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Recreating the Sounds of Antarctica
With dripping, creaking, flowing, artist Katie Wood and scientist Grant Macdonald build an uncanny aural simulacrum of a melting continent.
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Listening to Plants
Adrienne Adar’s attention to botanical sentience seeks to decenter human perspectives on non-human entities.
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Drawing the Essay
Colter Jacobsen is an artist whose methods, thought processes, aesthetic, and values accord with many poets and their work.
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An Exhibition Turns a Tibetan Art Museum into a Musical Instrument
The World Is Sound at the Rubin Museum asks visitors to listen to Tibetan Buddhist art with their whole body.
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7 Audio Journeys that Let You Escape New York While Walking Its Streets
From an artist-led exploration of Central Park, to a field guide for a toxic waterway, here are seven recommendations for New York City sonic journeys.
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Exploring the New Orleans Village Where You Can Play the Buildings
Opened in the fall of 2016, the Music Box Village is a gathering of artist-created architectural instruments.
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What Did Precolonial Manhattan Sound Like?
An immersive audio experience transports listeners four centuries into the past, when New York was undeveloped and ecologically diverse.
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Penn Commissions Sound Artists to Respond to Landscape Photographs
The University of Pennsylvania commissioned 10 sound artists to respond to 10 landscape photographs in its art collection.
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A Podcaster Crafts Site-Specific Audio Experiences for the Met
Over 10 episodes, Nate DiMeo of The Memory Palace podcast is exploring the historical narratives of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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A Hands-On Experience with Harry Bertoia’s Sonic Sculptures
After his death in 1978, Harry Bertoia was interred beneath one of his most impressive sonic works: a 2,000-pound, 10-foot-in-diameter silicon bronze gong.
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A Flock of Rotary Phones Chirps and Purrs in a Brooklyn Basement
The phones are ringing off the hook in the basement of IDIO Gallery, and no one is answering them.