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Chicago Phonography

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Performing with sounds recorded in the field of Chicago and vicinity

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. 

Chicago Phonography convened its first public performance on June 16, 2008. Some members of the collective, including me, were involved in starting the World Listening Project and Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology, two nonprofit organizations devoted to the culturally and ecologically complex roles of sound making and listening in our environment. Its performances were often combined and facilitated with public soundwalks in diverse locations including artists’ loft spaces, galleries, public parks, and museums. 

 

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Study Nature, Love Nature

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Autumn Is a Second Spring

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Just Let It Rain

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A Light Wind Swept Over The Corn, And All Nature Laughed In The Sunshine.

Projects

Forest Wilderness

Look Deep Into Nature

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Just Living Is Not Enough

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Adopt The Pace Of Nature

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