Chicago Phonography

Chicago Phonography is an open collective of artists who perform with unprocessed field recordings made in and around Chicago’s urban soundscapes. The performances are unrehearsed real-time compositions, mixed improvisationally by the players in situ. This approach challenges each to listen while creating an electroacoustic experience for our audience, who are invited listen to the new and unusual sound narratives. Listening plays an essential role in this associative and relational process in the creation of artificial soundscapes. This combination of technological and ecological awareness foregrounds how something can be experienced in one place and yet offers a sense of the experience in another, opening awareness to the unlikely and perhaps some deeper sense of life’s interconnections.