Your Night Out at Home: Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology “Sound as Sight at Humboldt/Columbus”

Night Out in the Parks presents:

Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology and Andy Slater’s “Sound as Sight at Humboldt/Columbus.”

This 360 immersive audio recording captures the natural and urban landscapes of Humboldt and Columbus parks. The sounds were chosen based on their availability to merge with one another, exploiting the permeation of the urban and industrial soundscapes into each park’s natural areas. It is impossible to block the sounds of the surrounding neighborhoods so why try to abate them? The cicadas are everywhere… from the pond in Humboldt Park to the 9th hole of Columbus Park’s golf course. The same goes for traffic, copters, boomboxes, footsteps, and rustling in the trees. As a blind person I listen with great detail and my relationship with sound is very personal. I can pinpoint the faintest voice and identify the size and shape of a structure just by listening.