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Place is the Space: An Overview of NON:op’s Aural Neighborhoods Sound Trails

What exactly defines a place? How does one come to “know” a space? Is it growing up in a particular neighborhood, knowing it block by block? Is it simply spending time within that space, absorbing, researching, wandering? So many assumptions often made by people adjacent to a place. Why not experience “place and space”.
November 13, 2020/by NON opera

A Broken Contract, Empty Words, and an Unrealized Rebirth

Kameron Locke



Four score and seven years ago our fathers…
November 13, 2020/by NON opera

Aural Neighborhoods: OHC Soundwalks, October 16-25

The economic disparities between different Chicago neighborhoods have been clearly identified and displayed in community activist and photographer Tonika Johnson's Folded Map Project. From the perspective of sound and the field of acoustics, are these inequalities also apparent? For example, is the soundscape different in Lincoln Park and Englewood; Austin and the Gold Coast? How is it different and why?
October 8, 2020/by NON opera

Performing Unmet Hopes: Salvatore Martirano’s L’s GA

Have we secured a new birth of freedom? Abraham Lincoln’s most recognizable piece of political oratory, the 1863 Gettysburg Address, opens with the president’s reminder that the still young nation was “conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
September 8, 2020/by NON opera

You Don’t Remember That, Do You?

It was 1967. You don’t remember that, do you? Probably you weren’t even around then. But I was. And it is one of my memories; what I remember; part of our American Biography; part of what made us all—even you, who might not have been born—what we are.
August 30, 2020/by NON opera

HEAR BELOW Pedway Soundwalk Review

A personal account of HEAR BELOW: Listening to Chicago Underground, a Pedway soundwalk led by Christophe Preissing of NON:op Open Opera Works and Eric Leonardson of the Midwest Society of Acoustic Ecology with Alex Braidwood of Listening Instruments. February 14, 2020
By Sharon Hoyer
May 12, 2020/by NON opera

HEAR BELOW: Listening to Chicago Underground

A Pedway Soundwalk led by Christophe Preissing of NON:op Open Opera Works and Eric Leonardson of the Midwest Society of Acoustic Ecology with Alex Braidwood of Listening Instruments.
February 14, 2020
May 8, 2020/by NON opera