruralsituationism.bandcamp.com/album/re-membering-re-presencing Happy to announce new music. Re-Membering/Re-Presencing is a two-channel mix of a sound installation exhibited at the Ford Calumet Environmental Center at Big Marsh. Limited edition CDs are available via Bandcamp! Thanks to the folks at Rural Situationism. And thanks to everyone at ThreeWalls and Big Marsh. Exhibition Text: Norman W. Long Re-Membering/Re-Presencing Commissioned by Threewalls as part of the Dreaming of a Future exhibition, Norman W. Long's ReMembering/Re-Presencing is a site-specific multichannel sound installation at the Ford Calumet Environmental Center, located at Big Marsh, comprised of a series of field recording workshops, sound walks and improvised performances at Big Marsh and Marian R. Byrnes Park. In addition, the sound installation includes sonified data taken from plants onsite and data sets of soil, air, water and demographics of the comm...

  Norman W. Long News and Events https://www.eventbrite.com/e/freedom-from-and-freedom-to-7-tickets-288040385547?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb Date and time Sat, Apr 2, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT Location Elastic Arts 3429 West Diversey Avenue  #208  Chicago, IL 60647 FFFT returns for its 6th iteration of sound and movement collaborations! LINEUP Musicians: MIchele Blu https://www.instagram.com/michelebluyoga/?hl=en Tom Borax https://www.ultravioletlight.blue/product/tom-borax Hunter Diamond http://ishmaelalimusic.com/ Carol Genetti https://carolgenetti.info/ Bill Harris https://www.billyharris.net/ Mabel Kwan https://mabelkwan.com/ Joey Meland https://soundcloud.com/joeymeland Allen Moore http://allenmooreart.net/ Luc Mosley https://www.facebook.com/fallingflowerarts Olula Negre https://www.instagram.com/olula_negre/?hl=en Janice Misurell-Mitchell https://jmisurell-mitchell.com/ Ivan ...

Earthly Observatory https://www.saic.edu/saic-galleries/exhibitions August 31–December 3 SAIC Galleries, 33 E. Washington Earthly Observatory explores how we sense, portray, and engage our deep planetary entanglements. Through crafted visions, close listening, and histories of conquest and protest, the exhibition examines the contested relations of ecology to economy, aesthetics to ethics that dominate our experience at one moment, and evades awareness in the next. Drawn from diverse practices across art, design, and the natural sciences, the works invite us to question the ways that we - as one among many earthlings - create our understanding of a manifold world. Featuring: Allora & Calzadilla+Ted Chiang, Jonas N.T. Becker, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Kelly Church, Xavier Cortada, Rena Detrixhe, Paul Dickinson, Mark Dion, Jeannette Ehlers, Terry Evans, Assaf Evron, The Field Museum Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies, Terike Haapoja, Paul Harfleet, Isao Hashimoto,...

Dear Friends, I hope this message finds you well. Thank you all for your support. Sunday July 18 is World Listening Day. A day dedicated to connecting and understanding our environment through listening. Sara Zalek and I will lead a soundwalk at Marian R. Byrnes Park in honor of World Listening Day. Please tune in to World Listening Day - a 24 hour broadcast produced by The World Listening Project in association with WGXC Wave Farm, NAISA Radio and the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology. Tune in here: NAISA Radio https://naisa.ca/naisa-radio/ WGXC Wave Farm https://wavefarm.org/listen World Listening Project  https://www.youtube.com/c/WorldListeningProject/featured WORLD LISTENING DAY - THE UNQUIET EARTH JULY 18, 4PM-6PM MARIAN R. BYRNES PARK 2200 E 103 ST CHICAGO, IL Resurgence: Slag, Moss, Soil, Air In collaboration, Norman W. Long and Sara Zalek will lead a guided soundwalk following the recovery of the soundscape of Marian R. Byrnes Park. We begin with Sonic Self-Care by listenin...

A streaming party extravaganza going down on http:// twitch.tv/hausumountain 8PM central / 9PM east 1) Fire-Toolz (DJ/Plunderphonics set) - 8:05-8:25 2) Pepper Mill Rondo - 8:30-8:45 3) Khaki Blazer - 8:50-9:15  4) Norman Long - 9:20 - 9:45 5) Foodman - 9:50 - 10:15 6) Haley Fohr - 10:20

  Black Space in Winter Recorded as part of the We Series curated by Lia Kohn and Dierdre Hackabay. Bowls, Cymbals and electronics by Norman W. Long. Camera by Sara Zalek. Recorded at Marian R. Byrnes Park January 2021.  

normanlong · Forsythia - March wind, contact mics, forsythia, March 2021

normanlong · Winter Grass Wind, Grass, Contact mics, Late Winter 2021

Re-emergence Marian R. Byrnes Park, previously known as Park No. 562 or Van Vlissingen Prairie, is located in the Jeffery Manor neighborhood. At approximately 135 acres, it is one of the largest natural areas in Chicago. The site includes marsh, wet prairie, prairie, savanna, and woodland and is a great place to observe wildlife including frogs, snakes, birds, and deer. The video provides a brief history of the park from Norman W. Long’s personal perspective as an artist and local resident of Jeffery Manor. Then Long and Zalek guide us in relaxation and sensation exercises to the sounds and sights provided by this diverse ecology.

  Xris Espinoza - Tenor Saxophone, Drums, Percussion Norman Long - Electronics, Percussion Sara Zalek - Electronics, Metal,  Movement

  MOTHERSHIP9 Virtual Exodus: The Great Cosmic Migration PART 11 Featuring - Sura Dupart, Xris Espinoza, Norman Long Greetings Mystic Travelers & Psychic Healers, Curated by Angel Bat Dawid The mythological Mothership9 sound craft took a year to build and is readily equipped to leave racists planet earth. Launching into virtual space on BLACK Friday, join Mothership9 special taskforce of BIPOC Creative Musicians, DJ's, Sound Artists, Scholars, Dancers, the Youth and even a June Tyson Tribute as they explore the nebulous galaxies of Blackness with epic performances, discussions and most importantly community! ALL ABOARD THE MOTHERSHIP9!

  Molly Jones - Tenor Sax, percussion, electronics Norman W. Long - Electronics

normanlong · WLD2 2020 Mixed live on World Listening Day 2020, July 18, 2020. You can read my thoughts on this year’s theme: “The Collective Field”, here. This mix collects the Black spaces and Green spaces of Black neighborhoods on the south side of Chicago, from hydrophone recordings of marsh land at Marian R. Byrnes Park and Big Marsh to picnics at Washington Park and neighborhood parties.  When we say Black Lives Matter then Black space matters, Black Sound matters, then sounds we make, hear, live with and create matter and must not be dismissed or denigrated before they are heard. This is what I tell myself. We need our creativity and sensitivity. I haven’t led  soundwalks since the lockdown. However, I have been recording our prairie and have many recordings of an urban community with a wildlife reserve. The prairie is located between Jeffery Manor, a residential neighborhood in Chicago, IL and a large rail yard. This area is also called the calumet region and was onc...