Caged Bird Screams NAD.2024

George Mason University Sound Art Students | Final Projects | AVT374.001 The sound art students of AVT 374 have created a GPS-assisted virtual sound art festival. To participate you need only install the app, insert your earbuds, and find our sounds! Original audio works by: 01) Celeste Cortes 02) Amani Jefferson 03) Kevin Jones 04) Lexie Keys 05) Bianca Misterio 06) Will Owens 07) Kelsey Pappas 08) Noah Schieber 09) Sara Syarto 10) Diana Vargas Antezana 11) Marcos Velasco 12) Becca Williams supervised by Professor Thomas Stanley (a/k/a Bushmeat Sound) ******************************** "The soundscape makes accessible, audible and thinkable, alternative states of affairs that allow us to rethink and relive the materiality and semantics of the real world through the possibility of sonic life-worlds that include affection, sentiment, fear, and angst and all those things that fall out of objectivity." -- Salomé Voegelin ********************************

Welcome to Sound Walk Tour's first tour! This is a pilot program developed by a history graduate student so if you find it and like it, send me an email! Not recommended for children under the age of 13 The first stop is at Q St NW & 27th St NW, Washington, DC 20007. To get there, I recommend taking the red line to Dupont and either walking or taking the D2 bus to that location.

Like in August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. Thousands of people gathered in Washington DC for the event that commemorated the 1963 civil rights March on Washington and in protest at police violence. Called the Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks - a reference to the death of George Floyd, who died in May after a policeman knelt on his neck for several minutes - it follows renewed protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

​Hydrology explores the diverse sonic properties of aquatic ecosystems that cover over 70% of Earth’s surface. The sounds have been recorded using hydrophones (underwater microphones) in freshwater and marine ecosystems across the planet. The featured soundscapes include snapping shrimp on coastal reefs in the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve of Mexico, melting ice in Norway’s Kvina River and Humpback Whales along the Queensland coastline. This piece also connects with the voices of water protectors and river communities across the world. Hydrology in Washington, DC has been created for the Earth Optimism Summit, April 21-23. Earth Optimism celebrates a change in focus from problem to solution in the area of global conservation with an unprecedented gathering of thought leaders, scientists, environmentalists, artists, civic leaders and international media. Hydrology is created by Leah Barclay Tweet @LeahBarclay for questions

After a severe storm surge in the future, the elevated water table has turned the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden into a marsh habitat. The sunken garden has been colonized with new cacophonous forms of life, making trouble for the garden’s caretaker who maintains the sculptures amid the destabilizing changes. Join the caretaker on this GPS-located fictional audio story that overlays the presently well-groomed Sculpture Garden with the dissonant sounds of future disruption.

CANARIAS DC SOUNDWALK explores the sonic ecologies of the Canary Islands, a volcanic archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Northwest Africa, within the geographic region known as Macaronesia. CANARIAS DC SOUNDWALK presents an itinerary with seven compositions for headphone listening geolocated across chosen locations in Washington, D.C. Each piece is composed with environmental sound materials from each of the islands: El Hierro, La Gomera, La Palma, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, and Lanzarote. This project investigates the vitality of more-than-human entities and realities, aiming to promote less anthropocentric ways of being and thinking. Through different listening strategies and audio technologies, the work concentrates on what usually remains hidden or unnoticed, on the limits and thresholds of perception and attention. The project focuses on the voices and audible presence of animal and plant species, air, soil, water, weather, and landscape formations. Furthermore, it acknowledges the affective power of sounds themselves. CANARIAS DC SOUNDWALK embraces listening as a creative act, a form of attention, and a tool to investigate the world. The project attempts to cultivate intimate sensory encounters that favour affectivity over signification and representation. CANARIAS DC SOUNDWALK is a permanent public invisible artwork available through the Echoes app from September 2021 onwards. **LOCATIONS** Throughout Washington, D.C, the seven chosen locations to experience each piece of the itinerary are: Theodore Roosevelt Island ~ HIERRO The Fern Valley at the US National Arboretum ~ GOMERA Dumbarton Oaks Park ~ PALMA Potomac River Belvedere Viewpoint ~ TENERIFE Glover Archbold Park ~ GRAN CANARIA Kenilworth Park Aquatic Gardens ~ FUERTEVENTURA Rock Creek Park ~ LANZAROTE **INSTRUCTIONS** CANARIAS DC SOUNDWALK is a location-based sound work. You will need a smartphone with an Android or iOS operating system. 1. Download the free ECHOES app on Google Play or App Store. 2. Plug in high-quality headphones. We do not recommend the use of wireless Bluetooth headphones as the compression degrades the audio quality. 3. Within the ECHOES app installed on your phone, navigate to the work CANARIAS DC SOUNDWALK. The audio artwork can run in real-time using your data plan. However, for optimal listening, we recommend that you pre-download the entire project to your phone before setting out to the locations. 4. Follow the map feature to arrive at your chosen destination. 5. Upon arriving at the destination, the audio will begin automatically, and you can listen while walking nearby or find a spot to sit down, relax and listen fully. CANARIAS DC SOUNDWALK is meant to be a screenless aural experience. Explore! Enjoy. **CREDITS** A project by [pablo sanz](https://pablosanz.info), commissioned and produced by the [Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in Washington, D.C](https://www.spainculture.us). Fieldwork and production assistance: Palma E. Christian Martínez. Additional support from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI), the Swedish Arts Grants Committee (Konstnärsnämnden) and the Visby International Centre for Composers (VICC). Special thanks to Garajonay National Park, Teide National Park, and Timanfaya National Park. https://www.spainculture.us/city/washington-dc/canarias-dc-soundwalk/

A walk through parts of silver spring, discussing notable areas within the city with a focus on the emotional connotations that make these areas notable. Start the walk at acorn park, continuing onto the NOAA wave pool across east west highway and to the left, then continuing down east west highway until reaching the metro and take a right, from the metro station go down colesville round for 2 blocks then take a right onto georgia avenue, crossing georgia into downtown center, continue straight through downtown and take a right to see the library a block away, cross wayne avenue to enter into the library.