Neighborhood Listening Garden

by Norman W Long

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Neighborhood Listening Garden is a 2 speaker sound-system and native plant garden installed at the Jeffery Manor Public Library’s Reading Garden in South Deering Community Area in Chicago, IL from September 21 - October 31 2019. The South Deering community area is a former steel industrial area located on the south east side of Chicago and is home to majority Black and Latinx residents. It was the home of Wisconsin Steel Works, originally the Joseph H. Brown Iron and Steel Company, South Works (US Steel), Iroquois Steel and Republic Steel. There are several neighborhoods that make up this community, South Chicago, Jeffery Manor, South Deering and Slag Valley. The two speaker outdoor sound system plays a composition made from recordings from analog synthesizers from his home studio and Elektronmusikstudion EMS in Stockholm, Sweden, Jeffery Manor, Bessemer Park, Calumet Park, Van Vlissingen Prairie and Big Marsh Park.

The garden provides a space for reflection, an alternate mapping of the southeast side of Chicago, inquiry (what does a black/brown community sound like?), ecological restoration and resilience in the face of community disinvestment.

The cover photo is of Blue Aster that began to bloom as Norman was planting the garden in September 2019.

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released November 25, 2019

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field recordings and analog synthesizers

This program is presented in partnership with ThreeWalls, Chicago Public Library, Jeffrey Manor Branch Library and City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events. It is made possible by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, the Alphawood Foundation, and by Helis Foundation with support from Catherine Edelman.

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Norman W. Long is an artist/designer/composer born and raised on the South Side of Chicago.

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